Because there is no cure .... Many meds have shown to work just fine but they dont mind that they dont want to do research because it is expensive .

Xanax 76 % , gabapentin + klonopin , sulpiride56% , sulpiride+ melatonin 81%,melatonin 40% , sulpiride+ hydroxyzine 81% and prami and tileptal..

I guess you can try one of those and see if ti works for you. Melatonin and xanax in low doses comes with lees side effects and they are preaty much safe in the long term.

There is no cure for many things including cancers but they are forever trying to find cures. Not so with tinnitus

Yeah but with cancer today you maybe have 50-60% chances to survive and trust me it is hard to watch somone fighting cancer... With xanax you have 76% chances to improve your tinnitus, to some degree but it is probably around 50% chanses to improve tinnitus... and you have another options too ... I guess xanax is the first line, and second line is gabapanetin + klonopin, if that that does not work for you i guess next move is melatonin or melatonin+ sulpiride( 50-200 mg very safe ) . So in the end you have perhaps 90-95% chances to improve your tinnitus .... I wish that every rich man has tinnitus but they dont , and they wont put their money on research...

I could hardly compare cancer with tinnitus. To see a loved one die from cancer eating their liver is far more worth looking for a cure than researching a noise that has umpteen possible known causes. This does not downplay the importance of how anyone feels about their tinnitus or mean that's it not worthy of research, and I do believe there is research going on, but to compare it to cancer I cant do.

Well i do know how much it hurts when you have this disease( tinnitus) ... I wont surender and wont give up ever... but I dont believe there would be cure any time soon... what they could do is take meds we have now and try it for tinnitus... I do believe that at least one of our meds that cure bipolar or depression or something elso might work alos for tinnitus .... Then need to study trileptal or prami better ... Meck will aply for suvorexant( novel sleeping drug) this year so at least we can have a good night sleep which is very important for tinnitus.... There is also tasimelton ( antother sleeping drug) als0 cooming this year or maybe 2013..

Man I wish I could sleep for 12-14 hours per day because i dont suffer whan I am in bed sleeping.

Here's a better question... why aren't you, me, and everyone reading this doing our own medical research instead of waiting for someone else. How many of us are spending thousands on useless crap like holidays in the sun instead of microscopes, medical books, and lab equipment? Nobody has to validate or OK a study you/we do on ourselves.

We're all sheep taking known vitamins and supplements instead of being leaders and taking risks... the answer is pretty easy actually.. target the nerve the lidocaine injections do with something else that lasts longer and with less side effects.. tada.. tinnitus controlled.

All this sound therapy is good but it's not what society needs, a quick fix.

Let me tell you a story to make you happy, i was seeing a psychiatrist when i first got this, and she told me she had T since she was 13.. well.. next time i saw her, i BLASTED her for being a lazy useless nothing of a "profesional" if she had t, medical training, the ability to perscribe and research but was spending her nights finding new friends on Facebook.

Needless to say, she told me she never wanted to see me again!

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but at least ONE medical professional got a piece of our collective minds.. i truly laced into her verbally without censorship, it was rude but lord knows i had to do it at least once in my life - for the team!!

I couldnt agree more on that ... The thruth is nobody told me that there are meds that can helps us with tinnitus ... I guess we must do research ... They told me to take ginko and B vitamins and they heleped a little but there isnt problem in our ears .. problem is in our brain .... Why dont they just scan it 10000 times and see what part is responsible for tinnitus and cut that off or inject something that will permanently paralyze that part....

Neilstar I dont have knowlegde to find a cure but I work on prevention. I told people all the time about tinnitus and what they can do to avoid it , and if only 1 od them realise that i dont speak like lunatic i would be happy and satisfied...I will start using melatonin soon and maybe sulpiride because it is available to me ... And if I find thet helpfull I will write that down here.

There is research being done but this is a tough nut to crack. Cancer can be touched and seen under a microscope. Tinnitus can't. It's a chemical malfunction in the brain. It's only been in the last year or so that doctors have been able to see tinnitus activity during brain scans.

" I couldnt agree more on that ... The thruth is nobody told me that there are meds that can helps us with tinnitus ... I guess we must do research ..."

You must. Most doctors won't even think about prescribing medication for off label use and they certainly wont mention them.

It is tough nut to crack but countries all around the worls are spending their money on useless weapons and and on luxury hotels ... I do believe that if whole world wants we can find cure in 2 years time. I mean only in China there are 130.000.000 people with tinnitus and only progress being made on this field come from USA and UK... What about other countries...

The only docs really willing to prescribe drugs off label (unless you happen to find a good GP, PA, or APN) are psychiatrists. When I first joined DS many people on here told me this. I went to many docs and finally decided to follow their advice and try a psychiatrist. I take in T studies/reports I find online or even tell him what some people on DS are having success with and he thinks about it, then generally says, "I could see how this might help T," or says, "Let's give it try." Psychiatrists are often give drugs off label, so they are much more willing to try things that might help.

Not only that, they are big on trying to alleviate mental suffering--and we all know T causes that!

The difficulty with finding a cure for T include a lack of funding, there are many causes for T, it isn't life-threatening (and in fact most people with T get along just fine with it), and most of all, it is brain problem--like Parkinsons, epilepsy, Alzheimers--and brain problems are EXTREMELY difficult to fix. It's like saying, "Why can't docs fix damaged nerves?" They can't fix broken nerves and they can't fix broken brains. :-/

However, with more vets coming home with T, funding is increasing, so there is hope that more treatments (not necessarily cures, though) will be found sooner rather than later.

Enis, you make a good point about sleep. I think I would have more good T days if I could could get a good night's sleep! 0_o

I'm no doctor but I did stay at a Holiday Express one time ;) so I think I'm qualified to say that Enis you have a great attitude and I agree with McMurdo, it's a brain thing that's why ENT's have no idea what to do with us. I think, medically speaking, the brain is still very much a new frontier to the medical field. I had one audiologist tell me that tinnitus is like a 1,000 piece puzzle and the medical field only has one piece so far....not encouraging. Also, other diseases, conditions have "movements", if you will, to bring recognition. Tinnitus is sort of a lonely thing to have and you can't see it so nobody can possibly know the despair unless you suffer from in and if you do, Lord knows you can barely say anything to someone who doesn't have it without getting the roll of the eye, "oh brother" look....so how can we ever convey the anquish when even doctors don't think it's a big deal. I'm not comparing it to cancer but ,for me anyway, I cannot even begin to explain the despair this thing has given me.
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I am not mad because they dont have cure... They dont have cure for many things... I am mad because they are doing so little to find a cure... That is a big diference... Even the guys from Microtranponders dont have enaught money to study their devices... I was looking on many sites where they study tinnitus and they all dont have enaught money to provide better research.... I said maybe the cure is simple.... Those guys they dont need so much money.... They need maybe 100.000.000 dolars every year. And that is the cost of 2 figter aircraft or maybe one.. Imagine that