Posted on 10/16/2015 9:45:47 AM PDT by Red Badger
Also check out apricots, ripe or dried, avocados, acorn squash, artichokes, bamboo shoots, and worst of all: CHOCOLATE......B^(
You have been added.............8^)
I will post this to you publicly in the hopes it will help not just you but others. I’m not in the habit of sharing my prescriptions online.
I’ve had our mutual “friend” in my head for the last year and a half. Nothing helped at all until last November I visited an ENT (the last one after five) who suggested I try “Nortriptyline”, an anti-depressant (now no longer used for that purpose) that some recent studies at NIH had shown could decrease or eliminate tinnitus. 30% of the participants saw a decrease, 30% saw elimination and the rest saw no decrease but came to a point where they were no longer bothered by the “noise”.
I experienced some decrease and also have reached a point where I’m not “as” bothered by what remains. It’s not a promise of a cure for you or anyone but it’s at least better than all the herbal junk out there that I’m sure you’ve tried already like I did.
Anyway it’s been the best for me I thought I’d share. You take much lower doses than were previously prescribed for depression so you don’t get any of the nasty side effects. Take the name to your doctor and see what he thinks. Again just a suggestion; because I “know”.
I think it’s fair to say at least half the burden is how much it bothers. Some may not think a high pitched whine constant for every hour of the day can be too bothersome. Those people never had it though.
Thank you.
Ooops, sorry for my mistake.
From all I have heard/read on it, it is not something they can tune out like background noise. Seems to be a brain thing instead of ear thing.
CHOCOLATE! Hold on, there are limits . .
Chocolate (dark) has 165mg of potassium per 1.5 oz.
Your banana has 425mg, average.......................
http://www.drugs.com/cg/potassium-content-of-foods-list.html
1 medium baked potato, with skin (925)...................
For me it’s fairly severe. High(er) frequency sounds start merging with the ringing in my ears at about 7500hz - 8000hz and I can’t hear anything above that. Of course I’m old anyway!
Without a doubt, I’d love to be on the tinnitus list. Thanks so much for pinging me FourtySeven, and I feel for you; I’m sorry you have to suffer with this malady too.
And, by the way, a FReeper suggested Bromelain capsules [the enzyme from pineapple], and I think it has helped me to a minor degree, but everything is appreciated so I’ve been taking them ever since he mentioned it many months ago.
Now I’m going to go read the article. Thank you again! .. =)
This particular study is in the UK.
Here’s the one for the US:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT02345031?term=clarity-1&rank=2#contacts
You are on the list!......................
You didn’t make a mistake.
I’m the one who embarrassed myself.
I’m good at it.
No harm.
Red please put me on your list.
Put me on your list if I’m not there already.
And answer the phone :^)
I was sitting here FReeping and listening to my ears ringing when my husband got out his
drill and made holes over the dining room windows in preparation for installing blinds.
A few minutes after he was done drilling the mounting holes, I realized that my ringing
ears were no longer ringing.
Weird...
You’re ON!...........................
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