To be honest about it, no
state-of-the art medical treatment
has yet been revealed to treat tinnitus
(as far as the conventional medical practices are
concerned) although millions of Americans keep suffering
from the agonies of hearing mysterious phantom sounds in
their ears day after day, month after month and year
after year with no respite whatsoever in sight. The
resonance range from continuous soft ringing in the ear
to ghoulish hissing or whooshing that turns a person
crazy if not roving mad. The reasons for this medical
apathy towards providing a proper treatment regime for
this awful predicament may sound awry but at the same
time, it is true. It appears that neither the medical
fraternity nor the pharmaceutical giants that are ever
busy in turning out medications that bring colossal
profit to their corporate bodies are much perturbed with
the agonies of tinnitus since it is not
life-threatening. In other words, the state of
conventional medical treatment for tinnitus
looks
awfully poor.
However, there is some medication
that is currently available as OTC formulations in
assorted names, cartons and hermetically sealed bottles.
But these are nothing but anti-allergens or
anti-depressants that are capable of creating side-effects
that often become more hazardous
than the tinnitus itself. Because of this, they should
better be avoided to retrieve whatever is left of that
precious possession called the mental peace.
Drugs
that Help Tinnitus
When the distressing sound effects
of tinnitus go beyond the limit of tolerance, some go
for short-term remedies in the form of infusion
treatments in which, a mild form of anesthetic
formulation is introduced into the body of the sufferer
in the form of an IV injection. Popularly called
Lidocaine Infusion Therapy, it provides relief that
lasts only from a couple of minutes to a couple of hours
(maximum) depending on the patient’s constitution.
However, even this expensive very short-lived respite
from tinnitus does not extend its helping hand to all.
Patients who suffer from external causes like tumors
in
the middle year are however beyond the purview of
Lidocaine infusion. Also disqualified are patients whose
family background (because of some disease that runs in
the family) does not permit Lidocaine infusion. Then
there are people who have had 2nd or 3rd degree heart
blocks and they are not provided with pacemaker or those
people who had suffered from acute sino-arterial block
and have no pacemaker installed in their
bodies.
Medical treatment for tinnitus may
also include osteopathic adjustments and chiropractic
manipulations where the spine is realigned through a
form of deep muscle, deep tissue massaging. Since a
wrongly aligned spine or spinal muscles can rarely but
evenly give rise to tinnitus, a correctly aligned spinal
muscle often sets things right.
Acupuncture, though not falling
strictly under medical treatment of tinnitus in
countries other than in the East, nevertheless proves to
be an effective treatment for tinnitus patients. In
China
, it has
been reported that with a few needles planted on
different parts of the body, can give positive results.
The surgeons do open-heart surgery while the patient
talks to the doctor about his troubles. No wonder, if
such techniques are used in the West, tinnitus problems
may get solved.
Tinnitus Treatment That Really
Works
However, as things stand today, a
holistic way
of treatment is the only answer for a
permanent cure of tinnitus. Of course it involves
leading an austere lifestyle that includes practicing
yoga and vedic exercises, eliminating meat and
meat-based products from daily diet, total abstinence
from alcohol or alcohol based beverages, giving up
tobacco in all forms and sustaining mostly on fruits,
vegetables and organic food products. When the body is
ultimately tuned in this way, it will be able to tackle
all the three causative factors of tinnitus that are
described below
- Sinus
congestion factor
- Stress
and anxiety related factor
- Cochlear
middle ear nerve related
factor
In fact, most holistic tinnitus
treatment followers believe that as the body
successfully settles the first two primary factors, the
third factor, namely the one that concerns the nerve
endings would automatically regain their original shape
and form and stop sending incoherent signals to the
brain. And the brain cells in turn will stop
transmitting mysterious sound effects to the ear
drums.
The
holistic approach treats the body as a whole and first
identifies all the root causes of tinnitus and also its
triggers and once this is done, the correct treatment to
cure these root causes are recommended. On the other
hand, conventional remedies just treat the symptoms of
the condition, and since the root causes remain
unattended to, the tinnitus often comes back. This is
indeed the much better approach for a permanent remedy.
