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My tinnitus was caused by my blood pressure. Had a heart attack a couple of years ago, they inserted a stent and I drastically modified my bad habits (diet, ex

My tinnitus was caused by my blood pressure. Had a heart attack a couple of years ago, they inserted a stent and I drastically modified my bad habits (diet, exercise, all that), and the constant ringing in my ears vanished. BP now hovers around 100 / 60, resting heart rate in the 70's, and I rarely experience tinnitus any more.

bufferoverflow 6y ago
I got tinnitus due to some health problems caused by bad diet. Got 100% off sugars, alcohol, bread, milk products for 3 months, and most of my health problems went away. I got to warn you, stopping sugar consumption cold turkey is not easy and not nice. That stuff is like (what I imagine) crack. First two weeks were awful.
- SkyMarshal 6y ago
  I found that replacing sugar with a Keto or Paleo (or both) diet and daily green tea, then those diets + green tea's appetite suppressant satiated me enough that I never had any sugar cravings and was able to wean myself off it relatively painlessly.
- frutiger 6y ago
  > I got to warn you, stopping sugar consumption cold turkey is not easy and not nice. Just for another data point, when I moved to the US I did not like the taste of processed sugars in a lot of the standard supermarket food here and found it pretty trivial to give it up.
- wruza 6y ago
  It is called keto flu, iirc. As they say, your body undergoes a metabolic transformation (it knows how to do it from evolution/genes) when you miss carbs and sugar for a while. When I found out, it was so cool that our body can just reconfigure itself for a completely different diet. That is, if it is true, of course, because the entire keto-thing seems to be surrounded by some fog and doubt, for some reason.
ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
I've had pretty severe tinnitus since my 20s (early 40s now), during my early 30s I got very serious about diet/health due to unrelated health issues. I only drink water or coffee, I eat a clean diet with almost no processed sugars and minimal meat, etc etc. My tinnitus is still absolutely horrible, almost always there in some fashion, strong nearly every night, and drives me to near-insanity half a dozen times a month. Just for another perspective.
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- abecedarius 6y ago
  There's a lot of diet advice out there. If minimal meat didn't help you, it's not unthinkable that e.g. maximal meat might. (I'm only making this point because a nudge to try other diets might be helpful to you, and can be done safely. Apologies if it's annoying.)
  - ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
    The minimal-meat thing for me personally is about environmental sustainability and ethics, so not really something I’m willing to sway from. If anything I’m constantly moving more towards less and less meat, even if the opposite could help my tinnitus. I’ve tried lots and lots of different diets (in the balance-of-foods type) over the years though and nothing really helped or harmed the tinnitus in any noticeable way.
- xivzgrev 6y ago
  Agreed, tinnitus can have many causes. Myself, I played drums for a while without ear protection, and viola. I don’t think this treatment would help me. My understanding is there are little hairs that pick up sound waves, and excessive noise can destroy those, and you don’t get them back. The brain fills in with the ringing noise. But I don’t see how the stimulation would reset that process.
  - tobr 6y ago

bufferoverflow 6y ago

I got tinnitus due to some health problems caused by bad diet. Got 100% off sugars, alcohol, bread, milk products for 3 months, and most of my health problems went away. I got to warn you, stopping sugar consumption cold turkey is not easy and not nice. That stuff is like (what I imagine) crack. First two weeks were awful.

SkyMarshal 6y ago
I found that replacing sugar with a Keto or Paleo (or both) diet and daily green tea, then those diets + green tea's appetite suppressant satiated me enough that I never had any sugar cravings and was able to wean myself off it relatively painlessly.
frutiger 6y ago
> I got to warn you, stopping sugar consumption cold turkey is not easy and not nice. Just for another data point, when I moved to the US I did not like the taste of processed sugars in a lot of the standard supermarket food here and found it pretty trivial to give it up.
wruza 6y ago
It is called keto flu, iirc. As they say, your body undergoes a metabolic transformation (it knows how to do it from evolution/genes) when you miss carbs and sugar for a while. When I found out, it was so cool that our body can just reconfigure itself for a completely different diet. That is, if it is true, of course, because the entire keto-thing seems to be surrounded by some fog and doubt, for some reason.

ObsoleteNerd 6y ago

I've had pretty severe tinnitus since my 20s (early 40s now), during my early 30s I got very serious about diet/health due to unrelated health issues. I only drink water or coffee, I eat a clean diet with almost no processed sugars and minimal meat, etc etc. My tinnitus is still absolutely horrible, almost always there in some fashion, strong nearly every night, and drives me to near-insanity half a dozen times a month. Just for another perspective.

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abecedarius 6y ago
There's a lot of diet advice out there. If minimal meat didn't help you, it's not unthinkable that e.g. maximal meat might. (I'm only making this point because a nudge to try other diets might be helpful to you, and can be done safely. Apologies if it's annoying.)
- ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
  The minimal-meat thing for me personally is about environmental sustainability and ethics, so not really something I’m willing to sway from. If anything I’m constantly moving more towards less and less meat, even if the opposite could help my tinnitus. I’ve tried lots and lots of different diets (in the balance-of-foods type) over the years though and nothing really helped or harmed the tinnitus in any noticeable way.
xivzgrev 6y ago
Agreed, tinnitus can have many causes. Myself, I played drums for a while without ear protection, and viola. I don’t think this treatment would help me. My understanding is there are little hairs that pick up sound waves, and excessive noise can destroy those, and you don’t get them back. The brain fills in with the ringing noise. But I don’t see how the stimulation would reset that process.
- tobr 6y ago