TMJ dysfunction. Multiple readers point out that temporomandibular joint dysfunction, chronic jaw clenching often combined with forward head posture, produces tinnitus through mechanical irritation of the auditory nerve where it passes adjacent to the jaw joint. This belongs in the essay as a distinct pathway and is not addressed in the published version. The mechanism is real, the prevalence is real, and the conventional medical response of antidepressants is exactly the suppression the essay describes elsewhere. Jaya Jeff Sims reports resolving tinnitus more than 50% of the time through manual therapy on the muscles of the neck, jaw, and scalp. This is consistent with the same mechanism. I will integrate it in a future update.
Mercury and amalgam. STH reports tinnitus resolution through Andy Cutler-protocol chelation over a year or two. This fits the terrain reading precisely. Mercury is named in the essay as one of the chemical ototoxins NIOSH documents, but the specific role of dental amalgam, mercury vapor released chronically during chewing and deposited in central nervous tissue, deserved more attention than it received.
DMSO. Multiple readers are using DMSO for tinnitus with reported improvement. A Midwestern Doctor's protocols are an excellent practical reference. My own book on DMSO covers the substance in depth. For inner-ear applications, MWD's writing is the strongest specific guidance currently in circulation.
Living with it. Richard Noakes describes living in silence and treating the ringing as a familiar companion rather than an enemy. This is honest territory the essay does not enter. For people whose damage is permanent, accommodation is sometimes the only path. The essay's argument is that the damage was preventable. That argument does not help the person already injured. Acceptance is its own answer.
Great write up. For others benefit- I’ve tried nicotine, dmso, massaging/tai chi 5 points around the ear, none of which improved it- and homeopathy (whic used to help a bit! And 2 ½ months of acupuncture and massage which seemed to help tiny bit but regressed when I stopped.)
Seems worse w lots of flying which I’ve had to do the last few years.
I do have the forward head posture and tmj. And amalgam’s.
I had Tinnitus for many years - mine was caused by working with industrial forklifts in a brick works where we were not allowed to wear hearing suppressors because of the possibility of killing someone, if we ran them over.
I found that by living in silence, the noises in my ears and hence in my head became bearable and eventually went away and now I live in silence - but the other way was to mentally accept the noises as being my friend and being there all the time and finding comfort in that, because there was no obvious way to get rid of them otherwise.
I was told that deep sea divers had the same results as those I had.
I can't wear hearing aids now, because they amplify sound which causes my Tinnitus to flare up again, so I have Industrial Deafness and I live in silence.
I had tinnitus for years. In 2017 I started mercury chelation using the Andy Cutler method. You do weekly “rounds” 3 days on 4 days off. On every round while I was moving mercury my tinnitus would increase in intensity and then settle to a low background noise when off round. After a year or two it gradually went away and I haven’t had it since. So for me it was mercury.
please explain "Living in silence". Does this mean you are actually DEAF or simply don't listen to music or TV or radio and live alone in a home mostly insulated from outside ambient noises?
NOTE: I notice my tinnitus flares a bit right after I have been in a high noise environment. THis must be common. . .
As one who has Tinnitus, the precursors you lay out bring alarm in the context of the pharmaceutical industrial complex where humans are the extraction target, but also that of caution in the ambient noise environment throughout all phases of life.
When I was young and my hearing was excellent and all the biological elements were working as designed, I didn't worry about ambient noise protection so much as I did not think about the cumulative damage over time. Then by my twenties, I took much more care regarding hearing protection. Now in my sixties and having recently survived bacterial meningitis, and hearing loss effect from it, I'm more cognizant than ever to protecting hearing and staying away from any sort of Pharma product even more so than ever.
One thing I think should be done everywhere in the west, including and specifically in America, is the repeal of all liability exemption laws for Pharma companies and make it retroactive to say the 1950's. There is not a single Pharma product I can think of that is not literally a toxin to the human body, yet these profiteers are exempt from ANY liability relating to their products. They should all be open to being sued by those they have injured with their products.
