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Unfortunately I have 3 types of tinnitus: caused by hearing loss, caused by neck muscles, caused by too much stimulus (stress, a long drive, too much caffeine,

Unfortunately I have 3 types of tinnitus: caused by hearing loss, caused by neck muscles, caused by too much stimulus (stress, a long drive, too much caffeine, and so on). Hearing loss can not be healed but the other two types always go away after good sleep. If you got tinnitus it is good to figure out if there is a cause that can be taken away. Sometimes you are in luck and a good deep sleep can improve things.

d23 4y ago
Where do you even find a doctor who can tell you? I haven't been able to get past: "well your hearing looks fine, good luck" (even though I've done independent tests to see that I have significant loss in the tinnitus side above 10khz; they just didn't test that high).
- riffraff 4y ago
  I had the same thought, to be fair, the doctors did get me to make a few exams, but the end result was still "well your hearing looks fine, good luck". It's been a few years now. I'm lucky since the noise in my ear is not too strong and often I don't think about it unless I'm alone in silence, but it somewhat sad to think of never being able to hear silence again.
garganzol 4y ago
>the other two types always go away after good sleep In other words, it seems the other two types of tinnitus are sensitive to the amount of reactive oxygen species (ROS). When you sleep, the ROS are suppressed by glutathione. Then, you feel fresh and rested when you wake up. When you go through your day, the amount of ROS slowly but steadily increases until you sleep and allow glutathione to do its job again. The cycle repeats. Given that your tinnitus seems to depend on ROS, I would suggest to experiment with NAC 600 mg and see whether it improves the symptoms. NAC is a glutathione precursor and causes the immediate suppression of ROS. If there is a correlation then the condition can be treated and improved.
- mdaniel 4y ago
  Is there a medical specialist that one can go talk to about this approach? I am open to trying it, but would rather do so using someone with a medical license versus Internet wisdom
  - garganzol 4y ago
    This is pretty new area so chances that you will be able to find a corresponding specialist around the corner are dim. Probably the closest matches are nutritional neurologists and holistic doctors. There are some public materials by people like Elliot Overton and Sten Ekberg. As far as I know, they do general practices combined with private consulting as well. You can try to reach them remotely or physically by visiting their clinics.
dahart 4y ago
How do you isolate and identify the different causes? I think I have all three of these at times, and I suspect neck muscles because cervical traction seems to help sometimes. But it’s really hard to pin anything down concretely, tinnitus seems so evasive. Sometimes I can’t even match tones I can hear loud and clear when using a tone generator.
- blenderdt 4y ago
  This is just experience over the years. I started to notice what caused it.
chinathrow 4y ago
> Hearing loss can not be healed My friend had a tinnitus for a while and later found out it's due to hearing problems on both ears. He then got hearing aids and the tinnitus went away. So it looks like, _some_ form of hearing loss induced tinnitus can be treated.

d23 4y ago

Where do you even find a doctor who can tell you? I haven't been able to get past: "well your hearing looks fine, good luck" (even though I've done independent tests to see that I have significant loss in the tinnitus side above 10khz; they just didn't test that high).

riffraff 4y ago
I had the same thought, to be fair, the doctors did get me to make a few exams, but the end result was still "well your hearing looks fine, good luck". It's been a few years now. I'm lucky since the noise in my ear is not too strong and often I don't think about it unless I'm alone in silence, but it somewhat sad to think of never being able to hear silence again.

garganzol 4y ago

>the other two types always go away after good sleep In other words, it seems the other two types of tinnitus are sensitive to the amount of reactive oxygen species (ROS). When you sleep, the ROS are suppressed by glutathione. Then, you feel fresh and rested when you wake up. When you go through your day, the amount of ROS slowly but steadily increases until you sleep and allow glutathione to do its job again. The cycle repeats. Given that your tinnitus seems to depend on ROS, I would suggest to experiment with NAC 600 mg and see whether it improves the symptoms. NAC is a glutathione precursor and causes the immediate suppression of ROS. If there is a correlation then the condition can be treated and improved.

mdaniel 4y ago
Is there a medical specialist that one can go talk to about this approach? I am open to trying it, but would rather do so using someone with a medical license versus Internet wisdom
- garganzol 4y ago
  This is pretty new area so chances that you will be able to find a corresponding specialist around the corner are dim. Probably the closest matches are nutritional neurologists and holistic doctors. There are some public materials by people like Elliot Overton and Sten Ekberg. As far as I know, they do general practices combined with private consulting as well. You can try to reach them remotely or physically by visiting their clinics.

dahart 4y ago

How do you isolate and identify the different causes? I think I have all three of these at times, and I suspect neck muscles because cervical traction seems to help sometimes. But it’s really hard to pin anything down concretely, tinnitus seems so evasive. Sometimes I can’t even match tones I can hear loud and clear when using a tone generator.

blenderdt 4y ago
This is just experience over the years. I started to notice what caused it.

chinathrow 4y ago

> Hearing loss can not be healed My friend had a tinnitus for a while and later found out it's due to hearing problems on both ears. He then got hearing aids and the tinnitus went away. So it looks like, _some_ form of hearing loss induced tinnitus can be treated.