Tinnitus Remedies and Treatments - General Strategies
The big issue for anybody who has contracted tinnitus is obviously what remedies exist. First of all, one has to remember that tinnitus is a nervous disposition, which in many cases can not be linked...
View ArticleTinnitus and Blood Thinning Medication
Today I want to briefly discuss blood thinning medication (administered either orally or by means of infusion) which is frequently prescribed by doctors in case of tinnitus. The theory behind this is...
View ArticleTinnitus and Sound Therapy
Sound therapies in various forms are often being applied in order to alleviate the tinnitus symptoms. The most common form of a sound therapy is a 'tinnitus masker (noiser)' , which is a device that...
View ArticleTinnitus and Low Level Laser Therapy
Although the low level laser therapy against tinnitus is known for more than 20 years, it is still a rather controversial treatment (and therefore usually not covered by health insurances). It is...
View ArticleTinnitus and Hearing Damage
I want to take a short break from my series 'Tinnitus Remedies and Treatments' and today focus on the issue of hearing damage in connection with tinnitus. I addressed this already shortly in the...
View ArticleTinnitus Treatment - Antidepressants and Tranquilizers
While antidepressants or tranquilizers are in general not required for a treatment of tinnitus, there may be cases where it makes sense to take them at least for a while. I get many reports from...
View ArticleTinnitus and Nutrition
The connection may not be immediately obvious in the beginning, but nutrition can have a significant influence on the severity of the tinnitus, at least at times. On has to remember that tinnitus is a...
View ArticleTinnitus, Hearing Damage and Ear Plugs
Many people may consider wearing earplugs as 'uncool', but in very loud environments (above 90dB sound pressure), they are very much recommended or even required (for instance in certain jobs) in...
View ArticleTinnitus and Weather
With the winter now almost upon us, I want to address a question that I frequently come across, namely if the weather can have an effect on the tinnitus. The simple answer is, yes. One has to remember...
View ArticleA Happy New Year 2012
I wish everybody a Happy New Year 2012. If you are suffering from tinnitus, hopefully a year that goes some way to improve if not cure the condition. Maybe some of the information here can help you to...
View ArticlePromotion of this Blog
I have decided to start to promote this blog in some blog directories etc. Some of these require that I link back to them. I shall use this entry for any such links in the future:
View ArticleTinnitus and Holidays
A question I come across quite frequently is whether it is advisable to go on holiday with a tinnitus. Many people fear apparently that it could get aggravated. According to my own experience and...
View ArticleTinnitus and Sleep
Sleep problems are probably the most important ones in case of tinnitus, and the ones that people mostly complain about. It is quite obvious that with ear noises suddenly being present, the sleep...
View ArticleDrug Treatment of Tinnnitus - New Research Results
I just found the following press release of the University of Leicester that was already published a few months ago:University of Leicester study identifies key cellular mechanisms behind the onset of...
View ArticlePulsatile Tinnitus
I had recently in my Tinnitus Forum a few people who are suffering from pulsatile Tinnitus.I have personally no experience with this, so I have to rely on the publicly available information here. And...
View ArticleTinnitus Miracle and other Tinnitus Scams
I want to focus in this post on the issue of tinnitus scams, as this can be a problem for any tinnitus suffer who turns to the media for advice, as well as for people and institutions who offer...
View ArticleiPhone/Android Tinnitus Apps
I have discussed already a couple of years ago Sound and Music Therapies. A lot of things have happened in the meanwhile in this field, so I thought I should to give an update here. Whilst one can not...
View ArticleTinnitus and Vitamin B12
Vitamin B12 is well known to be the 'nerve vitamin'. A serious deficiency of it can have serious damaging effects on the brain and nervous system and therewith on the whole body and mind. Even smaller...
View ArticleDrug Treatment of Tinnitus - Research Update
A couple of years ago I quoted a detailed report about a promising research project which showed that the tinnitus is caused by irregular nerve cell activity in the brain stem. It was announced that a...
View ArticleTinnitus Treatment - Antidepressants and Tranquilizers
While antidepressants or tranquilizers are in general not required for a treatment of tinnitus, there may be cases where it makes sense to take them at least for a while. I get many reports from...
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