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Ron Fowler - 07 Feb 2007 05:09 GMT

I'm new here. I've had tinnitus for many years, but in the last month
the intensity of the ringing has increased. This has happened before,
but never hung on so long. Is it hopeless?

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fyfpoon@gmail.com - 18 Feb 2007 16:37 GMT

> I'm new here. I've had tinnitus for many years, but in the last month
> the intensity of the ringing has increased. This has happened before,
> but never hung on so long. Is it hopeless?

I used to think it was hopeless, after listening to stupid statements
such as 'there is no cure for tinnitus', etc/ At this moment I am
still experiencing intermittent tinnitus but the sound is very low and
it does not bother me. At times it is silent.

Try the following in case you have not done it:
(1)support your neck with a wrapped towel while you sleep. Better
even to lie flat without a pillow.
(2)Take a tablet of gingko biloba to improve your head blood
circulation.

Do it for a week and see how it goes. Can you stick to the above for
a week?

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Ghamph - 19 Feb 2007 07:03 GMT

> I'm new here. I've had tinnitus for many years, but in the last month
> the intensity of the ringing has increased. This has happened before,
> but never hung on so long. Is it hopeless?

It was very depressing for me , when my "t" got very loud one day . The
scary thing was that I thought that it might get even louder , as time went
by , but it didn't. For two years it was louder than taking a shower ,
that's how I compare the volume. I also had hyperacusis meaning that sound
was painful , like waking up in the morning in a dark room and someone
opening the drapes with the bright sun hitting you in the eyes , only it
lasted for two years , but it was sound that hurt. Now it
seems to have setteled down a bit to one steady volume that the shower just
barely drounds out. I don't think about it too much any more because it has
become a part of my life. I just don't do a lot of the same things that I
used to anymore. No going to see rock bands , no headphones , no sitting in
silence because it's never silent. The key for me is distraction , by
keeping buisy and always having something that makes a little low level
knoise on all the time. Radio tv air filter and after a few 100,000 hours
or so you notice it less and less , like a nagging wife that you just stop
listening to after 40 years.

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fyfpoon@gmail.com - 21 Feb 2007 05:16 GMT

I think T patients can and should approach it both ways: distraction
and treatment. I need not narrate any more on distraction but
treatment is for those who do need it.

Years ago I was suffering from a combination of (1)Tsound and
(2)somatic discomfort in the head. Distraction helped me with (1) but
it was acupuncture that took care of (2). Once (2) was taken care of,
(1)subsided gradually. Thus there is a cause/effect relationship here
between (1) and (2). I believe many T patients suffer from a
combination of illnesses, which includes the pure T, and some of the
illnesses may have been incurred in the process of suffering from T.

While it is fine that you have got your T under control, you
nevertheless have to acknowledge that time plays an important factor
too. Time has helped heal certain parts of your body which might have
led to your T.

Talking about T, I sometimes deliberately go into a silent room to
listen to my T and it is either not there or a very small wiizzzz
sound. It has been well treated. For the past 3 years I have been
taking a tablet of US-made gingko biloba from 21Centruy, and I must
say that improved blood circulation in the head has contributed to
part of that recovery.

> > the intensity of the ringing has increased. This has happened before,
> > but never hung on so long. Is it hopeless?
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> or so you notice it less and less , like a nagging wife that you just stop
> listening to after 40 years.

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