Causes of Subjective Tinnitus...

http://www.jfponline.com/pages.asp?aid=1729&UID=

Ototoxicity

– Medications: aminoglycoside antibiotics (such as gentamicin); valproate; quinine; cisplatin; loop diuretics (such as furosemide)

– Heavy metals such as lead

 

 

 

I have been reading up alot on this subject.. And as I have read web sites that say lead can cause tinnitus.. I believe from information I have read that mercury that people are exposed to alot from many sources can cause and does cause hearing abnormalitys as will as hearing loss..

 

It's just a fact.. This information has made me take stock of what I eat that may contain mercury and I no longer have glass themometeres in my home..

 

I've been throu hyperacusis hell. And I don't need anything in my life that can effect my ears beyond what I can control...

 

And I believe alot of things that can cause ear damage is mankind made.. Like loud machine noise and toxins and chemicals and even flu's that are spread thru unsanatary conditions...

 

It's all against the natural order of things I believe so my moto is..

 

Buyer beware. Get informed and decide what the best thing to do for you and your health is in the process of trying to get better..

 

Just do the best you can... Get informed and take back some control of your life..  

 

Medically Induced Tinnitus And Heavy Metal Posioning Tinnitus....

Also Types of tinnitus noises heard and caused by chart.....

http://www.jeffreywarber.com/hc%20pages/tinnitus.html

 http://www.hearnet.com/features/articles/artist_article_tinnitus.shtml

Practically any ear disorder can cause tinnitus including: obstruction of the exterior ear canal; infection of the interior ear, internal ear, tube, the covering of the brain, the mastoid bone; toxcicity from heavy metals, alcohol, carbon monoxide, etc; anemia; hypothyroidism; cardiovascular disease; high blood pressure; hypoglycernia; aspirin; diuretics; antibiotics; hereditary nerve or bone formation; trauma to the head; noise-induced hearing loss; eustachian tube obstruction; neck problems; cranial bone misalignments; Menieres disease; Temporalmandibular Joint dysfunction; calcium deposits, etc

http://www.hearinglosshelp.com/OtotoxicityPartII.htm

Ototoxicity-The Hidden Menace.. Ototoxic Drugs Exposed.. Chemical's and Heavy Metals...

From that site :

I suggest as a first step-think "drugs."

When patients ask me what they can do about their hyperacusis, among the first questions I ask is, "What happened in your life just before the hyperacusis began? Did you start taking new medications or was there a change in the dose of existing medications...

http://www.emoryhealthcare.org/healthgate/11504.html

Moms Against Mercury... Also In Flu Shots....

http://www.momsagainstmercury.org/

http://www.autismwebsite.com/ari/vaccine/mercurylong.htm

sensory dysfunction. Mercury (Hg) is a toxic metal that can exist as a pure element or in a variety of inorganic and organic forms and can cause immune, sensory, neurological, motor, and behavioral dysfunctions similar to traits defining or associated with autism

Auditory impairment is also common. Two separate studies, for example, both found that 24% of autistic subjects have a hearing deficit (Gillberg & Coleman, 1992). More recently Rosenhall et al (1999) have diagnosed hearing loss ranging from mild to profound, as well as hyperacusis, otitis media, and conductive hearing loss, in a minority of ASD subjects, and these traits were independent of IQ status. Among the earliest signs of autism noted by mothers were strange reactions to sound and abnormal babble (Gillberg & Coleman, 1992), and many ASD children are tested for deafness before receiving a formal autism diagnosis (Vostanis et al, 1998). "Delayed or prompted response to name" differentiates 9-12 months old toddlers, later diagnosed with autism, from mentally retarded and typical controls (Baranek, 1999). In fact, "bizarre responses" to auditory stimuli are nearly universal in autism and may present as "either a lack of responsiveness or an exaggerated reaction to auditory stimuli" (Roux et al, 1998), possibly due to sound sensitivity (Grandin, 1996). Kanner noted an aversion to certain types of sounds, such as vacuum cleaners (Kanner, 1943). Severe deficits in language comprehension are often present (Filipek et al, 1999). Difficulties in picking out conversational speech from background noise are commonly reported by high functioning ASD individuals (Grandin, 1995; MAAP, 1997-1998).

In regard to language and auditory phenomena..........