I mostly agree but PROOF, irrefutable proof, is important too. Any company can be killed by enough lawsuits and if the bar is excessively low, there will be no company at all willing to do REAL research to explore ANY disease or malady-- like tinnitus.
Pharma is the only sector with liability immunity. Surgical, mechanical medical devices, naturopathic and physical therapy sectors in medicine DO NOT enjoy this immunity from liability. Yet, these other sectors of medicine seem to innovate and produce value for the people. Further to that, the research and development in the non-liability immunity sectors of medicine seem to forge ahead with capital deployed into REAL research as you say.
It is not a rational argument to intone that without these blanket absolutions of accountability, no REAL research or advancement would take place.
Why is it that ONLY pharma has this immunity from liability? Follow the money and you will always find the reasons for the grift and fraud.
You failed to understand my rather simple point regarding proof.
I did not dispute lawsuit liability but made the second point that punishing wrongly or for political reasons promotes LESS research and development of innovative products that take huge capital, long term passion and determination, and a corporation that believes at least as much in humanity as profits.
Big money will always temper if not outright squash advancements, especially if their profit margin suffers from said advancements (i.e. cures for cancer).
Great explanation and a very innovative approach. 50% good response rate is significant. It may be that tinnitus is caused by a wide range of main factors and your exploratory work with muscles under stress(tension) addresses that particular cause.
Suggestion: Try to document every case, regardless of positive results. NUMBERS is the key in statistical power. If there is any way to measure the level of anecdotal tension you see in clients(perhaps FMIR?) that would be a great index to complement your results and show correlation. Documenting demographics of each could be enlightening too.
My deep research and experience with this has led to the conclusion the most common cause of tinnitus is NONE OF THE ABOVE but nervous tension which causes *chronic* jaw clenching which causes jaw dysfunction (TMJ dysfunction).
This is not tooth grinding and damage to teeth may be minimal. When that clenching is combined with chronic forward head posture ( very common now with the personal alienation devices), the muscles reponsible for chewing ( and clenching) become enlargened over time ( hypertrophy) and start hitting the hearing nerves which are right next to the jaw joints, which become irritated and start producing the tinnitus sounds.
If tinnitus is accompanied by pain in the jaw/face/neck/sides and back of head ( occipital area) and a stiff/crunchy/ painful neck , then the above is 100% the issue and not hearing damage! Pregabalin or gabapentin are the only drugs I am aware of that can relieve the symptoms but they wil fix nothing... Physical therapy and probably therapy for chronic anxiety are the only chances of a treatment!
Mainstream medical practice in the west is largely ignoring this issue and at best will offer anti-depressants!
Yes! The TMJ for me is exacerbated greatly after dental work has been done and has led to the pulsitile tinnitis afterwards. I applied some DMSO to my TM joints after the dental work and the pain decreased substantially and the pulsitile tinnitus went away after one day. That is a truly horrible form of tinnitus. I have had the buzzing in my ears from a young age probably due to many antibiotics used for tonsilitis. The sound intensified after a vaccine in my twenties.
I'm 76 and have had tinnitus since age 36, following an acute sinus infection. I am not on medication and avoid the doctor. At first, I thought I'd go mad, but have learnt to live with it. I go to sleep listening to podcasts, which helps. Apart from having to say "Pardon" in conversations frequently - which annoys my children! - I envisage the noise as a waterfall in my head. Other than that, "c'est la vie".
If I experience a "cure" (even temporarily) for the serious tinnitus which has afflicted me ever since my son was twice Pfizered in 2021 (we lived in very close quarters...) then I will update you. If possible.
Meanwhile: "C'est la vie. C'est la guerre" Frances. It's war. 🤷♂️
Tinnitus is slowly driving me crazy but I'm not a giver-upper so wish me luck. 🙏
Hi, helping hands - I empathize with your tinnitus. It's not through lack of trying that I haven't tried to cure it. I even paid to get a specialist opinion years ago - waste of money. Considering that so many people suffer from it, you'd think that something could be done. Must add that stress exacerbates it - discovered after my partner died. I hope that you don't get driven crazy. Bon courage!!
