Tinn_PPS
2011-01-30 00:10:40 UTC
Hello all, dear tinnitus sufferers.
I have found cure for my tinnitus (in the sense that it's permanent).
Even though it doesn't cure 100% of it, it still reduces it by orders of
magnitude, or at least this is what it did for me.
So I am writing it here now in hope that it can work for somebody else.
I know it sounds like I'm trying to sell something, but it's not the
case. What I describe doesn't imply any meds, supplements or books sold
by me.
Firstly, the story.
- - - The story - - -
In the year 2006 I had to take a strong dose of ketoprofen for 2 weeks.
I had the very bad idea to go to the disco various times for long hours
in those days. I did not know/realize the ketoprofen and the disco would
"interact": the leaflet only mentioned pharmacological interactions...
and with the knowledge I had at that time I couldn't guess that. So I
developed a significant tinnitus (I skip some details here) and when I
realized that, it was already loud.
The next months were the worst of my life: I couldn't sleep, I couldn't
study, I couldn't think of anything else then the tinnitus. I was near
to suicide. BTW it's not true, what some people say, that once you get
asleep the T won't wake you up. I definitely was waking up in the night
because the T volume had raised, and there was no way for me to get
asleep again until it lowered again, all by itself, and every time I did
not know how long I would have had to wait, in the middle of the night,
before being able to sleep again. Luckily after some time I discovered
the untuned radio trick on the internet and this certainly helped at
least with sleeping... but not with studying for example, and I was
still desperate.
So in the months after the "trauma" I tried zillions of meds and
supplements: I tried everything I could find related to tinnitus (I was
almost ready to die in the attempt)... everything that was cited as
potentially beneficial in at least one publication in pubmed, in at
least one website, or in at least one post in the tinnitus forums and
newsgroups. If I couldn't find exactly that substance, I tried to get a
hold of at least 1-2 other substances in the same class.
I even tried auditory retraining CDs, and I even personally wrote
software to synthesize various sounds and sequences of sounds (sweeping
sounds in particular) to try to provoke residual inhibition or re-train
the brain or at least move the T frequency a bit from where it was, but
nothing really improved the situation.
I won't list here all things that I tried, but I'll mention a few of the
most famous ones that I tried and *didn't work* (not even a bit):
- - Ginkgo biloba: up to 360mg/day, which is probably above the maximum
safe dose.
- - Vinpocetine: up to the maximum safe dose (which I don't remember right
now).
- - Hydergine: ditto.
- - Nimodipine: 30mg x 3/day liquid form.
- - N-acetylcysteine: I remember taking at least 6g/day (2g x 3/day),
maybe more.
These were all tried for significantly long periods, like 3 weeks or
more, in approximately this order, and starting soon after the trauma.
And here are the two most famous remedies I *did not try*:
- - Systemic cortisone: I did not learn about this within the time frame
in which it's deemed effective (as per the standard medical protocols).
So, late for late, I decided I would have tried it as very last
medication, since it could have serious permanent side effects. Luckily
I found something that worked before it.
- - Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: because it apparently there wasn't a
facility within the medical jurisdiction where I lived, and outside that
one bureaucratic problems seemed to be huge, so I postponed also this
one to the end of the list.
So after having seen some 6 (or was it 8) ENT doctors, after having
tried DIY desperately for 9 months in a few cases almost killing myself,
after having prayed endlessly (thanks to God!) I found the cure.
This was really exceptional at the 9th month IMO: everywhere is written
that the amount of tinnitus that hasn't been cured within 3 months from
the trauma is basically what will stay permanent throughout life.
Well... I have good news: it's not true. At least in my case at the 9th
month the tinnitus was still almost completely curable.
- - - The cure - - -
The cure I explain here is a mix of rheologically active substances,
plus a few supplements. I'll explain. Firstly, this is the article that
pointed me to the right direction:
Pilgramm M, Schumann K. - "Need for rheologically active, vasoactive and
metabolically active substances in the initial treatment of acute
acoustic trauma." - HNO. 1986 Oct;34(10):424-8.
Current link to abstract is: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2432041
It's amazing how in 1986 these two German scientists already had such a
clear idea of what was needed for tinnitus. I feel like science has
stepped backwards since then.
They did a great job, they were much ahead of time, and they were
totally right as per my experience. Just one last tiny step was missing:
they didn't try to mix two rheologically active substances. This made a
great difference for me.