. Sensory Perception

Sensory impairment is considered by many researchers to be a defining characteristic of autism (Gillberg and Coleman, 1992; Williams, 1996). Baranek (1999) detected sensory-motor problems - touch aversion, poor non-social visual attention, excessive mouthing of objects, and delayed response to name - in 9-12 month old infants later diagnosed with autism, and suggests that these impairments both underlie later social deficits and serve to differentiate ASD from mental retardation and typical controls.

Besides sensitivity to sound, as previously noted, ASD often involves insensitivity to pain, even to a burning stove (Gillberg & Coleman, 1992), while on the other hand there may be an overreaction to stimuli, so that even light to moderate touches are painful. Pinprick tests are usually normal. Children with autism have been described as "stiff to hold," and one of the earliest signs reported by mothers is an aversion to being touched (Gillberg & Coleman, 1992). Abnormal sensation in the extremities and mouth are common. Toe-walking is frequently seen. Oral sensitivity often results in feeding difficulties (Gillberg & Coleman, 1992, p.31). Autistic children frequently have vestibular impairments and difficulty orienting themselves in space (Grandin, 1996; Ornitz, 1987

As in ASD, sensory issues are reported in nearly all cases of mercury toxicity, and serve to demonstrate the similarities between the two conditions....

Iraqi babies exposed to mercury prenatally showed excessive crying, irritability, and exaggerated reaction to stimulation such as sudden noise or when touched (Amin-Zaki et al, 1974 and 1979).

Like ASD, movement disorders have been a feature of virtually all descriptions of mercury poisoning in humans

Glutamate Toxicity and neuronal cells...

in neurons, cells & liver to detoxify heavy metals. Low levels ... well as hyperacusis, otitis media, and conductive hearing loss, in a ... exposed to thimerosal in ear drops, 

http://www.the7thfire.com/PycResGlutamateTox.htm

The auditory system is damaged by mercury poisoning in Minamata disease.

The auditory system may have special importance for the brain as a whole. Fisch (1970) pointed out that the auditory system is always active, even during sleep [118] -- this is why we use alarm clocks to wake up!

The auditory system evolved as an alerting mechanism for visual attention, and there is evidence that the inferior (auditory) and superior (visual) colliculi in the midbrain tectum might have special importance for general awareness and consciousness [119, 120].   

Hyperacusis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28element%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory

http://www.ummah.net.pk/dajjal/meniere.html

Symptoms

5 symptoms qualify Meniere :
 

Symptom	Brief Explanation
Vertigo	Loss of balance. In Meniere often fluctuating between attacks. If it is other vestibular problems often more permanent in its nature.
Bad Hearing	Sometimes fluctuating. In the long run worse after each attack
Tinnitus	Ringing, hissing or whooshing sound in the ear(s). Comes normally together with bad hearing. If the hearing gets better the tinnitus normally gets lower.
Ear Fullness or Pressure	The ear feels "full", sometimes with pain.
Frequent attacks	More than one single attack that causes the person to loose balance for minutes or hours. Often combined with vomiting. An Attack without warning that causes a person to be virtually falling to the floor is called drop-attack. Most people feel warnings in the form of fullness or worse hearing etc. before attacks.

 

Other common symptoms are Distorted hearing, Dizziness, Nausea, Vomiting (sometimes "both ends"), Hard to Focus the eyes on one place only, Hard to concentrate, Weak memory, Nervous, Moody, Tired, Headaches. Some even get Oversensitive for low noise. Some even to the extent that they cannot stand normal everyday noises like running water, heavy rain or many people talking at the same time etc., (=Hyperacusis or recruitment). It is as if everything around you has loudspeakers with amplifiers turned to high or the highest and with a lot of distortion.

Causes..

There is seldom no definite cause of Meniere or Meniere-like symptoms. It can be many things like: Stress, High blood pressure, Cholesterol, Bad diet, Too much Coffee, Bad blood supply to the organs in the ear, Too much to drink, Salt, Sugar, Lack of sleep, Smoking, Alcohol, Virus (perhaps Herpes), Obesity, Noise, Hereditary, Tumor, Previous accident with a blow to the head, Auto immune complications, Amalgam tooth - fillings, hypothyroidism, Lead-poisoning, Candida Albicans, (=Yeast infection), Vaccinations etc.

The Gerson Institue... The Gerson Therapy.. Dr Gerson....

http://www.gerson.org/g_therapy/default.asp

http://www.ummah.net.pk/dajjal/litt.html#MBI

List of Authors and books..

Lists Of Literature..

I've read about Selenium being real good as a binder. I need to read up more on this.. I've bought selenium for myself.. But I have to read up more on the subject before I take it as too much selenium may not be good either.. Need to study more on the subject first...

