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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Tinnitus / November 2007Might this development apply to tinnitus?
I am no doctor but it seems to me that if nerve cells can be fixed then maybe the hair cells that so many of us have damaged might be repaired or rebuilt as well. see the article at: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/index.htm?id=125737 > I am no doctor but it seems to me that if nerve cells can be fixed then > maybe the hair cells that so many of us have damaged might be repaired [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/index.htm?id=125737 perhaps in many cases our tinnitus has nothing to do with hair cells. >> I am no doctor but it seems to me that if nerve cells can be >> fixed then [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > perhaps in many cases our tinnitus has nothing to do with hair cells. and as far as I know (correct me if I am wrong) , the medical profession cannot diagose the tinnitus as definately being caused by bad hair cells, only guess at it Apparently they are too small to see . If diagnoses cannot be made, how can a comitment to repair them be made? Perhaps in the far off future they will be able to see them and fix them. > "fyfp...@gmail.com" <fyfp...@gmail.com> wrote innews:1192803048.243218.199040@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com: > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Perhaps in the far off future they will be able to see them and fix them. >From what little I have learned in the past 2 months or so since I lost my hearing in one ear and got tinnitus at the same time, no one really knows the exact cause of tinnitus, nor do they even know how hearing occurs. The doctors I have seen do agree that hearing loss is usually at least associated (perhaps caused by) with hair cell damage, and most people with hearing loss also experience tinnitus. I saw another interesting article on tinnnitus cause that basicaly says the hissing and roaring noises are a result of the brain trying to jack up the volume on an input the had gone silent, ending up with the magnification of what was once very weak but existing background signals into loud noises we hear as tinnitus. checkl it out : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071005185125.htm I guess if you tuned a radio to between stations and then JACKED it WAY up, that would sorts sound like what mine sounds like. The brain may be trying to adjust and empty channel up unitl at least SOMETHING is audible. Thanks a bunch brain!!! Like when someone who loses an arm or leg coninues to fell phantom pains...another medical THEORY about causes of tinnitus. > I guess if you tuned a radio to between stations and then JACKED it > WAY up, that would sorts sound like what mine sounds like. The brain > may be trying to adjust and empty channel up unitl at least SOMETHING > is audible. Thanks a bunch brain!!! Like when someone who loses an > arm or leg coninues to fell phantom pains...another medical THEORY > about causes of tinnitus. What I find interesting is that like 20 years before I experienced full blown tinnitus, I noticed that could detect a sort of faint ringing/wooshing, when I was in rooms that were dead quiet. I at the time concluded that my auditory system was straining to pick up sound. > > I guess if you tuned a radio to between stations and then JACKED it > > WAY up, that would sorts sound like what mine sounds like. The brain [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > ringing/wooshing, when I was in rooms that were dead quiet. I at the > time concluded that my auditory system was straining to pick up sound. Is your tinnitus at least partly healed or is it of the same level of volume it had 20 years ago? > > "fyfp...@gmail.com" <fyfp...@gmail.com> wrote innews:1192803048.243218.199040@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com: > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > > - - About 2 years ago, I met a lady in the process of going through hyperbaric oxygen treatment. She lost her hearing all of a sudden due to her abrupt loss of temper with her servant. Later on, her hearing was partly recovered. While her doctors did not explain the mechanism by which her hearing was lost, her herbalist told her that excessive emotional turmoil had damaged the energy field in her kidney, which is connected closely to the inner ear, according to this theory. Thus she was on herb treatment at the same time. As a matter of fact, one of the intravenous injection solution used was a herb extract. By the way, the American doctors at Boystown Hospital in Nebraska also found out a close connection between kidney and inner ear, albeit they discovered this several thousand years later than the Chinese herb doctors.... > I am no doctor but it seems to me that if nerve cells can be fixed then > maybe the hair cells that so many of us have damaged might be repaired [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/index.htm?id=125737 That sounds good for larger more accessible nerves but a few hundred hair nerves in the ear would need to be sorted out not to fix good nerve hairs while trying to fix damager ones. Probably not in my lifetime anyway. Jamffer |
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