My method is made of 3 components: Pentoxifylline, Piracetam and
Supplements (P+P+S)
Let's see these one by one:
The first rheologically active substance of this method is
Pentoxifylline. This is taken straight out of Pilgramm-Schumann's paper.
The dose: the dose of Pentoxifylline you need is the one that makes you
significantly drowsy (but don't die for it). This is the technique I
used to estimate the dose for myself and it's the same technique I
suggest to you. At the beginning about 400mg were enough for me for
feeling quite drowsy, but I am quite sensitive to medications so do your
own evaluation. 600 is a normal dose; if you are still not drowsy at 600
I believe you need to go further up (but that's at your risk, like
everything, sorry) I *don't believe* it will work if you are not drowsy.
I took it at bedtime so that the drowsiness was not a problem, and
actually helped for sleeping. Had I taken it during the day, that level
of drowsiness would have been a problem.
The second rheological substance you need is Piracetam.
I was using Piracetam 2400mg at bedtime with Pentoxifylline as
described, plus 2400mg Piracetam in the morning alone (no pentoxifylline
in the morning). The Piracetam was in liquid form but solid form is
probably the same (later on I tried solid form for recursions and it
worked, see below for recursions). It's not possible to dose Piracetam
by the side effects, because it hasn't got side effects, so I'd say your
best bet is to try with 2400+2400mg. You could go higher if you want, as
it's very difficult to harm yourself with Piracetam: e.g. for Cortical
Myoclonus the therapeutic dose of Piracetam is usually 24grams/day; in
some publication up to 45 grams per day were used. If you intend to use
high doses of Piracetam (at your risk, like everything, sorry) you might
want to buy it as a supplement powder instead of medication, for
mitigating the costs.
Please note that Piracetam + Supplements (without Pentoxifylline)
weren't working for me, absolutely. I tried these at a high dose for a
significant period of time and they really didn't work. So I suggest you
don't waste your time and money on these two if you can't also get the
Pentoxifylline.
Pentoxifylline + Supplements instead did work for me a little bit when I
tried them without Piracetam, but very slowly compared to full P+P+S.
You could try to do without Piracetam but be aware that improvements
could be so slow that you could build up tolerance to Pentoxifylline
before it has done enough benefit. I think you should try to get hold of
the three components simultaneously; the only one difficult to find is
Pentoxifylline anyway.
Now regarding the Supplements:
I was taking the following supplements in 2006, and also later on during
recursions (see below for the recursions), and I have the impression,
based on some further tests on the recursions, that they were needed. So
please add the following to the mix:
- - multivitamin+mineral wide spectrum supplement like the "Centrum", at
400%RDA dose. Usually that means 4 tablets/day: 2 morning, 2 bedtime;
this dose is not a problem for a short period of time like a few weeks
or months; in fact our body can bear 400%RDA long term without problems.
I have been taking 400%RDA for many years straight.
- - fats at least 30grams /day (you can use olive oil to reach that
amount, it's a good source).
- - proteins at least 30g /day.
These didn't work for me *alone* but as I said I suspect they are needed
together with P+P. I can't be sure because I have almost always taken
these in my life, independently of tinnitus, also in 2006 I was taking
them. So you are suggested to take them or the P+P might not work for
you. If you report whether it worked for you please also report if you
were taking these supplements.
Warnings and availability of the meds:
Please consider that Pentoxifylline is a prescription medication, it can
be contraindicated for you so you are recommended to go to a doctor for
consultation, and read the leaflet. If Pentoxifylline is not available
in your country there are some online pharmacies that can sell this to
you in a probably legal (depends on your country) way, in particular a
famous Indian one.
Piracetam instead should be very safe. In a few countries it's a
medication, but most often it's a supplement and in fact you can find it
online as powder or capsule form at a low price. If you intend to take a
high dose I would suggest to buy it as a supplement because of the price.
- - - For how long are the meds needed - - -
Not long (for me). I saw the first improvements within the first week.
At the third week improvements were near 90% of what I could obtain. I
kept taking the stuff for about 4 months because I thought that was
probably my only chance and I didn't want to stop. However, I'm not sure
that was wise because I didn't improve much further after the 3rd week,
and in those months I built up some tolerance to pentoxifylline (I need
twice the dose now). So I suggest you to keep taking the stuff until you
see reasonable improvements, plus a few more weeks, then stop.
