First you mentioned neck problems. Now you have added back problems.
These are areas that need attention.
Have a read of http://eebee.net/TinnitusIsaPainintheNeck.shtml

Elly's Tinnitus Resources
http://eebee.net/

i forgot to ask something, as i understand the heat enchances your
blood flow because of dilatation of veins but the cold constricts the
veins right? what´s the purpose of reducing the blood flow??? at this
point i´ll try anything ;)
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Proceed with _great care_ when you take any advice from anyone here
(including me). Remember most of us are not medically qualified and you bear
all the liability and risk - and all the consequences - of any action taken.
The level of ignorance on tinnitus generally is astonishing, and all most of
us can do here is to try to help from our own experiences.

Some points:

I personally wouldn't recommend Ginkgo Biloba because it could, in extremis,
cause bleeding behind the eye.  Instead, I take ¼ aspirin tablet a day which
actually seems to work better.  But I am taking no other medications. Be
careful.

You make a good point about blood flow and I _don't_ understand the actual
mechanism.  I guess though it might work something like this. If you have an
area in your blood system affected by atherosclerosis (ie. where the blood
vessels become partially blocked), the process of forcing the blood through
can cause some distress or pain. If the problem lies in the inner ear or
auditory cortex, this could perhaps be expressed as tinnitus.

If you ease the flow in this area by the use of blood 'thinning' medications
such as low-dose aspirin, or you relax the blood-vessels by use of
vasodilators, then this could help. But conversely, another strategy might
be to do the opposite - to constrict the preceeding area in the chain (where
the blood is coming from) so that the blood pressure is reduced locally in
the distressed area.

Remember though (if it's not already completely obvious) I speak from
IGNORANCE.   Go and show these ideas to your doctor and watch him or her
laugh. ;-)

Also, I'm focussing on my sort of tinnitus, which AFAIK has nothing to do
with previous overexposure to sound.  Where the tinnitus has been caused by
loud rock concerts and the like, the mechanism behind it is probably totally
different.

Steve

On 1/23/06 11:05 PM, in article
1138086332.984096.245100@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com, "lost_cluster2"
<albarranarturogo@gmail.com> wrote:

Heat increases blood flow in the arteries to the area, cold constricts flow
in the arteries to the area.  Veins don't dilate or constrict.

The whole concept of increasing flow to the ear is now up to question
because T can occur on 3 levels.

Murray Grossan, M.D.
Www.EarAid.info

Thanks a lot for all the comments made about the question, i can
understand the risks of
trying any advice from here but i think it´s worth in the need of
learning to control the T, as soon as you don´t get with any
medications i think it´s good because they are alternative ways to
give yourself a try.

Now i can say for shure something, soy in any form and hot-spicy food
it´s te worst combination for T, and it´s a very sad situation for me
because i became addict to korean food!!! :(  i tried not eating it for
a month and i noted a lot of diferences on the way my tinnitus went
down but the thrusday and saturday i tryed again that food and i have
again my tinnitus hard :( is there a way to know if this is the cause?
or some other habits? if it´s related to food can you know an average
time it takes to lower your tinnitus?, i think i made the worst
combination this weekend: beer, soy, cola, hot and spicy
food....geeez...