[CholeraJoe]

In rats with tinnitus, they electrically stimulated the vagus nerve,

There's yer Junk Science right there. Tinnitus is purely subjective, just like headache. There is not a test that can quantify tinnitus. Rats can't report tinnitus, any more than they can whistle "Dixie" or deal cards.

[SeeSac]

There's yer Junk Science right there. Tinnitus is purely subjective, just like headache. There is not a test that can quantify tinnitus. Rats can't report tinnitus, any more than they can whistle "Dixie" or deal cards.

Sorry. I missed where you got your M.D., Dr. Joe.

[Red Badger]

Rats can't report tinnitus, any more than they can whistle "Dixie"

Well, Yankee rats won't..................

[cva66snipe]

There is not a test that can quantify tinnitus.

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.

[dljordan]

“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.