However, if you have had the tinnitus for years, you will probably need
much more time than me on the medications. So for you it might be like 1
month to see the first benefits instead of 1 week, or more, or less, or
it might not work, who knows... so please do your own experiments and
keep us posted :-)
Clearly if you have had the tinnitus for many years it's also possible
that P+P+S won't work for you, but I would be optimist and try it anyway
because since I cured myself after 9 months, which was considered
already too much, you might as well have worthy benefits even if you
have had it for like 20+ years...
Please note that I'm clearly not affiliated to the producers of
pentoxifylline or piracetam. I honestly want tinnitus sufferers to be
relieved: I know what it means, as I have been there, and I really was
near enough to suicide... with this therapy I have like been given
another life, thanks to God!, so it seems now it's my job to tell around.
- - - How much did I improve and how long did the improvement last - - -
With this P+P+S cure my tinnitus went from clearly audible at daytime in
my study/bed room in a city, to barely (barely!) audible in the same
room in nighttime silence. I tried to reproduce such volume difference
with a software music player having a numeric dB scale, and it seemed it
should be around a 14dB difference. It's dramatic, it's incredible... I
have no words... I would never have hoped that much. That is my new
baseline.
The improvement lasted forever, it's not temporary, now 3 years have
passed so I can really say that. For this reason I call it a "cure" even
though it didn't eradicate exactly 100% of it (but very near to that).
Also, in these years tinnitus never recurred "by itself" (unprovoked).
Now, about the recursions:
My ears are not like new: I have to pay attention to noisy places or
tinnitus might recur. I cannot go to rock concerts: high pitched sounds
like guitars and drums are particularly nasty. Jackhammers also are. If
I go to a noisy place like a rock concert for hours, some amount of my
old tinnitus recurs (but not as stong as in year 2006) and often does
not go away by itself with time, so after 2-3 weeks I can't stand it
anymore and I repeat P+P+S. Just 2-3 days of P+P+S usually are enough to
kick down a recursion, so that it goes back to baseline volume.
- - - Why am I reporting this only now after 3 years - - -
I wanted to be sure the technique was working, that it was not a
transient benefit lasting a few months, I wanted to check how weak were
still my ears (they were still weak) if there were recursions after
exposure to loud noises (there were), if the P+P+S kept working reliably
on recursions (it did), I wanted to try parts of the P+P+S protocol on
the recursions and in particular the Pentoxifylline alone, Piracetam
alone or Supplements alone to see if I could simplify the protocol (but
no, not really). I also wanted to see if I could find something better
(I am working on something but it's not ready yet... maybe in the future
I will report) and so on.
I also had these kind-of-lucky (well not really!) recursions after
exposure to noise, that allowed me to re-test the protocol multiple
times, so I did that.
Anyway... after 3 years I said enough, so I am reporting it... primarily
because tinnitus newcomers should be able to use the P+P+S before it's
too late for them.
- - - How people can reply to this thread - - -
If you try this protocol, it would be very important that you post your
experience with it. People vary, and also tinnitus can have different
causes (traumatic, pharmacological, infection, genetic...) so a single
therapy cannot possibly work for everyone. In fact I'd like to try to
understand what is the scope of this P+P+S (if it even works for anybody
other than me). I don't want to give unrealistically high expectations:
tinnitus is a hard problem and I think we would be lucky even if a
single treatment helped permanently, dunno, 20% of people? Maybe even at
10% only is worth trying? In any case your experience is important.
Also please try to be precise in your report, telling if you followed
all the protocol exactly or only parts of it (please try to follow it
exactly as first attempt), and how much it worked for you. Also tell
your story explaining what type of trauma caused your tinnitus, and for
how long you have suffered from it.
Since people can reply to this thread even years apart, I suggest to
make what I call a "virtual thread": you can reply to this post by
making a post in any newsgroup, in any forum, in any website (*). You
just need to insert the following line in your reply:
Virtual thread id: 81baa44b662764897222313cd26927de
in this way people can enter the word "81baa44b662764897222313cd26927de"
in search engines like Google Groups or normal Google to find all
occurrences of this word on the Internet, and hence, all posts of
anybody related to this subject. That's what I call a virtual thread. I
also will post to the virtual thread if I have updates on this topic.
(*) preferably post to a place that doesn't delete old posts after a
number of years like most forums do. A good place is the Usenet like the
alt.support.tinnitus newsgroup itself. Usenet archives should last
forever, or so we hope, Google Groups seems to store messages forever.
That's it. It's the end of this long post. I hope it helps somebody.