There’s another insult pathway not mentioned in this otherwise excellent article.
The reason for many/most/all illnesses – unless caused by direct poisoning through ototoxic drugs as described in the article - are psychic. Stress, for example which is often associated with tinnitus. So my first approach would be to work on your peace of mind. Meditation, psychotherapy, rediscovering nature, anything that connects you with your self. Of course a) this is hard work compared to ingesting something and continuing with the lifestyle that led to the disability in the first place, and b) this can’t be patented. So you won’t hear from it from the usual sources. Nothing wrong with testing out DMSO but you are saddling the horse backwards. Goes for all illnesses BTW, especially the chronic ones.
I have a static sound in one ear. It started after taking doxycycline for a tick bite. I had read tinnitus may be a side effect later. I don’t dwell on it and treat it like white noise. During the day I’m not bothered at all. At night I run a box fan loud and despite the tinnitus I sleep better because I don’t like silence when I sleep. I haven’t tried anything for it. Good to know this all above however.
You have no idea, Adam Antium, of the magnitude of your erroneous statement. DMSO is an amazing substance that defies all slanders. Please educate yourself, and stop the ignorant pro-pharma propaganda, respectfully.
So deleted is finally identified, albeit Adam Antium is likely fictitious. I have noticed his/her comments (they’re always deleted before I could read them). If such comments are pro harmya, I’m not missing anything. Thanks for solving that mystery! :)
Every once in a while, every now and then again, the ringing stops. Maybe for an hour there’s complete silence. It’s like standing alone in a dark, vacant room and feeling the emptiness around you - the complete quietness of a sunless and airless vacuum. If it can stop for an hour, why not for forever?.
I have had tinnitus for most of my adult life as a result of a dental procedure (a tooth extraction, as I recall). Since that time, I have had constant ringing, with slightly different tones in each eat. I think that there is damage to my acoustic nerve (cranial nerve VIii). Someone with extensive background in Chinese medicine recommended DMSO, but I have found very little on how to administer it.
I have been using DMSO after reading MWD and also Unbecoming’s extensive book on it. I made a 50-50 solution with magnesium chloride. It’s not helping me yet, but I have just started.
I take the 99 % internally, about 10 drops on my food (Midwestern doc takes it in hibiscus tea). On my skin I use rollers of 75 % dmso and lavender or aloe vera oils. I get these ready made at the Florida DMSO store.
I apply a 70% solution (comes in a gel) behind my ears and inside my ears…applied with a Q-Tip.
It itches! I’ve only been doing it for a few days so I can’t comment on its effectiveness.
But I swear, if this doesn’t work I’m headed to the asylum. Mine is so loud that if I dwell on it for any amount of time, I’m certain insanity will follow.
I put it behind my ears and I couldn't stand the itching so had to wipe it off. Probably better to apply in the morning when daytime activities distract. Would like to drop it in the ears but not brave enough yet. Have read MWD's info but not much info on dosage for tinnitus. Would appreciate any info.
MWD had a link to Unbecoming’s DMSO book for free. There are ideas for diluting DMSO with other things - distilled water or magnesium… specifically for eyes and ears, and does talk about tinnitus
Midwestern doctor has been writing about Dmso for quite some time. I was very hesitant to try it for my returning headaches, more than a year, but once I used it the headaches are good as gone, and so are the nightly cramps in my ears. Yes, some say it is poisonous, but is there any allopathic safe med? Even some natural meds are not. I am glad to get rid of the headaches! I just use about 10 drops on my food every day, and have a little roller in case I hurt myself.
Tinnitus is one of those issues where the body is clearly telling you something is off, but the medical system often treats the signal itself as the whole problem. The useful framing is systems-first: look for the load, the exposure, and the thing that changed before the sound showed up.
