Tinnitus Help - Stop the Ringing in Your Ears

The joint that keeps our jaws moving is called the temporomandibular joint (TMJ).  If this joint doesn't work quite right, thrown out of alignment through tension and unconscious teeth-grinding as you sleep , you may have something called temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJD or TMD). Your dentist should be the first stop on your list of medical professionals to visit if you're feeling jaw pain. What has your TMJ got to do with tinnitus?  Well, you may not have tinnitus at all if the noise in your head tends to come and go.  If the buzzing or ringing in your ears seems to start (or stop) depending on what you're doing at the time (like crunching an apple) or the position in which you're holding your head, for instance, you should get your jaw alignment looked at. One person who was suffering headaches (along with tinnitus) made the connection, and says that he eliminated at least 80 percent of the problem simply by avoiding crunchy and chewy foods and by being awa

A U.S.-based company called NeuroSystec has developed a new medicine (NST-001) to combat tinnitus. Overactive nerves thought to cause tinnitus are calmed by the drug, administered by using a drug pump implanted in the ear. Although tinnitus has many causes including damage from loud noise(s) as well as adverse side effects of ototoxic medications (including aspirin), the bottom line is the resulting release of a brain chemical (glutamate) causes nerve cells to become hyperactive . The affected nerves in the ear then send faulty messages to the brain, resulting in tinnitus. The new drug "is thought to block the production of excessive glutamate, in turn reducing this rogue nerve firing. Researchers claim it may even result in the elimination of tinnitus." There's been "a small pilot study on human volunteers in Germany, [and] the majority of patients given the drug reported a significant reduction of tinnitus." However, "when the treatment ended, the

At the age of just 24, Jack Wershler suddenly woke up with tinnitus, and it's been with him ever since. He had his hearing checked and was diagnosed with minor hearing loss which he now realizes is from years of listening to loud music in cars and concerts and on ipods.  Like most of us, he'd simply taken his hearing for granted. He wrote an article about his experience, which does not seem to be available online anymore. However, its lesson should not be lost.  E ducation on tinnitus should start (in an age-appropriate manner) at the elementary level. Although not everyone who has the condition got it through noise-induced damage, certainly a large majority of tinnitus sufferers do -- and they just didn't know any better. Noise-induced tinnitus is avoidable , and that's what we need to teach our children. Musician Tony Di Gregorio, who has tinnitus, was quoted in the article as saying that while it can be frustrating talking to people about tinnitus, he is trying

Researchers report that tinnitus sufferers who listened to custom-tailored music over the period of one year reported a significant improvement in their tinnitus — the ringing was not as loud — compared with others who listened to music that was notched at frequencies not corresponding to their ringing frequency. The music technique makes use of recent findings about a possible cause of tinnitus: that noise exposure actually rewires that part of the brain responsible for perceiving sound, and that behavioral training may reverse the problem. Patients simply chose their favorite music. Researchers modified the music by filtering out any frequencies in the music that was the same as the tinnitus noises. Patients then listened to this "notched" music for about 12 hours weekly over the period of one year. Read the full article here . Try Quietum Plus