Tibetan Medicine and Tinnitus
Tibetan Medicine and Tinnitus
I would be curious to know how does TM view this condition and whether it knows ways of alleviating it.
Re: Tibetan Medicine and Tinnitus
Thanks Malcolm.
As far as i know my eardrum is not perforated. I don't have any simptoms that are normally associated with perforated eardrum.
I had slight tinnitus very mild, for the past 8 years or so.
On a scale of 1 to 10 of intensity i would consider to be somewhere around 3 or 4.
But for the past month or so the intensity increased so i would place it around 5 or 6. And whats more anoying is that now it is more constant.
Before it used to go away for short periods llike a day, half day but now it stays constant.
Usually it is very high pitched but sometimes during night especially late night early morning for a short while, 10 or 15 min, it changes pitch to a much lower frenquency.
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chronic, persistent tinnitus is recalcitrant to treatment regardless of the system of medicine. this where it's important to know something about the "natural history" of particular diseases. just because treatments are recommended in textbooks doesn't mean those treatments are highly effective. this one of the benefits of western-style research, whether retrospective or prospective. anecdotal reports are only valuable if they prompt research with a reasonable sized cohort.
Pema Chophel པདྨ་ཆོས་འཕེལ
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Do you mean to say that it doesn't respond well to treatment?pemachophel wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2018 8:54 pm chronic, persistent tinnitus is recalcitrant to treatment regardless of the system of medicine. this where it's important to know something about the "natural history" of particular diseases. just because treatments are recommended in textbooks doesn't mean those treatments are highly effective. this one of the benefits of western-style research, whether retrospective or prospective. anecdotal reports are only valuable if they prompt research with a reasonable sized cohort.
If that, i would sort of agree.
For example western medicine doesn't have a formal clear well defined pathway of treating pure tinnitus unless it is an effect or result of a different underlying condition. In which case one would try to intervine and treat or reduce that primary condition.
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yes, florin, i'm saying that, in my 30 years' experience and also based on what all my medical teachers have told me, chronic, persistent tinnitus is very resistant to treatment regardless of the modality and system.
Pema Chophel པདྨ་ཆོས་འཕེལ
Re: Tibetan Medicine and Tinnitus
Reddit tinnitus method might be worth looking in to. Seems to work for some.
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Re: Tibetan Medicine and Tinnitus
Caffeine seems to make mine worse.
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