To the person who sent a link to a medicine girl article - I cannot find your comment, but I read some of medicine girl and found some anomalies in her articles, too. Dr. Geoff Pain disadvised Dmso as well, because it is toxic. But vitD is even more toxic and gets advised by almost all doctors. I recently read, that the test for vitD only finds the chemical, not the natural vitD. So then, everyone is deficient. As to Dmso, lots of reactions on the sites that describe its working, and I can only add the disappearance of a headache I had for more than a year, and the end of the cramped legs. May be it does not work for everyone, and may be some people are allergic to it, but for me, it worked!
Thank you again for the article, the cogent arguments are wonderful. I have two people already in mind who will receive this information, to help them.
I was happy to see this article today, since my tinnitus started just 3 days ago! I use DMSO for other things, so I immediately checked with A Midwestern Doctor to see what was there about DMSO for tinnitus, then started using it in the one ear that has it. It has helped immensely already. There is just a minor buzzing now that is very tolerable, after just 3 days of use. Of course, I hope it goes away totally, but if not, I think I could live with it.
It's DMSO 16 oz. Pure 99.995% Liquid | USP Grade Dimethyl Sulfoxide | Non-diluted | Low Odor | BPA Free
It comes in a plastic bottle, but I pour it into a glass bottle when it arrives. It's $19.99 for Prime Day, but normally $21.99. Almost forgot to mention that I dilute it 50/50 with purified water. Hope you try it!
I too suffer. My tinnitus also beats with my pulse, so you have described what is possibly my issue. I suppose I might try magnesium, and also things that would 'clean out' my vessels, such as apple cider vinegar ingestion. I am a brass player (trombone) and had to quit a jazzband when my post rehearsal tinnitus became too prevalent, (I was seated in front of the trumpets). I do wonder how brass playing may cause some problems, as the entire head is filled with sound when you play. I suppose there may be some studies on that to find. But I do have to say, the tinnitus became a constant issue after I had a smutmeter installed on my house in 2019. I have since moved and had relief when I can be out of wifi for sustained periods, and as we all know, that is infrequent these days for most populated areas.
Author's Note
TMJ dysfunction. Multiple readers point out that temporomandibular joint dysfunction, chronic jaw clenching often combined with forward head posture, produces tinnitus through mechanical irritation of the auditory nerve where it passes adjacent to the jaw joint. This belongs in the essay as a distinct pathway and is not addressed in the published version. The mechanism is real, the prevalence is real, and the conventional medical response of antidepressants is exactly the suppression the essay describes elsewhere. Jaya Jeff Sims reports resolving tinnitus more than 50% of the time through manual therapy on the muscles of the neck, jaw, and scalp. This is consistent with the same mechanism. I will integrate it in a future update.
Mercury and amalgam. STH reports tinnitus resolution through Andy Cutler-protocol chelation over a year or two. This fits the terrain reading precisely. Mercury is named in the essay as one of the chemical ototoxins NIOSH documents, but the specific role of dental amalgam, mercury vapor released chronically during chewing and deposited in central nervous tissue, deserved more attention than it received.
DMSO. Multiple readers are using DMSO for tinnitus with reported improvement. A Midwestern Doctor's protocols are an excellent practical reference. My own book on DMSO covers the substance in depth. For inner-ear applications, MWD's writing is the strongest specific guidance currently in circulation.
Living with it. Richard Noakes describes living in silence and treating the ringing as a familiar companion rather than an enemy. This is honest territory the essay does not enter. For people whose damage is permanent, accommodation is sometimes the only path. The essay's argument is that the damage was preventable. That argument does not help the person already injured. Acceptance is its own answer.
Thank you all.
Great write up. For others benefit- I’ve tried nicotine, dmso, massaging/tai chi 5 points around the ear, none of which improved it- and homeopathy (whic used to help a bit! And 2 ½ months of acupuncture and massage which seemed to help tiny bit but regressed when I stopped.)
