how to cure tinnitus?
A few months ago I went to a heavy Metal concert. My ears started ringing and I didn’t think much of it, now it’s becoming hard to cope with, and I am slowly going insane. I live a breathe music so this doesn’t help much either.
I have thyroid disease and type 1 Diabetes which I am sure have botch contributed to these factors. I read that I can’t drink alcohol, coffee, tobacco, or even have salt products as they cause my ears to ring even more…. If I would have known about thyroid problems causing tinnitus I would have been more cautious in the first place, however we don’t tend to think about these things until the damage is done.
I am currently trying to get rid of tinnitus by taking Magnesium, Zinc, some natural herbs called "Glandex", and I’ve recently just tried to heat up olive oil with cotton balls.
Is there ANYTHING at all, any program or healing methods that have been found to work for any users out there? I just feel rather skeptical with all of those paid for programs online. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
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Thyroid disease and diabetes don’t contribute to tinnitus. Tinnitus largely boils down to one or both of:
1. physical damage in the ear
2. overactive neurons in the brain
For the ear, there are hair cells called cilia in the inner ear, which convert sounds waves into electrical impulses. As the cilia wave back and forth in response to a sound stimulus, they release an electrical signal about the frequency, intensity, and duration of a sound to the brain. Loud sounds flatten the cilia, and it is believed that tinnitus arises when the hair cells touch each other, forming a short circuit so that they keep sending the electrical impulses. If you can stimulate the hair cells to stand upright again, the short circuit is broken and the noise stops.
The other main cause is when neurons in the auditory processing centre in the brain keep firing, even when the electrical impulses telling them to fire have stopped. That’s where the no caffeine etc comes in – anything that will further stimulate the brain can make it worse.
I had tinnitus for 12 years, and I got rid of it using "Sound Therapy", a listening program you use at home, based on the work of ear specialist Dr Alfred Tomatis. It can take quite some time to work – in my case my tinnitus started improving after about 2 months, and had completely gone by 6 months – but it works on the root causes of the problem, so the result has been permanent.
I ended up giving Sound Therapy a go because it does have research bedhind it, and is 1/10th the cost of programs like neuromonics.
Utilize masking noise. Tinnitus is usually more bothersome when the surroundings are quiet, especially when you are in bed. A competing sound such as a ticking clock, a radio, a fan or white noise machine may help mask tinnitus. Small hearing aid like devices which generate a competitive sound may help reduce the awareness of the tinnitus. You may combine such maskers along with herbal & homeopathic remedies.
According to the American Tinnitus Association (ATA), there is no known cure of tinnitus, at least with the conventional line of medicine. For a long time though, herbs & herbal formulas have come to the rescue of these tinnitus sufferers.
Tinnitus is usually due to damage to the microscopic ends of the hearing nerve in the inner ear. Perfect hearing is possible only if these nerves remain healthy and any damage to these nerves results in tinnitus or hearing impairment.
Some herbal remedies exist which can be used to support all body systems involved in helping the ear to perform its tasks of clear hearing and balance, as well as the circulatory, cardiovascular, and nervous systems.
Some of the most common herbs & biochemic tissue salts used are
• Ginkgo Biloba is excellent for a number of cerebral and circulatory disorders. It is probably the most widely-used herb for tinnitus and many sufferers swear by this natural ingredient.
• Rosemary dilates and strengthens blood vessels and is an excellent circulation tonic. Rosemary is particularly useful for tinnitus that is caused or worsened by high blood pressure and other circulatory conditions.
• Avena Sativa is effective in reducing high cholesterol levels which can contribute to circulatory problems which cause tinnitus.
• Wild Hyssop is also useful in reducing pain and inflammation.
• Salicylic Ac. (30C) is indicated for tinnitus with loud roaring or ringing sounds, which may be accompanied by deafness or vertigo. This remedy is particularly useful in people whose symptoms began with a bout of flu, Meniere’s disease or long-term use of aspirin.
• Ferrum phosphoricum (Ferrum phos. D6) is a homeopathic biochemic tissue salt which supports the absorption of iron in the body. The protective myelin sheath which surrounds all nerve tissue needs iron to supply this vital nutrient to the nerve cells it encases. Regular use of Ferrum phos. can help to prevent dizziness, headaches and restlessness and is of great benefit for those who tend to feel irritable, tense and tired.
• Magnesium phosphate (Mag. phos. D6) well-known as a homeopathic painkiller, Mag. phos. is also of great benefit to the health of the nerves. It acts as a natural anti-spasmodic and a nerve and muscle relaxant and is also frequently recommended for stress headaches.
Hope all this helps
Good Luck!
You may get more details on the above here http://www.healthherbsandnutrition.com/remedies/t/tinnitus.htm
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my tinnitus has never ever gone away, i have had it all my life its never gone away, no matter where i am what im doing what im listening to its always there, doctors and parents always thought it was my ears heck they even threw tubes in my ears and my ears were working fine…
for me its a one high pitch tone, never changes always the same tone, sometimes it gets quieter sometimes it gets reallllly loud like right now, its 5am i cannot sleep, sometimes i can be talking to somone and i loose track of what they are saying because of it.
what helps is listening to music, watching tv, getting your mind on other sounds and try to ignore the tinnitus. whatever you do if it ever comes back dont concentrate on the area or it definately will get louder.
people will try to sell u stuff give u links saying buy this… but cheaper is an mp3 player and listen to music, there is NO cure…
this so called sound therapy, simply gives you another sound to listen to, in which takes your mind off of your high pitched tone and reduces the level of it. in which can be done with a 15$ mp3 player and some music. it does NOT cure it it only masks it covers it up because your mind is on another sound.
Thyroid problems don’t cause tinnitus. Severe hypothyroid state can cause hearing loss. But if you had that, your hearing loss/tinnitus would be the least of your problems.
Currently the best treatment for tinnitus is sound based therapies. The only web-based one, that is research based and personalized, is at beyondtinnitus.com. This company’s system is based on work done by physicians at the University of California Irvine.
Basically, they figure out your tinnitus pitch and loudness, etc. and give you a sound file that you can download for therapy that is specific to your tinnitus. The therapy sound can be mixed with your own music using their system and you can listen to your own music while the sound therapy file is working in the background.
The alternative is therapy in the clinic with tinnitus retraining therapy or Neuromonics, but those will cost you ~$5000.
Herbal remedies have not been shown to be effective in good clinical studies. Sound therapies have are effective 80-90% of time, whereas herbal remedies have only been found to be as effective as sugar pills.
Good luck