Tinnitus FAQ
www.bixby.org/faq/tinnitus.html
a resource for understanding tinnitus,
not a substitute for a health care provider
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v.2.6-Updated German language Web Page URL. See: What online resources are available?
v.2.5-What online resources are available?
v.2.4-What online resources are available? http://www.teleport.com/~ata The Home Page Site (under construction) for the "American Tinnitus Association".
v.2.4-What organizations can I turn to for more information? A new Tinnitus Organization in Spain: ASOCIACION DE PERSONAS AFECTADAS POR TINITUS(Acúfenos).
General reorganization of t-faq content into a interactive Web site consisting of 14 topics. Each topic is accessible from the Tinnitus FAQ Home Page. There is a quick directory to subtopics within each topic page.
New Topics Added to the Tinnitus FAQ:
Miscellanea categorizes information difficult to classify within the primary topic, i.e., location of the August 30, 1996 Tinnitus FAQ.
Added definitions to list. If there are terms within t-faq that are not understandable, send e-mail identifying the term and its location in t-faq. I will continue to enhance the Glossary with new terms. As more readers upgrade their browsers to HTML3.2 operation (similar to Netscape Navigator 3.0 or Internet Explorer 2.0), I would like to create Javascript pop-up windows within the t-faq text, so readers will have definition access without going to the Glossary page while reading a topic page.
Added definitions to list of drugs available for treating tinnitus.
Addendum to correspondence about increased dosage of SERC for tinnitus treatment.
A recent article in the Sunday Daily Telegraph United Kingdom reported tinnitus as being imaginary. Jonathan Hazell FRCS (Head of the Medical Research Unit, Royal National Institute for Deaf People) responded to the newspaper with words of support for tinnitus sufferers.
One Ringey Dingey
Thanks to everyone for their nice comments about the reorganized Tinnitus FAQ. I'm continuing to edit, research, and incorporate new content to t-faq as time allows. I continue to receive messages from other web sites asking to be included in the t-faq Online Resources page. As I find time to investigate these sites, I will add the information and link code. Please be patient as I continue to search for tinnitus information. In response to the email, I will try to respond with helpful information, but when in doubt, I will suggest posting messages to alt.support.tinnitus.
The award from Citizen 1 HIT was a pleasant surprise and reflects the efforts of the past t-faq Maintainers - Mark Bixby and Lee Leggore. My thanks to them for collating the massive amount of information currently contained in the t-faq Web Site.
Lee
t-faq Maintainer
Lee Easter (rleaster@aol.com)
Tinnitus FAQ: http://www.bixby.org/faq/tinnitus.html
Falmouth, MA
"you have to allow room for serendipity and the unexpected."
- Thomas Zimmerman
t-faq received an award as a top medical resource site from Citizen 1 HIT. Click the award gif and read the email notification message.
The beginning of a major edit of this page is underway. Over the next few months, more tinnitus and related symptoms and conditions links will be investigated for possible inclusion or revision. Please let me know you feelings about the enhanced content for each link.
As time allows, the Glossary will be expanded to become a working, hyperlinked Glossary/Index. The first linked additions are to the Treatment Possibilities page.
Read the email notification message from Citizen 1 HIT designating the t-faq web site as a top site for medical professionals. For those who want to know more about Citizen 1 HIT, click the gif and visit their page.
t-faq received an award from American Audiology Academy at audiologyinfo.com. Click the award gif and read the information about the award.
With no urging, t-faq has dedicated the Tinnitus FAQ to the memory of Susan Moreland, one of the guiding lights for the newsgroup - alt.support.tinnitus.
Minor updates were made to the following t-faq topics, Treatment and Research Centers, Offline Resources, Online Resources, Miscellanea, Discovering and Understanding Tinnitus, and Diagnosis of Tinnitus.
The majority of the updates for this period and time to come will be concentrated to this t-faq topic. By the posting of the next update, I hope to have all the primary items in t-faq indexed on this page and then will start cross-referencing secondary listings of the items in the index.
Other than fine-tuning the layout of t-faq, there hasn't been a great deal of medical activity to report since the last update. I have received a number of email messages during the past two years and have collected them until I could find time to accomplish an update. Please continue to be patient with the addition of new information and the progress for making changes to t-faq. As the server is in a separate location, revisions are made in clusters and the revised files are emailed to the sysop for updating the server. Hopefully, there will be some discoveries in the future that will warrant more changes to t-faq.
The update is complete and contains new information and revisions to existing information. The changes are too numberous to list in the What's New topic, but most of the changes have occurred in the following topics: Treatment and Research Centers, Offline Resources, Online Resources, and Treatment Possibilities.
One item of particular note is a recent study performed by Johns Hopkins and published in their Medical Letter/Health After 50. Researchers have determined that the ringing in the ear actually originates in the brain, and that the brain "rewires itself and may cause electrical signals that register as ringing" when the ear is damaged - by loud noises or medications. The researchers expect that this breakthrough will lead to possible new treatments.
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