Seems worse w lots of flying which I’ve had to do the last few years.
I do have the forward head posture and tmj. And amalgam’s.
Thanks for your excellent work!
I had Tinnitus for many years - mine was caused by working with industrial forklifts in a brick works where we were not allowed to wear hearing suppressors because of the possibility of killing someone, if we ran them over.
I found that by living in silence, the noises in my ears and hence in my head became bearable and eventually went away and now I live in silence - but the other way was to mentally accept the noises as being my friend and being there all the time and finding comfort in that, because there was no obvious way to get rid of them otherwise.
I was told that deep sea divers had the same results as those I had.
I can't wear hearing aids now, because they amplify sound which causes my Tinnitus to flare up again, so I have Industrial Deafness and I live in silence.
I had tinnitus for years. In 2017 I started mercury chelation using the Andy Cutler method. You do weekly “rounds” 3 days on 4 days off. On every round while I was moving mercury my tinnitus would increase in intensity and then settle to a low background noise when off round. After a year or two it gradually went away and I haven’t had it since. So for me it was mercury.
STH - Mercury is in our silver tooth fillings - could this be another cause of tinnitus?
Yes I had 9 amalgams removed prior to chelation. That was my source.
STH - Wow! You've been working hard on getting healthy. Good job!
I, too am in the process of removing amalgam fillings.
Interesting!
Did they have to remove the entire tooth or just the amalgam?
That sounds like a lot of expensive new teeth.
My dentist coded them as failing since tbey were decades old, so insurance covered most of it. I needed two crowns.
please explain "Living in silence". Does this mean you are actually DEAF or simply don't listen to music or TV or radio and live alone in a home mostly insulated from outside ambient noises?
NOTE: I notice my tinnitus flares a bit right after I have been in a high noise environment. THis must be common. . .
Exceptional essay.
As one who has Tinnitus, the precursors you lay out bring alarm in the context of the pharmaceutical industrial complex where humans are the extraction target, but also that of caution in the ambient noise environment throughout all phases of life.
When I was young and my hearing was excellent and all the biological elements were working as designed, I didn't worry about ambient noise protection so much as I did not think about the cumulative damage over time. Then by my twenties, I took much more care regarding hearing protection. Now in my sixties and having recently survived bacterial meningitis, and hearing loss effect from it, I'm more cognizant than ever to protecting hearing and staying away from any sort of Pharma product even more so than ever.
One thing I think should be done everywhere in the west, including and specifically in America, is the repeal of all liability exemption laws for Pharma companies and make it retroactive to say the 1950's. There is not a single Pharma product I can think of that is not literally a toxin to the human body, yet these profiteers are exempt from ANY liability relating to their products. They should all be open to being sued by those they have injured with their products.
I mostly agree but PROOF, irrefutable proof, is important too. Any company can be killed by enough lawsuits and if the bar is excessively low, there will be no company at all willing to do REAL research to explore ANY disease or malady-- like tinnitus.
Pharma is the only sector with liability immunity. Surgical, mechanical medical devices, naturopathic and physical therapy sectors in medicine DO NOT enjoy this immunity from liability. Yet, these other sectors of medicine seem to innovate and produce value for the people. Further to that, the research and development in the non-liability immunity sectors of medicine seem to forge ahead with capital deployed into REAL research as you say.
It is not a rational argument to intone that without these blanket absolutions of accountability, no REAL research or advancement would take place.
Why is it that ONLY pharma has this immunity from liability? Follow the money and you will always find the reasons for the grift and fraud.
You failed to understand my rather simple point regarding proof.
I did not dispute lawsuit liability but made the second point that punishing wrongly or for political reasons promotes LESS research and development of innovative products that take huge capital, long term passion and determination, and a corporation that believes at least as much in humanity as profits.
Big money will always temper if not outright squash advancements, especially if their profit margin suffers from said advancements (i.e. cures for cancer).
Using manual therapy techniques I’ve been able to successfully resolve cases of tinnitus more than 50%of the time — sometimes in one treatment.
