@Pano - DHL delivery will evidently take about two weeks to get to me (SA C&E pathetic, and limited flights to down South.
@hweb - I actually have a very balanced diet; I don't have a lot starch and always have protein with every meal. My dietician actually said that my weight problem was partly due to too little starch, and when I do have some my grabs onto it and stores it. The diet I was on earlier this year helped me drop 6.5 kg in 3 months. I do walk a lot for my job (site surveys and visits) but now with the lockdown here I have had hardly any exercise. And having a tendon op (left foot) hasn't helped. I am finally starting to spin again, but can be on my feets for more than 2 hours continuously. Age is not on my side. But so be it. I'll just chip away my blubber slowly but surely.
@hweb - I actually have a very balanced diet; I don't have a lot starch and always have protein with every meal. My dietician actually said that my weight problem was partly due to too little starch, and when I do have some my grabs onto it and stores it. The diet I was on earlier this year helped me drop 6.5 kg in 3 months. I do walk a lot for my job (site surveys and visits) but now with the lockdown here I have had hardly any exercise. And having a tendon op (left foot) hasn't helped. I am finally starting to spin again, but can be on my feets for more than 2 hours continuously. Age is not on my side. But so be it. I'll just chip away my blubber slowly but surely.
Not sure what's happening, but I'm getting more and more annoyed at those damn noisy fluorescent lights again.
Seems that the random occurences for hearing high-ish frequency sounds are very slowly increasing.
Might get around to self-testing my ears again this weekend, been a while, hoping it's not significantly worse...
Seems that the random occurences for hearing high-ish frequency sounds are very slowly increasing.
Might get around to self-testing my ears again this weekend, been a while, hoping it's not significantly worse...
There's a 'thing' called "Tomatis Sound Therapy" that is effective to reduce the effects of tinnitus and other hearing problems - I used the system available via the portable cassette player, remember them? It's probably digital these days.
Not surprisingly, it needs to be repeated every few years but happy to see it still works okay.
Not surprisingly, it needs to be repeated every few years but happy to see it still works okay.
No, but there are techniques for training the brain to ignore the signals. This might be one, I read a paper on it, but it still sounded too much like homeopathy for my taste.
I've this sort of therapy for my tinnitus, but ATM I'm still trying get them to investigate why it's intermittent and starts when I sit down or lay down and can stop while I'm moving around.
The main trouble is that the doctors are so uninformed that they take the default 'nerve damage, nothing can be done, you have to adapt' approach and getting further investigation is hard work.
It's a weird thing, but I tell the doctor "I get the noise, or it's louder when I tilt my head to the left" and I get a 'this does not compute' look and then it's like I never said it.
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I've this sort of therapy for my tinnitus, but ATM I'm still trying get them to investigate why it's intermittent and starts when I sit down or lay down and can stop while I'm moving around.
The main trouble is that the doctors are so uninformed that they take the default 'nerve damage, nothing can be done, you have to adapt' approach and getting further investigation is hard work.
It's a weird thing, but I tell the doctor "I get the noise, or it's louder when I tilt my head to the left" and I get a 'this does not compute' look and then it's like I never said it.
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Well 'silverprout', I'm sure you have reason for your certitude about the impossibility of techniques to alleviate or even get rid of the tinnitus, etc and I'm not one to suggest you may be wrong.
However, in my case the elimination of not just the tinnitus but also the associated dissociation problems and recurring issues of Meniere's disease were successfully reduced and for long periods, completely eliminated
As I'm the beneficiary of this specific successful treatment, I can tell you that it's not some imaginary effect or 'dirty business' and it's regrettable that this doesn't seem to fit into your ridged attitude of the problem.
Even if you're a member of the medical profession, I don't understand how you can be so certain that
but no-one can cure a tinnitus, rebuild nerves or restore the structure of some damaged tissues, no-one can.
The technique has been around now for over 80 years and has been widely endorsed.
Yes Steven, it's a bit 'outside the square' for the medical profession but there's plenty of articles about it.
Unfortunately, it's not a 'quick fix' as it requires a few hours each day listening to modified recorded music just above the level of audibility for some weeks - to receive treatment at the 'Wellness Centres" around the world, for example, it becomes quite expensive but it became possible to use cassette recordings of the same modified music and played back on repeat to deliver the necessary hours of treatment - this the method that I used and was extremely pleased that it was so successful as the best of the medical specialists here had written me off as beyond help and issued drugs, etc.