Best of luck and best trials to everybody
tinn_pps (.at.) NOT_THIS shiftmail [.d0t.] com (remove NOT_THIS to
reply directly)
I have found cure for my tinnitus (in the sense that it's permanent).
Even though it doesn't cure 100% of it, it still reduces it by orders of
magnitude, or at least this is what it did for me.
So I am writing it here now in hope that it can work for somebody else.
I know it sounds like I'm trying to sell something, but it's not the
case. What I describe doesn't imply any meds, supplements or books sold
by me.
Firstly, the story.
- - - The story - - -
In the year 2006 I had to take a strong dose of ketoprofen for 2 weeks.
I had the very bad idea to go to the disco various times for long hours
in those days. I did not know/realize the ketoprofen and the disco would
"interact": the leaflet only mentioned pharmacological interactions...
and with the knowledge I had at that time I couldn't guess that. So I
developed a significant tinnitus (I skip some details here) and when I
realized that, it was already loud.
The next months were the worst of my life: I couldn't sleep, I couldn't
study, I couldn't think of anything else then the tinnitus. I was near
to suicide. BTW it's not true, what some people say, that once you get
asleep the T won't wake you up. I definitely was waking up in the night
because the T volume had raised, and there was no way for me to get
asleep again until it lowered again, all by itself, and every time I did
not know how long I would have had to wait, in the middle of the night,
before being able to sleep again. Luckily after some time I discovered
the untuned radio trick on the internet and this certainly helped at
least with sleeping... but not with studying for example, and I was
still desperate.
So in the months after the "trauma" I tried zillions of meds and
supplements: I tried everything I could find related to tinnitus (I was
almost ready to die in the attempt)... everything that was cited as
potentially beneficial in at least one publication in pubmed, in at
least one website, or in at least one post in the tinnitus forums and
newsgroups. If I couldn't find exactly that substance, I tried to get a
hold of at least 1-2 other substances in the same class.
I even tried auditory retraining CDs, and I even personally wrote
software to synthesize various sounds and sequences of sounds (sweeping
sounds in particular) to try to provoke residual inhibition or re-train
the brain or at least move the T frequency a bit from where it was, but
nothing really improved the situation.
I won't list here all things that I tried, but I'll mention a few of the
most famous ones that I tried and *didn't work* (not even a bit):
- - Ginkgo biloba: up to 360mg/day, which is probably above the maximum
safe dose.
- - Vinpocetine: up to the maximum safe dose (which I don't remember right
now).
- - Hydergine: ditto.
- - Nimodipine: 30mg x 3/day liquid form.
- - N-acetylcysteine: I remember taking at least 6g/day (2g x 3/day),
maybe more.
These were all tried for significantly long periods, like 3 weeks or
more, in approximately this order, and starting soon after the trauma.
And here are the two most famous remedies I *did not try*:
- - Systemic cortisone: I did not learn about this within the time frame
in which it's deemed effective (as per the standard medical protocols).
So, late for late, I decided I would have tried it as very last
medication, since it could have serious permanent side effects. Luckily
I found something that worked before it.
- - Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: because it apparently there wasn't a
facility within the medical jurisdiction where I lived, and outside that
one bureaucratic problems seemed to be huge, so I postponed also this
one to the end of the list.
So after having seen some 6 (or was it 8) ENT doctors, after having
tried DIY desperately for 9 months in a few cases almost killing myself,
after having prayed endlessly (thanks to God!) I found the cure.
This was really exceptional at the 9th month IMO: everywhere is written
that the amount of tinnitus that hasn't been cured within 3 months from
the trauma is basically what will stay permanent throughout life.
Well... I have good news: it's not true. At least in my case at the 9th
month the tinnitus was still almost completely curable.
- - - The cure - - -
The cure I explain here is a mix of rheologically active substances,
plus a few supplements. I'll explain. Firstly, this is the article that
pointed me to the right direction:
Pilgramm M, Schumann K. - "Need for rheologically active, vasoactive and
metabolically active substances in the initial treatment of acute
acoustic trauma." - HNO. 1986 Oct;34(10):424-8.
Current link to abstract is: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2432041
It's amazing how in 1986 these two German scientists already had such a
clear idea of what was needed for tinnitus. I feel like science has
stepped backwards since then.
They did a great job, they were much ahead of time, and they were
totally right as per my experience. Just one last tiny step was missing:
they didn't try to mix two rheologically active substances. This made a
great difference for me.
My method is made of 3 components: Pentoxifylline, Piracetam and
Supplements (P+P+S)
Let's see these one by one:
The first rheologically active substance of this method is
Pentoxifylline. This is taken straight out of Pilgramm-Schumann's paper.
