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Tinnitus
Tinnitus usually takes the form of unpleasant subjective sounds in the head and ears: more than 50 different sounds have been reported. Musical tinnitus is quite common in later years, though rare in young people.
Tinnitus can also be expressed by sensations of pressure, fullness, pain, or vibrations. as well as extra-sensitive hearing and hearing loss, temporary or permanent. It can sometimes be confusingly similar to jaw joint dysfunction (temporo-mandibular joint dysfunction - TMJ).
In another version of tinnitus - Meniere's syndrome - the balance centre becomes involved, leading to episodes of dizziness or vertigo.
But no matter what form it takes, tinnitus is almost always distressing. It can interfere with concentration by day and disturb sleep at night.
Tinnitus can be brought on by shock or stress of any kind, emotional or physical. It results from nervous system changes stimulated by the activation of the body's "emergency response" to the unconscious perception of threat. Some people are much more susceptible than others to developing tinnitus. (It's been theorized that tinnitus may actually... (full text)
My thanks to Elizabeth Eayrs, Executive Director of the Tinnitus Association of Canada for this introduction (ed.)
Tinnitus Treatments
Modern Western Medicine
Drugs to sedate the inner ear such as prochlorperazine (stemetil) and betahistine (serc) are the mainstay of treatment. These have unpleasant sedative side effects in many people.
Complementary Therapy
Please help us to help you by letting your practitioner know about Shared Care so that they might contact us (email to:- editor(at)shared-care.com) with their evidence to add their therapy to this list.
The therapies/educational systems shown below have been noted as helpful for Tinnitus
These are commonly available:-
| Hypnosis |
| Neurolinguistic Programming |
Please also see Approaches Individual to the Practitioner for lists of those whose approaches don't fall into any specific category
The following practitioners have indicated that they have a special interest in Tinnitus
Please click on the "more.." button for fuller details.
| Mr. | Simon | Henderson | London | Great Britain | |
Tinnitus Blog
Add your contributions to the blog for this page. The button is at the bottom of the page or follow this link to the blog for this page. These can be absolutely anything related to the topic of this page that needs an answer from other members of the community, or a space for you to complain about or comment on anything related to that topic.
Tinnitus Support Groups
The home country of the group is listed. Most will provide more information, advice, contacts and help wherever you live:-
| Australian Tinnitus Association (NSW) | Australia | New South Wales |
| Tinnitus Association of Victoria | Australia | Victoria |
| Tinnitus SA | Australia | South Australia |
| Tinnitus Association of Canada | Canada | National |
| Action for Tinnitus Research | Great Britain | National |
| Birmingham & District Tinnitus Group | Great Britain | West Midlands |
| The British Tinnitus Association | Great Britain | National |
| Irish Tinnitus Association | Ireland | National |
| Tinnitus Association of New Zealand | New Zealand | National |
| America Tinnitus Association | United States of America | National |
| Vestibular Disorders Association (VEDA) | United States of America | National |
Please email editor(at)shared-care.com with the name and URL of your suggestions for additional groups.
Places to Eat and Stay, Tourist, Town and Travel Guides
These sections are designed to provide help in finding restaurants, cafes, hotels, resorts, towns, beaches, travel companies and so on that are user friendly for our communities.
Shopping Zone
Editors Choice
Not all good things come from Amazon. The following are my choices of goodies that I have come across or in which I have had some involvement. If you want to add anything please email me (editor(at)shared-care.com) with details
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | Gluten free cookbook; lots of good recipes |
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | |
| Dr Michaels New Horizons | Self help tapes from No Panic |
| No Panic | |
| Lumie Sunlamp | Sunlamp for SAD (works for me! (ed)) |
| Lumie | |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | Free downloadable book about treating migraine |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | |
| The FISH Plan for Irritable Bowel Syndrome | Free downloadable book about treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
| The FISH Plan for IBS | |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | Necessary dietary reading for everyone |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | |
