Tinnitus
 

Anybody go to the tinnitus meeting at Churchhill the other day

Was it a meeting of Villagers or a sales presentation?

First time I heard anything about it.....
Don

I thought that there was a monthly tinnitus meeting somewhere in TV. they mention it in the Daily Sun.

Z

I think that someone is promoting "natural" supplements to cure tinnitus.


I read that somewhere, lately but can't think where.


I think if there was an easy fix, we would know about it. It is a widespread and common problem and very annoying if you have it.

I've suffered from it since facial nerve surgery in 1977.My kind can be described as like a radiator hissing in another room. My doctor told me to learn to live with it, which I have,or go mad !I lost seventy percent of my hearing in my right ear due to the illness and now a hearing aid helps some.

It's very DAMN annoying. After many early years of working around farm machinery and later years of quarterly range qualifying and additional shooting, my tinnitus is really bad. I started wearing hearing aids a couple of months ago and it's helped mask the incessant ringing somewhat.

I'm fortunate, I have it from working 40 years in on a paper making machine. Mine is a high pitched buzzing but I'm able to block it out except at night at times when everything is quiet. Thus far it has not had a real negative impact on my life. It started two weeks after I retired.

There is a gentleman in The Villages Friendly Folks FB group who gives presentations about it. He is the one who was written up in the paper.

I haven't gone, but I hear it's quite informative.

Tinnitus is rather common and can be VERY annoying
Assuming a doctor has excluded other causes such as acoustic neuroma or cerebropontine angle tumor, there is no "cure"
It will bother you more when it is quiet, so play some music or leave the TV on at night.
You can also try an OTC product, lipoflavenoids. About 50% of my patients who tried it reported it helped. Follow directions on package but you have to use it 2-3 months to see if it works, 1 week won't do it

I tried to attend but the room was full.

People are quick to poo poo "natural" remedies. I think many would be surprised that many of them work to cure and in fact prevent issues.

I don't know what the presentation is about as I haven't gone. What I do know is that I have had good and sometimes GREAT results with natural remedies.

Also keep in mind there is new technology coming out every day. Yes EVERY DAY! Just consider how far we have come with the computer.... We can grow body parts at a record speed. I just had the lens to my bad eye replaced and can see better then I have in over 50 years... I'm told that maybe soon, I can get the bionic eye for my blind eye.

Doctors don't keep up with nutrition or natural cures. They only know medicine. Case in point, when a person's cholesterol starts climbing, the first thing a doctor wants to do is put people on statins. ( I have friends how have had horrible problems with statins) When I ask them if the doctors has mentioned nutrition to get their numbers in check... The answer is always NO!

The LifeLong Learning College has classes on nutrition. They are actually very good. I've talk to people who have done complete turn around with their health by changing just a few things.

What have you got to lose to listen. I understand he isn't selling anything, just informing. We are retired... What does it hurt to hear what he has to say and then do your own research? What else are you going to do?

I have taken some of the classes and even this old dog has learned some new tricks.

Sorry to disagree, but...........

The FIRST thing a patient with hyperlipidemia gets is a low fat/low chol diet. Of course, they don't follow it, but they get it anyway. There are well established guidelines for prescribing statins, the NIH even has an algorithm on their website to determine which patient is a candidate. Long story short---if you have coronary artery disease, you NEED a statin, every study in the world shows that. NOT red rice yeast, NOT some naturopathic concoction, but a statin. Period. If your LDL is over 160 with 0 or 1 risk factor, or over 130 with 2 or more risk factors , you NEED a statin (or else you'll be needing a cardiologist). Everyone else can eat healthy and take whatever snake oil they get sold on
As far as other "natural" remedies go, whatever works for you is fine. But I'll stand by my challenge for anyone to come up with a LEGITIMATE study proving their value. Even the lipoflavenoids I just mentioned have no LEGITIMATE study showing any value.

If you are a doctor, you have just made my point. No one has talked to me or my husband about nutrition, and my husband was prescribed statins. I refused to take them. Both of us have brought our cholesterol down to perfect numbers and my husband is no longer taking statins.

This isn't the first time you have disagreed with me on issues that I know have worked for me.

Again you make my point. Know your own body, because no one else will. Not even your doctor. Do your research, and keep your mind open.

I actually have a friend who did their research about something that happened to their daughter. The doctors knew better and wouldn't listen. The child died.

I don't see how my comment made YOUR point, but we're all friends here so I'm not going to argue. Your physician SHOULD have discussed diet, or had you see a dietician. But all the medical studies agree that in certain classes of elevated cholesterol with certain co-morbidities, that stain therapy is necessary. If someone can bring their LDL down to 70 with diet alone, God bless them, great job. But that is a rarity, believe me.