Tinnitus remedy?


http://www.empr.com/news/study-evaluates-oxytocin-as-potential-therapy-for-tinnitus/article/524727/
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For all you coffee drinkers that are also Tidal subscribers.

New Playlist:

Death Before Decaf: Songs About Coffee
I've been reading a lot about different frequency & white noise therapy... I've read for years that the problem with Tinnitus is that is gets set in your brain and once it gets locked in,  externals trigger your brain... I've read about 3 different approaches, but the idea is to re train your brain so that you can get actual results.

I didn't starting drinking coffee 'til I was 29, but made up for lost time. I got hooked by a guitarist I was playing with, but he had nothing to do with my tinnitus. He played (R.I.P.) a Telecaster into a '65 blackface Deluxe Reverb!

Thanks for the beans for roasting info mofi, I'm ready to graduate to it. Grinding whole beans was a step up, but I would guess roasting them at home is an even bigger one!

Very interesting. I pulled the abstract of this study--which had zero information about dosing. I'm a medical writer and write about drugs for my living. I also have annoying tinnitus that interferes w/my audio habit--but never heard of oxytocin until today. Believe it or not, you can purchase intranasal oxytocin online, without prescription, for $49.99. Its primary current use is not tinnitus, but for relief of social anxiety arising from autism or social anxiety disorder; in particular, it facilitates the user's making of eye contact with others (something these conditions hinder or render impossible). Live and learn.

Tinnitus is becoming more of a problem for me because my primary audio experience these days is desktop audio (speakers 2 ft from head). That's not as bad as it sounds--I rarely listen at elevated volumes. The real issue is headphone listening, something I'm becoming very fond of & involved with. I know better than to blast the headphones. Still, after 30" of moderate-volume headphone listening, my tinnitus is always worsened for 12+ hours.

Still, I'm one of the lucky ones, insofar as my tinnitus never seems to coalesce into definable tones or notes; rather, it is akin to white noise (if you imagine white noise only from the midrange on up). The really unfortunate ones have tinnitus that sounds like percussion, or repeated, distinct notes. Some tinnitus sufferers have actually committed suicide over this (a horrifying thought). I'm extremely lucky that my tinnitus is indistinct. 

Re coffee: due to my (likely unrelated) extreme migraine issues, I've purposefully moderated my caffeine intake several times in the past 8 years, along with a number of other dietary experiments. Nothing I've ever done w/any food intake, including caffeine, has had a noticeable effect on tinnitus. Instead, tinnitus seems to gradually increase with age, regardless of other factors.