From that site...

Tandvårdsskadeförbundet, TF,

SWEDEN

Symptoms, Development of the disease, diagnosis and Test methods, Free radicals, metals and the Immune System, Selenium and vitamin treatment, Diet and life-style, chelators, safety precautions for removal of Amalgam, Other toxic dental materials, Priority order for Amalgam removal, General guidelines on replacement material, Composite materials, ceramics, porcelain and plastic inlays, Gold restorations, Materials for crowns and bridges, root canal treatments, dentures, tooth extraction, complications, Realistic expectations of treatment, pregnancy, dental personnel.

Chronic Fatigue Author Annika Jeppsson-Mc Clintock

Suddenly ill, Head in Plaster-cast, About Amalgam, metal, oral galvanism, symptoms, electricity sensitivity, diagnosis, removing dangerous?, root-fillings dangerous?, cost, percentage sick of amalgam, stairway to health, Important to know before treatment, literature references

How To Live Longer And Feel Better.. Author.. Linus Pauling...

Vitamin C is very important for among very many things: Hepatitis, Hemorrhages, High cholesterol, Blood vessels, Cerebrovascular diseases, Vascular diseases, Headache, Mental retardation, Strokes, Cancer pain relief, Cancer, Common cold, Diabetes, Cataracts, Glaucoma, Eyesight, Ear infections, Heart Attacks, Allergies, Immunity System, Infections and inflammations, Asthma, Autism, Alertness, Schizophrenia (with B3), Senility, Stress, Aches and pains, Muscles, Polio, Spasms, ALS, Lou Gehrigs disease, Pain tolerance, AIDS, Diphtheria, Dysentery, Gout, Hernias, Herpes, Strengthen connective tissue, Thyroid function, Arthritic pains, Teeth and bones, Skin, Wound healing, Ulcer, Gum diseases, Teeth, Toothache etc. etc. Just to name a few. God has created at least one cure for every disease and Vitamin C can be an important one of them. God knows best.

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This is interesting about the ringing in the ears part.. I don't drink water out of my faucets only bottled water but I've been reading that distilled is better.. Maybe I should change to distilled.. And I don't buy flouride toothpaste anymore.. I like the salt and soda powdered T.P... And I've got flouride free baby toothpaste for my kids..

My tinnitus has gone way down from my worst and I had bad tinnitus... It could be allso from certain changes in lifestyle.. I figure.. Why not read up and see what certain changes may do in the long run with my tinnitus , hyperacusis.. What may help with getting better..

You don't know till you try .... I think diet was big factor in my heartbeat in the ear tinnitus going away..

But it's so hard to prove what made it go away but I feel that it was certain changes in diet and things I tried...

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Author .... Paul And Patrica Bragg.....  

Not really about a conspiracy, but a book about how important it is that water is really really clean. The body cannot use the inorganic minerals that are in water. It can only use organic minerals that cannot be found in water. If we drink distilled water we can avoid clogged blood vessels and therefore very many diseases. Middle-aged people do not have to have blood pressure over what a 20 year old person has. If we drink distilled water we can vacuum clean our blood vessels from all the deposits of inorganic minerals from water. We can if we drink distilled water look forward to a very big chance of a longer life. (God willing). The book describes how inorganic minerals in ordinary tap water can make blood vessels harden in many places of the body including the brain. We can avoid gout, kidney stones, arthritis of the joints, ringing ears, bad eyesight and much more if we drink perfectly clean water.

The book also warns about Fluoride, which is one of the deadliest poisons ever made by so called humans.

Enviromental Impact On Hearing.. Is Anyone Listening ?

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1994/102-11/focus2.html

Mercury . Mercury intoxication causes hearing loss in humans and animals. In 1953, a severe neurological disorder was recognized among persons living in the vicinity of Minimata, Japan, where mercury-containing effluent flowing from a chemical manufacturing plant into the local bay contaminated shellfish. Deterioration in hearing and deafness were reported among other neurological symptoms. Findings consistent with Minimata disease have been reported in other instances of accidental mercury intoxication in Japan and Iraq. Early stages of poisoning may result in cochlear lesions, whereas hearing loss in the late stages of intoxication may result from neurological damage

Raelynn Janssen -Neuro-transmitters like glutamate may figure in hearing loss. 

