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The Red Green Tinnitus reducer

Okay, no duct tape but still a little wacky. Since we just had an interesting thread, I thought I'd follow up with this one. I'm wondering if any of you have discovered the same thing or if it's just me. I've had tinnitus for the last ten years. I would not consider it a severe case, albeit significant. Not sure if this is always accompanied by hearing loss but in my case it is due to abuse. I've never made a connection between my tinnitus and itchiness and am still not sure there is one. I'm speaking strictly of the outer ear, nothing to do with my ear canal. I have a constant itch deep in the flesh of my ears, not just surface. The central location is about 2/3 up the outer rim and about 1/4"-1/2" in. Constantly relieving this itch has become almost second nature.
One day while listening to my system I accidentally stumbled on a strange and pleasant phenomenon. Reaching up to relieve my itch while turning to look out my front window and thus focusing the ear in question solely in the direction of the sound, I experienced a marked transitional increase in fidelity. This just blew me away. Not only that, but I also noticed an incidental decrease in my tinnitus simultaneously when experimenting. As I stated, this itch is deep in the flesh of my ears so simply scratching doesn't change anything. I sometimes, not always, pinch said area quite hard between thumb and forefinger with shifting motion. It was during one of those moments this happened. It seems to be pressure that causes it. I have verified it over and over and it is real. Just to clarify, I don't sit clinging to my ears in front of my system. For the most part I consider it a novelty. But it wouldn't take much to build a pair of cool punk clamps for your ears:)
So do any of you out there relate to this? Or willing to discover you do?
csontos
sabai
2,027 posts
 
Psag,

Silver amalgam fillings are 50% mercury -- the most powerful neurotoxin on the planet. They are indeed directly associated with many cases of tinnitus -- although this may not be widely recognized.
donjr
1,335 posts
 
Well I have zero pain and there's no cure and not much has been proven. I'm not a doctor or scientist so that's all I can offer. I'm sure there's much debate about it.
sabai
2,027 posts
 
Donjr,

If you get the fillings replaced by a mercury-free dentist using a special mercury filtration system, and then detoxify the mercury that remains in the organs (including the brain), you can greatly reduce if not eliminate tinnitus that is caused by so-called silver amalgam fillings that are actually 50% mercury.
psag
518 posts
 
Look at the Wikipedia definition of "dysesthesia". Nobody would deny that mercury is toxic. But there is no reason to think that mercury fillings selectively affect the ears. In any case, I suspect a simple audiogram would resolve the issue.
sabai
2,027 posts
 
Psag,

Mercury fillings do not "selectively affect the ears". I did not say that and I did not imply that. Mercury fillings are associated with a wide variety of neurological conditions including tinnitus -- and including many much more serious neurological conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, autism and epilepsy -- to name a few.

By the way, Wikipedia is full of disinformation about neurological conditions -- and many other matters, as well.
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