Can you elaborate on that?
I’m writing this extemporaneously.
Let’s begin by identifying the structures treated and include:
The strtnocliefomastoid, upper trapezius, the suborbitals, cervical extensors, the scalenes and deep neck flexors muscles of the neck.
The masseter, temporalis and both ptetygoid muscles of the jaw.
The fascia of the scalp.
The tissues of the ear.
The manual techniques include pincer grasps, pin & stretch, friction, compression, gliding, traction and others I’m not recalling.
I also use active ROM, passive ROM and muscle energy techniques like post isometric relaxation.
I’ve probably treated several dozen clients.
Most, but not all believe I can help. The stronger the belief it seems the more likely a positive result.
The side effects are improved range of motion, the elimination or reduction in chronic pain and euphoria.
That’s what I’m recalling for now.
Have I been responsive?
Great explanation and a very innovative approach. 50% good response rate is significant. It may be that tinnitus is caused by a wide range of main factors and your exploratory work with muscles under stress(tension) addresses that particular cause.
Suggestion: Try to document every case, regardless of positive results. NUMBERS is the key in statistical power. If there is any way to measure the level of anecdotal tension you see in clients(perhaps FMIR?) that would be a great index to complement your results and show correlation. Documenting demographics of each could be enlightening too.
Good luck.
Thanks for your interest and suggestions.
I’m curious. Would you mind comparing my work with physicians’?
IMO the above is not the full picture.
My deep research and experience with this has led to the conclusion the most common cause of tinnitus is NONE OF THE ABOVE but nervous tension which causes *chronic* jaw clenching which causes jaw dysfunction (TMJ dysfunction).
This is not tooth grinding and damage to teeth may be minimal. When that clenching is combined with chronic forward head posture ( very common now with the personal alienation devices), the muscles reponsible for chewing ( and clenching) become enlargened over time ( hypertrophy) and start hitting the hearing nerves which are right next to the jaw joints, which become irritated and start producing the tinnitus sounds.
If tinnitus is accompanied by pain in the jaw/face/neck/sides and back of head ( occipital area) and a stiff/crunchy/ painful neck , then the above is 100% the issue and not hearing damage! Pregabalin or gabapentin are the only drugs I am aware of that can relieve the symptoms but they wil fix nothing... Physical therapy and probably therapy for chronic anxiety are the only chances of a treatment!
Mainstream medical practice in the west is largely ignoring this issue and at best will offer anti-depressants!
Yes! The TMJ for me is exacerbated greatly after dental work has been done and has led to the pulsitile tinnitis afterwards. I applied some DMSO to my TM joints after the dental work and the pain decreased substantially and the pulsitile tinnitus went away after one day. That is a truly horrible form of tinnitus. I have had the buzzing in my ears from a young age probably due to many antibiotics used for tonsilitis. The sound intensified after a vaccine in my twenties.
I'm 76 and have had tinnitus since age 36, following an acute sinus infection. I am not on medication and avoid the doctor. At first, I thought I'd go mad, but have learnt to live with it. I go to sleep listening to podcasts, which helps. Apart from having to say "Pardon" in conversations frequently - which annoys my children! - I envisage the noise as a waterfall in my head. Other than that, "c'est la vie".
If I experience a "cure" (even temporarily) for the serious tinnitus which has afflicted me ever since my son was twice Pfizered in 2021 (we lived in very close quarters...) then I will update you. If possible.
Meanwhile: "C'est la vie. C'est la guerre" Frances. It's war. 🤷♂️
Tinnitus is slowly driving me crazy but I'm not a giver-upper so wish me luck. 🙏
Hi, helping hands - I empathize with your tinnitus. It's not through lack of trying that I haven't tried to cure it. I even paid to get a specialist opinion years ago - waste of money. Considering that so many people suffer from it, you'd think that something could be done. Must add that stress exacerbates it - discovered after my partner died. I hope that you don't get driven crazy. Bon courage!!
