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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Tinnitus / February 2006deal with tinnitus
Pardon me for jumping in like this.... my father just informed me that he has tinnitus and when i asked him what can be done about the ringing in his ear, he told me that he has been told he has to learn to live with it. surely there are some ways of easing his suffering and I figured this would be the first place to look... any known-to-work suggestions? thanks in advance jazz mann > Pardon me for jumping in like this.... my father just informed me that > he has tinnitus and when i asked him what can be done about the ringing > in his ear, he told me that he has been told he has to learn to live > with it. So I suppose your father's tinnitu is 'new'. I would not take such a laxative attitude in assuming that there is no cure for tinnitus and I examplify to your father that tinnitus can be cut down to the point where it no longer becomes intrusive. Here in China, it is a standard procedure for practically all the new t patients whose cause cannot be found out to go for intravenous injection of blood vessel dilating medicine. YOur father can talk ANOTHER doctor about this treatment. There are blood vessel dilating tablets around. I listed a number of things one can do when all the tech=tech doctors have failed. But I don't intend to list them one more time. You can however go into the archive and see what I have suggested to the patients in this group. Neverthless, tell your father to try out the following simple steps: (1)do away with the pillow or use a 'soft' wrapped towel in such a way that would allow his body to lie flat on bed at night. The idea is to improve blood circulation. (2)talk to a pharmacist and have him prescribe a gingko pill. Try it for a couple of weeks. If there is no reaction, just drop it. FP > surely there are some ways of easing his suffering and I figured this > would be the first place to look... any known-to-work suggestions? > thanks in advance > jazz mann What FP wrote about docs is exactly right. It's a standard doctor's line when they are confronted with something so "complex" as tinnitus. It can be brought about by so many things. Try reading TRT at http://tinnitus.org Get lots of opinions. I would say that most doctors haven't a clue about tinnitus. VB http://www.tinnitusblogger.com FP - How can I search in the Archives for your "new tinnitus sufferer" tips? I would love to read what you have to say, but don't know how to search? Thnks, Sunny I suppose you type fyfpoon and see what you can find from this new group. I usually don't keep what I post. What is your current problem? > FP - > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Sunny I'd really recommend going to www.ezboard.com and go to the tinnitus discussions. There is a wealth of good information for people with tinnitus. There are some very knowledgeable posters unlike in this newsgroup who pretend to be (such as the village nitwit, francis). frank There is very little good information on ezboard. But lots of sympathy and understanding. Elly's Tinnitus Resources http://eebee.net/ >> FP - >> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >frank Take the advice from drfrank. Go and try all the high tech doctors in the western hemisphere. Perhaps you can ask drfrank to refer a few ones to you. If nothing clicks from these high tech doctors, then com to the 'village' world of gingko biloba, or black colosh, chiro, acupuncture, muscle relaxation, etc.. Has you father had tinnitus a long time and you only just found out? Or has it just started? Lots of information at http://eebee.net/TinnitusIsaPainintheNeck.shtml Elly's Tinnitus Resources http://eebee.net/ >Pardon me for jumping in like this.... my father just informed me that >he has tinnitus and when i asked him what can be done about the ringing [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >thanks in advance >jazz mann Try this it helped me > Pardon me for jumping in like this.... my father just informed me that > he has tinnitus and when i asked him what can be done about the ringing [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > thanks in advance > jazz mann http://www.neuromonics.com/ > http://www.neuromonics.com/ OK. I understand how it works: It is an advanced devlopment on the concept of "masking". It goes beyond the simple masking action ("If you hear white noise, you won't notice the tinnitus since the masker's white noise is louder"). It takes advantage of an apparent living organism (us) biological adaptive process: On hearing something the same often enough, your brain eventually chooses to ignore it. How one trains "into" this state of mind and/or "out of" the tinnitus irritation is an interesting excercise in physiology and psychology. But one, I suppose, has to have faith in the human body and mind capability of adadpatation. Angelo Campanella No, the white noise is NOT louder. Masking should never be louder than the tinnitus. If anything it should be a notch lower than the tinnitus. Elly's Tinnitus Resources http://eebee.net/ >> http://www.neuromonics.com/ > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Angelo Campanella On 2/4/06 7:35 AM, in article jR3Ff.6925$fM1.4016@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net, "Angelo Campanella" <a.campanella@att.net> wrote: >> http://www.neuromonics.com/ > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Angelo Campanella This is more or less correct. Another interpretation is that listening to the sound/noise the body accepts that this is not a "bad". Plus the auditory fibers are constantly being fired by the sound so that they are "empty". In self treatment, if you convince yourself that the T is not a "bad", then the limbic system of stress and anxiety quits giving input. You are born with a system: when you hear the lion roar, or the twigs snap, this is a danger and and all the adrenalin rushes out. If you "learn" that the twig snapping is just your child fooling around, then it becomes no longer a "bad". Police and firefighters complain to "old sarge" or "old joe" about their tinnitus starting and "old sarge" laughs and assures them its part of the job, everyone else gets it too, "foget about it". So their limbic system doesn't kick in. Their T is not recognized/identified as a "bad". Compare this to the New Yorker living on the ground floor - sirens, etc all night. He drives to Chicago and stops at Motel 6 way way out in the country. Totally quiet. Awakens and for the first time hears his T. All the limbic and adrenalin systmes rush in as well as anxiety reinforcement, all of which makes it worse. Cognitive Therapy to convince his "systems" that this is not a "bad" do help. Murray Grossan, M.D. Www.EarAid.info |
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