This blog is for tinnitus sufferers, tinnitus researchers, and friends and family of tinnitus sufferers. The goal is to raise awareness about tinnitus and to promote ideas that may help to lead to a cure. There is no cure for chronic severe tinnitus that is caused by non-regenerative cochlear cell damage. However, there are ways to manage tinnitus and the secondary conditions that tinnitus causes.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Tinnitus: Alpha Lipoic Acid
I have been taking the Alpha Lipoic Acid recommended by my doctor. I have experienced no new results as of yet. I will keep you posted.
Update: The Alpha Lipoic Acid did not work for me at all.
So far as I know, the only meds that have shown to be positive in hearing studies (NAC, primarily), are preventatives against hearing LOSS -- so they may not help T.
Medline has a recent study, showing a group of vitamins (beta cartene-A), E, magnesium, C... Guinea pigs give the mixture, were exposed to OUTRAGEOUSLY LOUD noise, then killed, and had their ears "autopsied."
They counted cochlear hairs, and the animals on the MIX, or COCKTAIL, or these vitamins, didn't have as many hair fibers destroyed.
Whether this works with people as well, is anyone's guess.
Also, it may help for hearing LOSS - and not T.
(I'm taking the whole bunch, though, just in case.)
3 comments:
Has the Alpha Lipoc Acid helped?
So far as I know, the only meds that have shown to be positive in hearing studies (NAC, primarily), are preventatives against hearing LOSS -- so they may not help T.
Medline has a recent study, showing a group of vitamins (beta cartene-A), E, magnesium, C... Guinea pigs give the mixture, were exposed to OUTRAGEOUSLY LOUD noise, then killed, and had their ears "autopsied."
They counted cochlear hairs, and the animals on the MIX, or COCKTAIL, or these vitamins, didn't have as many hair fibers destroyed.
Whether this works with people as well, is anyone's guess.
Also, it may help for hearing LOSS - and not T.
(I'm taking the whole bunch, though, just in case.)
Steve are you still out there? if so How can I "talk" to you about how you are coping with this tinitus monster
I'm still here. The Alpha Lipoic Acid has not worked.
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