There’s another insult pathway not mentioned in this otherwise excellent article.
The reason for many/most/all illnesses – unless caused by direct poisoning through ototoxic drugs as described in the article - are psychic. Stress, for example which is often associated with tinnitus. So my first approach would be to work on your peace of mind. Meditation, psychotherapy, rediscovering nature, anything that connects you with your self. Of course a) this is hard work compared to ingesting something and continuing with the lifestyle that led to the disability in the first place, and b) this can’t be patented. So you won’t hear from it from the usual sources. Nothing wrong with testing out DMSO but you are saddling the horse backwards. Goes for all illnesses BTW, especially the chronic ones.
I have a static sound in one ear. It started after taking doxycycline for a tick bite. I had read tinnitus may be a side effect later. I don’t dwell on it and treat it like white noise. During the day I’m not bothered at all. At night I run a box fan loud and despite the tinnitus I sleep better because I don’t like silence when I sleep. I haven’t tried anything for it. Good to know this all above however.
You have no idea, Adam Antium, of the magnitude of your erroneous statement. DMSO is an amazing substance that defies all slanders. Please educate yourself, and stop the ignorant pro-pharma propaganda, respectfully.
So deleted is finally identified, albeit Adam Antium is likely fictitious. I have noticed his/her comments (they’re always deleted before I could read them). If such comments are pro harmya, I’m not missing anything. Thanks for solving that mystery! :)
Every once in a while, every now and then again, the ringing stops. Maybe for an hour there’s complete silence. It’s like standing alone in a dark, vacant room and feeling the emptiness around you - the complete quietness of a sunless and airless vacuum. If it can stop for an hour, why not for forever?.
The independent have cribbed your excellent piece on Tinnitus mate.
https://apple.news/ADKnvkp1ITZyyEYMQLW0iVg
I have had tinnitus for most of my adult life as a result of a dental procedure (a tooth extraction, as I recall). Since that time, I have had constant ringing, with slightly different tones in each eat. I think that there is damage to my acoustic nerve (cranial nerve VIii). Someone with extensive background in Chinese medicine recommended DMSO, but I have found very little on how to administer it.
Weekly ivermectin seems to help our tinnitus, which began after second bout of Covid. Midwestern Doctor offers detailed info on using DMSO for a variety of conditions, including tinnitus: Example https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-dmso-cures-eye-ear-nose-throat
I have been using DMSO for my tinnitus for about 6 years.
Is it helpful? Assuming yes since you have continued 😊
Yes, very. I should have said. Sorry
do you apply it topically and if so where and at what dilution please
I have been using DMSO after reading MWD and also Unbecoming’s extensive book on it. I made a 50-50 solution with magnesium chloride. It’s not helping me yet, but I have just started.
I take the 99 % internally, about 10 drops on my food (Midwestern doc takes it in hibiscus tea). On my skin I use rollers of 75 % dmso and lavender or aloe vera oils. I get these ready made at the Florida DMSO store.
I don’t have any miracle cure moments. My body to take a while to react to changes. I am persistent. Hang in.
How are you using it?
Look at Big E’s comment. I follow a MWD. I also experiment.
Could you tell us how you use it?
Hi Big E, sorry I had not read your comment before I put up mine. Glad you have the Midwestern doc's article at the ready.
I’m using DMSO for my tinnitus.
I apply a 70% solution (comes in a gel) behind my ears and inside my ears…applied with a Q-Tip.
It itches! I’ve only been doing it for a few days so I can’t comment on its effectiveness.
But I swear, if this doesn’t work I’m headed to the asylum. Mine is so loud that if I dwell on it for any amount of time, I’m certain insanity will follow.
try to add it to a fatty salve (I use marigold natural salve).
I hear you.
I just paid this article forward to someone whose loved one suffers from tinnitus. As do I.
My research is 5 years long thus far.
I commented to this person that I fear insanity if I don't experience some relief. (Not in jest.)
