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New hope for people with tinnitus
http://www.consumeraffairs.com ^ | 09/25/2015 | By Mark Huffman & Georgetown University Medical Center

Posted on 10/16/2015 9:16:24 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: V K Lee

Magnesium helps only because he musta been bound up. When you are all bound up, the ringing gets really high pitched and loud. Once you are back to being regular, not so much ringing and a lower pitch.


21 posted on 10/16/2015 9:41:06 AM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: Arlis

This refusing to be a victim thing is so 20th Century.


22 posted on 10/16/2015 9:41:48 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Arlis

Your experience mirrors mine. It gets interesting if you try to take a hearing test where those pesky tones come over the earphones. I hear the tones even when they aren’t there.


23 posted on 10/16/2015 9:42:23 AM PDT by wita
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To: Red Badger

Both ears from two days on the rifle range, Fort Ord California early 1969.


24 posted on 10/16/2015 9:51:08 AM PDT by truth_seeker (come with the outlws.)
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To: Red Badger

Any hope for people with painful feet due to plantar fasciitis? Most podiatrists will prescribe arch supports when surgery is required.


25 posted on 10/16/2015 9:52:25 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Thorliveshere

I’m a retired musician. Why am I retired? Terrible Tinnitus! Can’t count on my ears. Don’t listen to music anymore, except for an occasional youtube. I used to do a lot of studio gigs. The ringing, squeal, clicking, tapping etc., is louder than people speak. It has made me into a recluse. I hate it!


26 posted on 10/16/2015 10:05:55 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Red Badger

I also have tinnitus ,in stereo, no doubt. Loud music, loud factories, loud jets for many years. Mine is a sound of about 11,600 hz and it is constant 24/7 and very loud. That combined with the underlying hearing loss make many social situations, such as crowded noisy restaurants, parties, and concerts unbearable to me. I also really dread children’s scream as it is painful and it ups the volume of tinnitus for hours. It’s ALL ok for me and I am not complaining, just sharing.. I think my poor wife suffers over it more than me. I just can’t hear what people are saying and often ask people to repeat or to speak louder. I think I can still hear fairly well, but the tinnitus is so loud that it drowns out the sound. I do very poorly on hearing test because I can not tell the tones from the tinnitus.

If there was a way to make it truly stop, then I am all ears!


27 posted on 10/16/2015 10:34:20 AM PDT by BRK
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To: Bob434

Not painful to me either, just *very* annoying.
I have come to the point of having to watch peoples lips as they speak to figure out all the words.
It does make it hard to get to sleep some nights as well.

Strange the constant ringing didn’t start until I began having grand mal seizures at the age of 55.
Both my dads parents were deaf, so I just figured it was a genetic thing.

There may be some hope of relief. If not, I soldier on.


28 posted on 10/16/2015 10:47:54 AM PDT by oldvirginian (Hey Europe, it ain't a refugee migration. It's an Invasion!)
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To: 353FMG

get magnesium oil and soak your feet in it


29 posted on 10/16/2015 10:48:03 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Red Badger

A Choir of crickets? More of a chirping sound then? or like the constant steady hum of cicadas? (I pulled off the road when travelling the us once, and tried to get some sleep, and the cicadas started up and it was impossible- had to keep driving on to find a quiet spot)


30 posted on 10/16/2015 10:52:04 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: V K Lee

[[Interesting. Dr. Savage has said on air that magnesium helps in the treatment as well.]]

Nope- doesn’t- take it regularly- no difference-


31 posted on 10/16/2015 10:54:08 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

Yes, it sounds like cicadas on steroids..............


32 posted on 10/16/2015 11:01:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Red Badger
Shattered my right ear cochlea in a motorcycle accident (along with a lot of bones).

I now have TINNITUS in my right ear. It's livable, but I dearly miss stereo, since I'm totally deaf in that ear now, and being a musician, it really sucks.

FMCDH(BITS)

33 posted on 10/16/2015 11:02:43 AM PDT by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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To: Bob434

Just to be clear on the situation with mag, mag binds to 13 different things, some of which do not absorb and are not effective for anything. Oxide being the worst culprit.

I don’t know if any form of mag is or isn’t effective against tinnitus but I can tell you it is VERY effective against a number of other issues.


34 posted on 10/16/2015 11:03:11 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Resolute Conservative
Somebody answer the damn phone!!

Huh...what'd he say?

35 posted on 10/16/2015 11:16:34 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: Red Badger
Mine sounds like crickets constantly on a summer night. Even in winter..........................

So what do you hear when you ask a liberal a question that stumps them?

36 posted on 10/16/2015 11:22:58 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: Lazamataz

Uhhhh, hmmmm, duh, whuhhh, that is to say.....I mean....whahhhhhhhhhhhhh!..........


37 posted on 10/16/2015 11:24:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: 353FMG
I have plantar fasciitis. And I recommend arch supports over surgery. You have to find the right supports for you. I prefer shoes that have a built in arch support over something you slide in. There are several brands of shoes that have great support, of course I am a woman so they might not be what you are looking for. ; )

I have tinnitus too and I have had it for so long that I might miss it if it was gone.

38 posted on 10/16/2015 11:33:36 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Red Badger

Look up Iodine deficiency.


39 posted on 10/16/2015 11:38:10 AM PDT by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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To: petercooper

I know I’ve not got an Iodine deficiency. We eat a lot of seafood here on the Gulf Coast..................


40 posted on 10/16/2015 11:40:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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