The dose: the dose of Pentoxifylline you need is the one that makes you
significantly drowsy (but don't die for it). This is the technique I
used to estimate the dose for myself and it's the same technique I
suggest to you. At the beginning about 400mg were enough for me for
feeling quite drowsy, but I am quite sensitive to medications so do your
own evaluation. 600 is a normal dose; if you are still not drowsy at 600
I believe you need to go further up (but that's at your risk, like
everything, sorry) I *don't believe* it will work if you are not drowsy.
I took it at bedtime so that the drowsiness was not a problem, and
actually helped for sleeping. Had I taken it during the day, that level
of drowsiness would have been a problem.
The second rheological substance you need is Piracetam.
I was using Piracetam 2400mg at bedtime with Pentoxifylline as
described, plus 2400mg Piracetam in the morning alone (no pentoxifylline
in the morning). The Piracetam was in liquid form but solid form is
probably the same (later on I tried solid form for recursions and it
worked, see below for recursions). It's not possible to dose Piracetam
by the side effects, because it hasn't got side effects, so I'd say your
best bet is to try with 2400+2400mg. You could go higher if you want, as
it's very difficult to harm yourself with Piracetam: e.g. for Cortical
Myoclonus the therapeutic dose of Piracetam is usually 24grams/day; in
some publication up to 45 grams per day were used. If you intend to use
high doses of Piracetam (at your risk, like everything, sorry) you might
want to buy it as a supplement powder instead of medication, for
mitigating the costs.
Please note that Piracetam + Supplements (without Pentoxifylline)
weren't working for me, absolutely. I tried these at a high dose for a
significant period of time and they really didn't work. So I suggest you
don't waste your time and money on these two if you can't also get the
Pentoxifylline.
Pentoxifylline + Supplements instead did work for me a little bit when I
tried them without Piracetam, but very slowly compared to full P+P+S.
You could try to do without Piracetam but be aware that improvements
could be so slow that you could build up tolerance to Pentoxifylline
before it has done enough benefit. I think you should try to get hold of
the three components simultaneously; the only one difficult to find is
Pentoxifylline anyway.
Now regarding the Supplements:
I was taking the following supplements in 2006, and also later on during
recursions (see below for the recursions), and I have the impression,
based on some further tests on the recursions, that they were needed. So
please add the following to the mix:
- - multivitamin+mineral wide spectrum supplement like the "Centrum", at
400%RDA dose. Usually that means 4 tablets/day: 2 morning, 2 bedtime;
this dose is not a problem for a short period of time like a few weeks
or months; in fact our body can bear 400%RDA long term without problems.
I have been taking 400%RDA for many years straight.
- - fats at least 30grams /day (you can use olive oil to reach that
amount, it's a good source).
- - proteins at least 30g /day.
These didn't work for me *alone* but as I said I suspect they are needed
together with P+P. I can't be sure because I have almost always taken
these in my life, independently of tinnitus, also in 2006 I was taking
them. So you are suggested to take them or the P+P might not work for
you. If you report whether it worked for you please also report if you
were taking these supplements.
Warnings and availability of the meds:
Please consider that Pentoxifylline is a prescription medication, it can
be contraindicated for you so you are recommended to go to a doctor for
consultation, and read the leaflet. If Pentoxifylline is not available
in your country there are some online pharmacies that can sell this to
you in a probably legal (depends on your country) way, in particular a
famous Indian one.
Piracetam instead should be very safe. In a few countries it's a
medication, but most often it's a supplement and in fact you can find it
online as powder or capsule form at a low price. If you intend to take a
high dose I would suggest to buy it as a supplement because of the price.
- - - For how long are the meds needed - - -
Not long (for me). I saw the first improvements within the first week.
At the third week improvements were near 90% of what I could obtain. I
kept taking the stuff for about 4 months because I thought that was
probably my only chance and I didn't want to stop. However, I'm not sure
that was wise because I didn't improve much further after the 3rd week,
and in those months I built up some tolerance to pentoxifylline (I need
twice the dose now). So I suggest you to keep taking the stuff until you
see reasonable improvements, plus a few more weeks, then stop.