Good luck. 🙏
I put it behind my ears and I couldn't stand the itching so had to wipe it off. Probably better to apply in the morning when daytime activities distract. Would like to drop it in the ears but not brave enough yet. Have read MWD's info but not much info on dosage for tinnitus. Would appreciate any info.
MWD had a link to Unbecoming’s DMSO book for free. There are ideas for diluting DMSO with other things - distilled water or magnesium… specifically for eyes and ears, and does talk about tinnitus
Dr. Amandha Vollmer is an excellent resource for all DMSO information. She even wrote a book...................https://amandhavollmer.substack.com/p/a-brief-intro-to-dmso-by-adv
Look up 'A Midwestern Doctor ' here on substack. Has an exhaustive series on DMSO
I did. He has very little on tinnitus.
Midwestern doctor has been writing about Dmso for quite some time. I was very hesitant to try it for my returning headaches, more than a year, but once I used it the headaches are good as gone, and so are the nightly cramps in my ears. Yes, some say it is poisonous, but is there any allopathic safe med? Even some natural meds are not. I am glad to get rid of the headaches! I just use about 10 drops on my food every day, and have a little roller in case I hurt myself.
Ironically everything is poisonous at certain levels. Water will kill you too, if you drink too much too fast.
Tinnitus is one of those issues where the body is clearly telling you something is off, but the medical system often treats the signal itself as the whole problem. The useful framing is systems-first: look for the load, the exposure, and the thing that changed before the sound showed up.
Yes. I believe I connected the dots, in my particular case.
To the person who sent a link to a medicine girl article - I cannot find your comment, but I read some of medicine girl and found some anomalies in her articles, too. Dr. Geoff Pain disadvised Dmso as well, because it is toxic. But vitD is even more toxic and gets advised by almost all doctors. I recently read, that the test for vitD only finds the chemical, not the natural vitD. So then, everyone is deficient. As to Dmso, lots of reactions on the sites that describe its working, and I can only add the disappearance of a headache I had for more than a year, and the end of the cramped legs. May be it does not work for everyone, and may be some people are allergic to it, but for me, it worked!
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Another excellent article. Thank you.
Thank you again for the article, the cogent arguments are wonderful. I have two people already in mind who will receive this information, to help them.
I was happy to see this article today, since my tinnitus started just 3 days ago! I use DMSO for other things, so I immediately checked with A Midwestern Doctor to see what was there about DMSO for tinnitus, then started using it in the one ear that has it. It has helped immensely already. There is just a minor buzzing now that is very tolerable, after just 3 days of use. Of course, I hope it goes away totally, but if not, I think I could live with it.
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are you applying inside the ear canal
Yes, I am-only about 3 or 4 drops. Then I put in a small bit of cotton to keep it in the ear.
What brand and what dilution are you using. I'm never quite sure which brand is best to buy so I never buy any.
I buy this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CV26NVGT?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1
It's DMSO 16 oz. Pure 99.995% Liquid | USP Grade Dimethyl Sulfoxide | Non-diluted | Low Odor | BPA Free
It comes in a plastic bottle, but I pour it into a glass bottle when it arrives. It's $19.99 for Prime Day, but normally $21.99. Almost forgot to mention that I dilute it 50/50 with purified water. Hope you try it!
I too suffer. My tinnitus also beats with my pulse, so you have described what is possibly my issue. I suppose I might try magnesium, and also things that would 'clean out' my vessels, such as apple cider vinegar ingestion. I am a brass player (trombone) and had to quit a jazzband when my post rehearsal tinnitus became too prevalent, (I was seated in front of the trumpets). I do wonder how brass playing may cause some problems, as the entire head is filled with sound when you play. I suppose there may be some studies on that to find. But I do have to say, the tinnitus became a constant issue after I had a smutmeter installed on my house in 2019. I have since moved and had relief when I can be out of wifi for sustained periods, and as we all know, that is infrequent these days for most populated areas.
Please. Let's not go the way of reddit and twit