Posted on 01/12/2011 12:18:22 PM PST by Red Badger
I think they hold a stethoscope up to its ear and listen.
Nevertheless, the things I recommended are supported by most medical authorities for overall health. Try it and you may be surprised. Oh, and make sure the supplement you take has chelated minerals.
An Audiologist can usually pick up on it by standard hearing test. There will be a measurable level of deafness at that frequency until the volume level is raised to overcome the internal noise. Even the white noise therapy doesn't help the deafness at the frequencies to the tinnitus. It relives the internal generated noise but the deafness remains. My hearing loss levels at varying frequencies more or less corresponded with my tinnitus. Some of it in part may be due to nerve damage I suppose.
bflr
I’m aware that tinnitus is usually accompanied by neurosensory hearing loss, however tinitus is a subjective symptom that is reported by the patient. The study in rats was no doubt measuring Audiometric Brain Stem Response (ABR.) That value may correspond to nerve damage, but it is a poor surrogate for tinnitus.
Often as you point out, white noise masking may alleviate the tinnitus somewhat, as reported by the patient, but does nothing to improve the deafness.
BFL
Because they are demo-RATS. Does a brain reboot cure liberalism?
“Tinnitus is purely subjective, just like headache.”
Joe, when I got mine I hooked up my audio frequency generator (an old tube type Hewlett Packard, a beauty) and started dialing. When I hit the magic frequency it disappeared. I can’t lug around a twenty pound piece of equipment though.
“Well, Yankee rats won’t.................. “
LOL!
“MD, cum laude University of Alabama in Birmingham, 1974.”
Joe, you’re OLD and your Hard Drive is failing. :)
IT HAS TO. THEY ARE BRAIN DEAD......
I understood what you were saying but was trying to help clarify. :>} Some medical terms can seem offensive because another definition of a common word is seldom used.
I'm a life long Vestibular and didn't realize it fully till I was about 36 and being treated for General Anxiety Disorder wrongfully with antidepressants. I had to piece things together myself. I spent two years in Occupational Therapy due too poor eye-too muscle coordination related also to my Inner Ear and only having single eye functional vision. My eyes both have vision but never at the same time.
The OT helped me adapt enough to even get through military service till my sensory processing system began to really degrade. The later onset included what I now know to be Sensory Stimulus induced Myoclonic Seizures or upper torso spasms shoulders and up. Nothing showed up on MRI, CAT, or even EEG. Ive just got some not too well yet understood messed up internal wiring LOL.
There are small, cellphone size audio generators that you could use for exactly that purpose.....
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How long do these trials usually take? I’ll volunteer tonight.
They are/will be going on in Europe. They usually last three to five years.....unless the study shows either marked improvement or none at all.....
Clinical trials are expected to begin on humans in the coming months, with the first trials starting in Europe, according to lead study author Navzer Engineer
You might try googling his name and see if you can volunteer....
I hope it helps you.
When I started taking Chromium I felt like it “balanced” me. Water and all that, and it also got rid of a lot of exhaustion problems I have had. Much more energy.
I used to “spin” every night in bed for hours. I haven’t had that problem for years. If that happens, put your palms on the bed. That gives the brain extra info to stabilize you.
“There are small, cellphone size audio generators that you could use for exactly that purpose.....”
Thanks. I know about them but at the present I’m unable to avail myself due to financial considerations.
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