> It includes a plastic mouthpiece with stainless steel electrodes that electrically stimulate the tongue.
All I can picture is the device John Lithgow uses in Buckaroo Banzai.
I might need to try this soon. I've had tinnitus for about 6 months after a cold. Last week, the doctor said my hearing is perfect and to just wait it out. It's frustrating.
It’s frustrating, I’ve been through that - hearing is fine, but tinnitus persists.
There’s no single recommended treatment studied by medicine so far. I’m not a doctor but I visited multiple doctors and tried many things, and I’m doing better now.
The obvious stuff:
- Stress management.
- Cut caffeine and alcohol. These substances affect blood flow of the inner ear.
- Do you have neck pain? Pain in the neck region affects the inner ear. Seek physiotherapy.
- Do you grind teeth or snore while sleeping? Seek TMJ disorder treatment.
Less obvious stuff:
- Supplement magnesium. Magnesium chelated is best. Most people are lacking it today, it is a muscle relaxant and also had an important effect to regulate blood flow.
- Ginko biloba tea or extract can help on headache and promotes blood flow on the brain as well. Must be consumed in small quantities as it has a strong blood thinner effect, so if you can get standardized capsules is best.
- B6/B12 rich diet or supplementation to help repair damaged nervous cells of the inner ear after infection.
The treatments are a mix of things that help repair the inner ear, promote blood flow and avoid pain signals in the area.
The chelated magnesium I asked a local pharmacy to manipulate, but any reputable brand should work. The protocol is 300-400mg daily for 3 months. Toxicity is hard to achieve, the body will store Mg on the bones for when you need and the excess goes in urine, but drink plenty of water.
I've read if it doesn't go away after a couple weeks it's permanent but I've experienced it before where it took a year maybe one time and another time was 6 months of no improvement and then a couple months of dramatic improvement to where what was left was so much lower that when I heard it it makes me grateful and happy because it reminds me of how lucky I am.
It took me 3 months to get into ENT here, and while they are very kind - it added nothing for me personally (i.e. we don't have a good solution for tinnitus, here are some things to avoid, etc etc). I hope your visit bears more fruit!
That's what I anticipate but mostly I want to rule out any serious causes as my tinnitus is low-pitched, both irregular and regular patterned, pulsatile, is affected by my head position and physical exertion, and fluctuates every other day. It is unlike the continuous high-pitch tinnitus that most articles describe.
IMO there's not research into it as a brain issue. Especially in medicine where we pretend there's a clean biological separation between provider specialties.
It seems more likely to be a gut microbiome issue, which would make sense considering it can be caused by antibiotics and people tend to get it as they age which your microbiome health tends to decline as we age too.
No, it's definitely insufficient faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. Which totally makes sense since sometimes sinners get it, and we're all sinners, aren't we?!
Job did not have faith in Jesus (Job 9:33), but tinnitus is not among Job's listed afflictions. I'm pretty sure tinnitus is caused by reading too many books: since your theory is wrong, by process of elimination, mine must be right.
All I can picture is the device John Lithgow uses in Buckaroo Banzai.
I might need to try this soon. I've had tinnitus for about 6 months after a cold. Last week, the doctor said my hearing is perfect and to just wait it out. It's frustrating.