However, if you have had the tinnitus for years, you will probably need
much more time than me on the medications. So for you it might be like 1
month to see the first benefits instead of 1 week, or more, or less, or
it might not work, who knows... so please do your own experiments and
keep us posted :-)
Clearly if you have had the tinnitus for many years it's also possible
that P+P+S won't work for you, but I would be optimist and try it anyway
because since I cured myself after 9 months, which was considered
already too much, you might as well have worthy benefits even if you
have had it for like 20+ years...
Please note that I'm clearly not affiliated to the producers of
pentoxifylline or piracetam. I honestly want tinnitus sufferers to be
relieved: I know what it means, as I have been there, and I really was
near enough to suicide... with this therapy I have like been given
another life, thanks to God!, so it seems now it's my job to tell around.
- - - How much did I improve and how long did the improvement last - - -
With this P+P+S cure my tinnitus went from clearly audible at daytime in
my study/bed room in a city, to barely (barely!) audible in the same
room in nighttime silence. I tried to reproduce such volume difference
with a software music player having a numeric dB scale, and it seemed it
should be around a 14dB difference. It's dramatic, it's incredible... I
have no words... I would never have hoped that much. That is my new
baseline.
The improvement lasted forever, it's not temporary, now 3 years have
passed so I can really say that. For this reason I call it a "cure" even
though it didn't eradicate exactly 100% of it (but very near to that).
Also, in these years tinnitus never recurred "by itself" (unprovoked).
Now, about the recursions:
My ears are not like new: I have to pay attention to noisy places or
tinnitus might recur. I cannot go to rock concerts: high pitched sounds
like guitars and drums are particularly nasty. Jackhammers also are. If
I go to a noisy place like a rock concert for hours, some amount of my
old tinnitus recurs (but not as stong as in year 2006) and often does
not go away by itself with time, so after 2-3 weeks I can't stand it
anymore and I repeat P+P+S. Just 2-3 days of P+P+S usually are enough to
kick down a recursion, so that it goes back to baseline volume.
- - - Why am I reporting this only now after 3 years - - -
I wanted to be sure the technique was working, that it was not a
transient benefit lasting a few months, I wanted to check how weak were
still my ears (they were still weak) if there were recursions after
exposure to loud noises (there were), if the P+P+S kept working reliably
on recursions (it did), I wanted to try parts of the P+P+S protocol on
the recursions and in particular the Pentoxifylline alone, Piracetam
alone or Supplements alone to see if I could simplify the protocol (but
no, not really). I also wanted to see if I could find something better
(I am working on something but it's not ready yet... maybe in the future
I will report) and so on.
I also had these kind-of-lucky (well not really!) recursions after
exposure to noise, that allowed me to re-test the protocol multiple
times, so I did that.
Anyway... after 3 years I said enough, so I am reporting it... primarily
because tinnitus newcomers should be able to use the P+P+S before it's
too late for them.
- - - How people can reply to this thread - - -
If you try this protocol, it would be very important that you post your
experience with it. People vary, and also tinnitus can have different
causes (traumatic, pharmacological, infection, genetic...) so a single
therapy cannot possibly work for everyone. In fact I'd like to try to
understand what is the scope of this P+P+S (if it even works for anybody
other than me). I don't want to give unrealistically high expectations:
tinnitus is a hard problem and I think we would be lucky even if a
single treatment helped permanently, dunno, 20% of people? Maybe even at
10% only is worth trying? In any case your experience is important.
Also please try to be precise in your report, telling if you followed
all the protocol exactly or only parts of it (please try to follow it
exactly as first attempt), and how much it worked for you. Also tell
your story explaining what type of trauma caused your tinnitus, and for
how long you have suffered from it.
Since people can reply to this thread even years apart, I suggest to
make what I call a "virtual thread": you can reply to this post by
making a post in any newsgroup, in any forum, in any website (*). You
just need to insert the following line in your reply:
Virtual thread id: 81baa44b662764897222313cd26927de
in this way people can enter the word "81baa44b662764897222313cd26927de"
in search engines like Google Groups or normal Google to find all
occurrences of this word on the Internet, and hence, all posts of
anybody related to this subject. That's what I call a virtual thread. I
also will post to the virtual thread if I have updates on this topic.
(*) preferably post to a place that doesn't delete old posts after a
number of years like most forums do. A good place is the Usenet like the
alt.support.tinnitus newsgroup itself. Usenet archives should last
forever, or so we hope, Google Groups seems to store messages forever.
That's it. It's the end of this long post. I hope it helps somebody.
Best of luck and best trials to everybody
tinn_pps (.at.) NOT_THIS shiftmail [.d0t.] com (remove NOT_THIS to
reply directly)