I have seen some experimental treatment for this condition. Appartantly,
some of the plates in your skull fuse together and cause this problem. Some
physicians use a technique of massaging the skull to loosen the plates
again. Can't hurt to try it.
Stephan
----- Original Message -----
From: Wagner Lipnharski <wagner@USTR.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Tinnitus - was "INVERTE THE WAVE"


> Interesting that you touch the subject. I suffer of Tinnitus during the
> last 18 years. It is a high multiple frequency pitch (around 8kHz), in
> both ears, in a sound intensity that looks like to be always above the
> hearing sound level, all the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days in a week.
> Tinnitus is a perfect worker, never goes out for vacation, never sleeps,
> never got sick and skip a day job... :)    I can hear it at the same
> "audible" intensity in ANY sound ambient, blowing my window glasses with
> my 400 Watts surround or in a complete silence, the tinnitus still there
> all the time, as my forever partner.  There is no possible cure or
> solution, since no science can explain exactly what is it or what causes
> it.  I already made all the possible medical exams during years, not a
> single possible clue.
>
> Medical literature says hearing ringings or high frequency pitch (the
> same as tinnitus) works like a red lamp at your car's panel, it
> indicates something is wrong at your body, but other medical literature
> also says that the "actual tinnitus" simple uses the same lamp but
> doesn't mean the same problem.  It is the same as if the lamp's
> transistor driver short circuit, you can search for the problem source
> forever, not finding it.
>
> I think this subject is totally valid to discuss, since it is known that
> more than 30% of the population is suffering of this thing, and some
> good discoveries are found here and there with natural medicine, plants
> and so on.  I have been reading Internet about Tinnitus for years,
> collected thousands of information. Most of them leads to recognize
> patients with normal-high to high blood pressure, but it is not a rule,
> lots of low blood pressure persons suffer of it also.
>
> Tinnitus never was reported before 1982 or around. Some good percentage
> of tinnitus patients used antibiotics and they are more sensible to sore
> throat and flu viruses. It is a new disease that leads few people also
> to act as crazy and some attempted suicide to get rid of it, terrible.
> There is a special clinic in Georgia that helps strong and difficult
> cases, not controlling it, but helping people in learning how to live
> with it.
>
> It also seems to be present in certain groups, and it is so spread that
> it is impossible to say it is genetically transmitted. My mother has it
> intermittently, as well my small daughter. My wife has is in low
> frequency waves (as sea waves sounds), and talking about it around I
> found out several, several friends and relatives that suffer from it
> from years.
>
> I already made some sound experiences, including white, pink and other
> "color" noises, no result at all.  The only thing that changes the
> tinnitus intensity during one or two seconds is when I bite, (forcing my
> lower against upper teeth), as if the muscle activity around the ears in
> some way causes this change. It is not related to reducing external
> sound by collapsing ear canal or something like that. It is clear that
> the tinnitus intensity was changed.
>
> Interesting is that I can learn how to ignore lots of background sounds,
> except for tinnitus. It looks like that it is generated far ahead of the
> place where it can be ignored or controlled.
>
> Again I am sorry by the long text, but millions of people are in search
> for a cure, or at least to help in reducing this annoying noisy signal,
> am I pissed off to not be able to use a Tektronix scope to locate the
> source of it and cut some wires....  I simply can not remember anymore
> how is a quiet and normal summer afternoon silence.
>
> Wagner
>
> Jinx wrote:
> >
> > From: Wagner Lipnharski
> > >
> > > Once at the new IBM building in Curitiba city (Brazil), it was
installed
> > > white noise generators to blast down room to room human voice.  White
> > > noise is something your hearing can ignore, but it takes down a great
> > > level of ambient sounds too.
> >
> > The same technique used to relieve tinnitus. The patient is fed white
> > noise, which they soon become used to and ignore. As the volume of the
> > white noise is gradually reduced over a period of time, it "takes" the
> > tinnitus with it as the patient's auditory system adjusts