It was an unwelcome revelation to be subjected to such 'closed minds' attitudes of supposedly intelligent professional peoples and unfortunately, it's not restricted to just the medical profession/business
However, in my case the elimination of not just the tinnitus but also the associated dissociation problems and recurring issues of Meniere's disease were successfully reduced and for long periods, completely eliminated
As I'm the beneficiary of this specific successful treatment, I can tell you that it's not some imaginary effect or 'dirty business' and it's regrettable that this doesn't seem to fit into your ridged attitude of the problem.
Even if you're a member of the medical profession, I don't understand how you can be so certain that
but no-one can cure a tinnitus, rebuild nerves or restore the structure of some damaged tissues, no-one can.
The technique has been around now for over 80 years and has been widely endorsed.
Yes Steven, it's a bit 'outside the square' for the medical profession but there's plenty of articles about it.
Unfortunately, it's not a 'quick fix' as it requires a few hours each day listening to modified recorded music just above the level of audibility for some weeks - to receive treatment at the 'Wellness Centres" around the world, for example, it becomes quite expensive but it became possible to use cassette recordings of the same modified music and played back on repeat to deliver the necessary hours of treatment - this the method that I used and was extremely pleased that it was so successful as the best of the medical specialists here had written me off as beyond help and issued drugs, etc.
It was an unwelcome revelation to be subjected to such 'closed minds' attitudes of supposedly intelligent professional peoples and unfortunately, it's not restricted to just the medical profession/business
Some people might be interested in Action on Hearing Loss
One of the reasons it exists is due to apathy in the medical profession about tinnitus
One of the reasons it exists is due to apathy in the medical profession about tinnitus
I'm only talking about the tinnitus deasease and i'm not a doctor, it is a concatenation of 30 years of my own reaserch and experience with the traumatic tinitus.
I'm also i'm totally incompetent and unable to say if the therapy that you've mentioned is curing the meniere syndrom (wich is not a tinnitus).
but i'm absolutely certain that the regeneration of complete organ is impossible, we will never see growing a new arm after being cutted... only deadpool have this ability.
What do these people know?
Just theories, IMO. Skinnier you are, the better you feel. Which means avoiding starchy food.
It does shock me how hammered our ears are. I used to hear 16kHz, now a dismal 9kHz.
Touchwood, I have avoided a family complaint of Meniere's disease - Wikipedia.
Happily now largely cured by a sea-sickness tablet called Stugeron.
is there any medicine that cures...I doubt
How to Stay Healthy Until You’re 105 (It’s In Your Gut) | Dr. Steven Gundry on Health Theory - YouTube
Yes, there's quite a lot of literature about it. Seems to vary from person to person, but caffeine, alcohol and NSAIDS seem to figure prominently in the list.
Sadly, not me. Oddly, with mine, Ibuprofen works fairly well. But I have to take a lot of it. I've come to the conclusion that I've got something pinching the auditory nerve.
I was watching the Horses on TV in my local pub last week, and I am 66 years old.
I had to tell the 25-y-o young barman that it was shockingly loud on sound. I could have heard it well enough at a tenth of the volume on commentary.
He didn't get it at all. Wouldn't turn it down. My young nephews are the same. Watch Home Cinema like Captain America and Transformers at ear-splitting loud volume. They'll all be deaf by the time they are thirty.
How it works is if you wreck your ears with loud sounds, you can no longer hear conversation over the music.
A question of most of the 20,000 nerve endings dying. I'm probably down to about a thousand. IMO, our ears are designed for hearing quiet stuff. And, FWIW, have a circuit-breaker in the stirrup bone designed to protect them from extremes. Something that incidentally is completely addled by alcohol at raves and gigs, which stops the nerves to the stirrup bone from functioning.
Sorry to go on. It is shocking how damaged our ears are at this forum.
I had to tell the 25-y-o young barman that it was shockingly loud on sound. I could have heard it well enough at a tenth of the volume on commentary.
He didn't get it at all. Wouldn't turn it down. My young nephews are the same. Watch Home Cinema like Captain America and Transformers at ear-splitting loud volume. They'll all be deaf by the time they are thirty.
How it works is if you wreck your ears with loud sounds, you can no longer hear conversation over the music.
A question of most of the 20,000 nerve endings dying. I'm probably down to about a thousand. IMO, our ears are designed for hearing quiet stuff. And, FWIW, have a circuit-breaker in the stirrup bone designed to protect them from extremes. Something that incidentally is completely addled by alcohol at raves and gigs, which stops the nerves to the stirrup bone from functioning.
Sorry to go on. It is shocking how damaged our ears are at this forum.
I couldn't agree more. Many people I know commented on how nice it was to be outside for exercise during lockdown, hearing the birds properly for example. I find I hear more detail when I listen to music at a low volume after my ears have adjusted