Why is there no medical help for tinnitus?

[Grasswire2]

Why hasn't science delivered some relief?

ENT physicians won't see a patient for tinnitus -- no remedy.

And yet it's a fairly common issue. Disabling, for some.

[forgotmylogin]

1. I actually read about this the other day; it's worth a try:

https://trudenta.com/this-simple-trick-may-help-with-tinnitus/

“Place the palms of your hands over your ears with fingers resting gently on the back of your head. Your middle fingers should point toward one another just above the base of your skull. Place your index fingers on top of you middle fingers and snap them (the index fingers) onto the skull making a loud, drumming noise. Repeat 40-50 times. Some people experience immediate relief with this method. Repeat several times a day for as long as necessary to reduce tinnitus.”

There's a video explaining how to do it on the site.

[Alwaysna]

2. Anti depressants can cause tinnitus . I have it because of paroxetine.

[Cartoonist]

7. Me too. And it did nothing for my depression except make it worse.

[Warpy]

10. High dose aspitin therapy for RA for me

because that's pretty much all they had in the early 70s.

50 yeas later, it's starting to get a little worse. Mostly I've been able to ignore it and function but now it's getting annoying.

[in2herbs]

3. Never had it but have a friend who is a NP and he recommends Vit. B. nt

[Doc Sportello]

4. Here is a researcher who focuses on the subject

May not be a cure but at least they are working to understand it better and find treatments:

https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/547435

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. My mother had it for many years.

She was told to learn to live with it.

[Shrike47]

6. My hearing aids cancel a lot of my tinnitus. I don't know how, but they do.

[Grasswire2]

8. In my ongoing frustrated effort to find solution..

...I learned that tinnitus can be associated with bradycardia (slow heart rate) for some crazy reason.

My heart rate this morning is 39 beats per minute. And I realize that as my bradycardia has worsened over the last couple of years, the tinnitus has also worsened.

[Gaugamela]

9. I've wondered if hypnosis could treat tinnitus. Here's an article:

Efficacy of self-hypnosis for tinnitus relief

Abstract

The efficacy of self-hypnosis (SH) on tinnitus relief was compared with two control procedures: 1) presentation of a brief auditory stimulus (BAS) to the ear with tinnitus; 2) waiting list (WL), i.e. patients receiving no formal treatment. The results have shown that 73% of SH subjects reported disappearance of tinnitus during treatment sessions, as compared with only 24% in the BAS group. Moreover, the short-term (1 week) and long-term (2 months) symptom profiles of only SH subjects revealed a significant improvement. Thus, SH may well be a beneficial method for the relief of tinnitus.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2075417/

[mitch96]

11. I've had it for years. When I rode motorcycles I always wore ear plugs. When I finished riding

and pulled out the ear plugs I would still have a slight ringing in my ears for about ½ hour and then it would go away. One day it did not go away.. If I'm doing something, watching the telly or music I don't notice it. When it's quiet, like now I "hear" it.
Lots of theory's but no cure.
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[GreenWave]

12. I have had this since I was listening to the World Cup and the vuvuzelas got me.

I have it right now but not as intense. I think letting ears hydrate with 2-3 drops of 70% alcohol after each shower helps, but does not eliminate. I'll try some right now.

Back in a flash...
Slight improvement. I need to protect my ears when mowing.

[Grasswire2]

13. one weird aspect for me...

I have "labile" systolic hypertension, meaning that it spikes with stress. Sometimes into the stroke zone. Many times, without any provocation -- it just happens.

It is accompanied by a heightened noise in the ears.

And so if my ears are ringing very loudly, I know to check my BP and take a pill if necessary to bring the BP down to normal range.

But aside from that, it never goes away. Often bad. Sometimes VERY bad. But never gone. Sometimes I wake up at night with my ears ringing hard and loud, and then I take my BP and have to take med to bring it down. Very frustrating.

[Rebl2]

14. I have had it

since my teenage years. I developed rheumatoid arthritis around the age of nine back in the late sixties. The only treatment for a child back then was aspirin and I took a high dose. (They would not use steroids on a child back then, at least my doctors wouldn’t.) I always wondered why the dr. would ask if I had ringing in my ears. Now of course I know. Now I think if I didn’t have the ringing, that would bother me oddly enough.

[Grasswire2]

15. I did just recently learn two things

1. Tinnitus can worsen with "purines" in the system, in the same way that gout worsens with ingestion of purines. This can be a product of kidney disease....not filtering out the purines from certain foods so they build up in the system.

2. The Pfizer covid booster has tinnitus as a side effect. Ugh. Just got one two days ago, and my ears are worse.