Tips for tinnitus

Yoga and any kind of physical excercise is a great help for me too - as well as occasional weed. 

Listening to music I find that sometimes digital music replay enforces the tinnitus stronger than vinyl - not so late at night, no idea why, maybe cleaner mains current late night.

It also calmes me down to do cable dressing or re-arrange something in my setup like speaker placement - so that in the end I can‘t tell if the difference is in the setup or in my mind.

p. posted:

 > weed <

Which strains have you found to be most effective?

Thanks,

Jan

Jan-Erik Nordoen posted:

p. posted:

 > weed <

Which strains have you found to be most effective?

Thanks,

Jan

I only have access to street quality, very strong variation in quality and no further information available 

I was at my Drs and a wall shelf of info was available, one was on Tinnitus.  Very informative, very technical and you should go to an ear specialist and get hearing test.  I did that and was profoundly sad that I have poor hearing, but at 63 that's what happens.  Also, any drugs even aspirin can charge it up.  While there get your ears cleaned with warm water, it makes a huge difference.  10 years ago was my first time, I was aghast at what came out, and it took a long time for the nurse, but I was in landscaping  and it's dry here in CA.

Sadly I too have tinnitus ..I believe it became a lot worse after two severe bouts of labyrinthitis which put me to bed for several weeks ...not fun

It can cause permanent deafness ..so I guess I'm lucky to just have the ringing ...

I tried Lazer treatment for a while.. which is claimed to help some people...it did seem to do something..but wasn't a permanent solution unfortunately..

I have had tinnitus since a teenager in the early 70's. I believe that going to lots of loud rock concerts was a factor, as was my love of listening to music far too loud on my electret headphones, I think the volume level was enough to have the phones bouncing of my ears....and various Walkmans. 

I have music or the radio on all The time which at least masks the whistling. 

Bob F

If it’s any consolation I’ve had it for 10 years. Worse some days than others and when I’m tired. My bother-in-law who’s a GP said it was the inevitable sign of deafness - thanks!

I've learned to cope with it and at times can tune it out by focussing on other things, even putting earphones on and listening to the World Service at 3.00am. I still enjoy my music though, just not played too loud. You have my sympathies!

I suspect that achieving fasting insulin  less than 5 uIU/ml might eliminate or significantly reduce tinnitus symptoms. Unfortunately this is easier said than done, It takes a combination of luck, education, high intelligence, determination to achieve such a goal. Most people have around 10 uIU/ml and seldom measure it...

So are you saying there is evidence to suggest that insulin levels affect tinnitus?

I've seen nothing to this effect and am interested

As far as i know there is no data  that insulin directly related with tinnitus.  This means that no one until today scientifically tested this hypothesis. On the other hand nothing prevents any individual to test this by himself.

There are data  that chronically elevated insulin is related with all the serious illness. There is no pill that lowers insulin, so its a process that involve reconsidering many parameters of lifestyle like when you eat, what you eat, sleep patterns, moving, sun exposure etc. I suspect that if one succeeds lowering insulin, a secondary benefit could be mild or no tinnitus symptoms.

Lowering fasting insulin is a very difficult target and the first hurdle to overcome is to accept that is worth doing it.

Some promising new research:

Specially timed signals ease tinnitus symptoms in first test aimed at condition's root cause  link

Jan-Erik Nordoen posted:

Some promising new research:

Specially timed signals ease tinnitus symptoms in first test aimed at condition's root cause  link

Indeed so.  Thanks for the link.  Fingers crossed that it may lead to a cure!