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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Tinnitus / April 2007

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Why don't most doctors know how to treat tinnitus?

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fyfpoon@gmail.com - 10 Apr 2007 04:12 GMT
In my view, most doctors don't know how to treat tinnitus.  This is my
observation not just from my own personal experiences with doctors but
also from the lamentings and disgruntlings expressed by the T patients
living in advanced countries like the US of A.  It does seem to
suggest that the doctors there are just about as confused as or even
more so than the doctors in poor countries.  Why is it so?  Why does a
7 years old's Mom have to come to a support group like alt and pledge
for a solution to her little daughter's sleep problem caused by ear
noise when the person that can provide her with the answer should have
been her high-tech and highly expensive ENT doctor in the city of
London?

These doctors could not have been without training, or that their
medical training could not have been without the topic of tinnitus.
Then why is it so?

My view is that the medical principle with which they approach
tinnitus has not been scientific enough or totally unscientific at
all!

What else could have been the answer?
Murray Grossan - 10 Apr 2007 16:29 GMT
On 4/9/07 8:12 PM, in article
1176174723.519105.299680@b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com, "fyfpoon@gmail.com"

> In my view, most doctors don't know how to treat tinnitus.  This is my
> observation not just from my own personal experiences with doctors but
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> What else could have been the answer?

The answer is that we are dealing with a symptom that can't be objectified.
Without objective measurement how do you prove
A. It exists
B that it is being helped or harmed

Compare this to a staph infection that you can give to an experimental
animal and measure the effectiveness of a treatment.

Plus, Tinnitus can occur in the ear, the nerve or the brain and we still
don't have the means of identifying its source.

Each theory is hampered by the high % of placebo results and the fact that
the symptoms can come and go on their own or for reasons we don't understand
- yet.

Yes you can look at unscientific means but do you want to be given a
surgical or medical treatment that doesn't have scientific validity?  There
is plenty of research being done in this field and lots of therapies that
can be of value.
fyfpoon@gmail.com - 11 Apr 2007 06:51 GMT
> On 4/9/07 8:12 PM, in article

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> is plenty of research being done in this field and lots of therapies that
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That said, (1)why do so many disgruntled T patients in America
complain that their ENT doctors have no solution for them?  And (2)how
about the ENT doctor of that 7 years old British girl who is having
problem sleeping due to ear noise and her mother had to ask for answer
in this group?

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