35 Ways To Help Tinnitus

A bunch of ways to mitigate the detrimental effects of tinnitus on one's life.

Updated tip list can be found here:
https://schizoprevent.blogspot.com/2021/03/dealing-with-tinnitus.html
(Complete (below notes are missing some details due to YouTube word count limit))

0:00 intro
2:48 Ways of helping an established case of tinnitus
17:40 Preventing damage after a loud noise event
22:08 Ear health tips
23:41 What not to do
25:06 Outro

Tapping back of head
https://youtu.be/cQ9L3Lz87ak
https://youtu.be/GsCTBeGrT8k (Austin Goh)
Pulling ear (eustachian tubes)
https://youtu.be/kR3TWHyvEBk
White noise
Noise
Remeron Mirtazapine (sleep anti depresent one study did nortriptyline (pamelor), remeron might be better (32% reduction in loudness) (do not use this)

Tone that cancels tone in my brain (noise cancelling
Melatonin
Hearing aide that masks the tinnitus and habituates your mind (30% improvement to Tinnitus Severity Index Score (large variations), 20% placebo) (see drive)
Activated b1 (eustachian tubes) tinnitustalk
Botox tmj
Physio tmj exercise youtube
Neck exercises
Maritime pine park extract helps tinnitus caused by low blood flow in inner ear
L thianine. Gaba neurotransmitter sleep help anti axiety depression.
Supplementing GABA may help tinnitus (studies show tinnitus sufferers have low GABA) (likely works similar to a benzo (clonazepam best benzo for tinnitus (not a recommendation))) (Using clonazepam there was a 14% tinnitus handicap score reduction, loudness went from 5 to 1 (in this study gingko biloba had a larger reduction in tinnitus handicap score than clonazepam(1))) (50-80% improvement in another study with clonazepam(2)) (32% saw some degree of improvement in another study (clonazepam) (more saw improvement with Xanax)(3))
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10162-006-0067-2
(1)https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/83/8/821.short
(2)https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-laryngology-and-otology/article/abs/benzodiazepines-in-the-treatment-of-tinnitus/713A5980C7658288F0E26EE8A91C5D54
(3)https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136369/#!po=40.8497 (list of pharma treatments)
Keto diet
Taurine helps rats with tinnitus. Helps restore calcium ion flow in ear. Works in 12% of people lifeextension
https://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2013/6/the-forgotten-longevity-benefits-of-taurine
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20868734/
Sleeping pills
Lenire Electric stimulation to tongue with music (14 point reduction 30% more reduction in more severe cases, average reduction was 30%, didn't help a small minority) or tapping back of head (less effective
https://www.lenire.com/
Metro link for stopping neuroinflammation pill (more research needed) PLOS Biology, suggests it is caused by a molecule called TNF-A (tumour necrosis factor alpha) that disrupts communication between neurons. 3,6′-dithiothalidomide (dTT) helpful pill after exposure
https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=plos+biology+tnf-a+tinnitus&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3DqOt10pIJyPEJ
Humira reduces TNF-A, rituximab also reduces TNF-A (worth looking into)
(See drive humira)
Biofeedback
Sulpiride and melatonin
Based on the subjective grading, tinnitus perception diminished by 56% in patients treated with sulpiride, by 40% in patients treated with melatonin, by 81% in patients treated with sulpiride plus melatonin (don't use sulpiride)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17942035/
Xanax (NO) Benzodiazepines are bad not as effective
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136369/#!po=40.8497

More supplements
Zinc promising (42% reduction in subjective tinnitus severity, loudness of tinnitus didn't change) they used 50mg zinc for 2 months, this is likely to much zinc, could try 25mg for 6 to 8 weeks.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12544035/
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1RwfFGQmFhE06WZzNxDv8YyBWjW5ZlP1i
Reducing zinc right after a loud noise event however reduces hearing damage in mice (zinc chelation could potentially help (after noise exposure))
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2310561121 (needs more research)
Coenzyme Q10 nope
Magnesium prevents hearing damage after noise 60% effective or more (80% for DPOAE) magnesium taken post noise exposure for 10 days 122mg in study once a day. Not free radical pathway but mitochondria effect
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15533151/
See Google drive
Fish oil reduces age related hearing loss 1.2 decibel over 3 years difference, no difference high frequency
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20424800/
B12 almost 50% reduction in damage after noise exposure if it's in your system
See Google drive link