Lawrence Fechter, director of the toxicology department of Oklahoma University's College of Pharmacy and School of Medicine, says that studies on glutamate excitotoxicity have implications beyond auditory dysfunction. "I'm more and more convinced that what we're doing in the ear is very much like what is occurring in other parts of the nervous system. If you get excessive release of glutamate from presynaptic nerve endings, this can greatly elevate the level of calcium in the cells postsynaptic to it and produce a cascade of injurious effects. This 'extra-overstimulation,' if you will, or excitotoxic action, has been identified as one of the themes in neurotoxicity. People are talking about it in respect to learning, memory, Alzheimer's disease, and to other neurotoxic diseases."

Recently, Janssen demonstrated the blocking of glutamate cochlear neurotoxicity in rats through the use of glutamate receptor antagonists kynurenic acid and MK-801. Fechter is now also experimenting with MK-801. He says trimethyltin, an ototoxic and neurotoxic heavy metal, seems to work through a glutamatergic mechanism. "We've demonstrated we can protect against trimethyltin ototoxicity with MK-801," says Fechter. "We're now trying to develop candidate drugs which may be effective in preventing or reversing ototoxicity. People have been working in piecemeal fashion, identifying one chemical agent after another which is ototoxic. What's just beginning to emerge is some sense of fundamental mechanisms contributing to hearing loss which would allow us to more effectively predict new ototoxic agents and may also give us the wherewithal to protect the inner ear from injury."

Ototoxic Drugs -Carbon Disulfide-Toluene-Noise And Solvents- Arsenic-Trimethltin ect...

 

Picture Photo of... Natures hearing plugs......

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This site is interesting..

http://www.mercksource.com/

 

They have an illustrated medical dictionary and virtual body tour... Plus.. Arsenic.. Peripheral Neuropathy .......

 

---------------------------------------------------------------Here is a good site... http://www.zip.com.au/~rgammal/Are_Dentist_Really_Healthy.html 

 

Selenium... Thats what I've been reading up on.......

 

Some of the basic supplements you should consider adding to your daily routine are;

Vitamin C 1.5g/day

Multivitamin B complex

Selenium 200-400mcg/day

Chlorella tablets or pills

LM1 or Toxicol tablets

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Foods Rich In Glutamate And Aspartate listed on this site...

 

http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/showthread.php?t=10849

 

 

Effects of lead on the auditory system....

 

Lead... http://www.epa.gov/iaq/lead.html

 

http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6587299

 

Effects Of Lead Resources Listings......

 

 poisoning is extremely high, symptoms of lead poisoning are often ... to the auditory system, and whether lead causes hearing loss or ... lead exposure. Lead Posioning -Lead Poisoning News

 

http://www.officehomebusiness.com/home/Effects-Of-Lead.html

 

Health impacts of lead poisioning.. Pheripheral nervous system imparment.. Auditory Processing Altered.. Hearing Loss..

 

http://www.lead.org.au/fs/fst7.html

 

http://www.emedicine.com/radio/topic386.htm

 

Heavy metals, such as lead and mercury, cause damage to the nervous system, which manifests differently in children and adults. Other toxins, both endogenous and exogenous, usually affect the nervous system with no age dependence.

 

The toxic affects of heavy metals on the CNS are well known. Several metals have toxic effects on the neurons and neurobehavior. Toxicity can be expressed either as developmental effects or as an increased risk of neurodegenerative diseases in old age. The major metals causing neurobehavioral effects after developmental exposure are lead and methyl mercury.

 

Lead in food and food containers... Exposure To Lead In Home Remedies.....

 

Hearing Problem System... Lead posioning and a complete list of listing symptoms .. ear symptoms...

 

http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/sym/ear_symptoms.htm  

 

Symptom... Sensitive Hearing......

 

http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/sym/sensitive_hearing.htm

 

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20040101/120.html

TABLE 2 Medications and Substances that Can Cause Tinnitus

Analgesics Aspirin Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs Antibiotics Aminoglycosides Chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin) Erythromycin Tetracycline Vancomycin (Vancocin) Chemotherapeutics Bleomycin (Blenoxane) Cisplatin (Platinol) Mechlorethamine (Mustargen) Methotrexate (Rheumatrex) Vincristine (Oncovin) Loop diuretics Bumetanide (Bumex) Ethacrynic acid (Edecrin) Furosemide (Lasix) Others Chloroquine (Aralen) Heavy metals: mercury, lead Heterocyclic antidepressants Quinine -------------------- http://www.healthy-networks.com/youngagain/tinnitus-heavy-metal-poisoning.html   Tinnitus - Medicinal Drugs, Heavy Metal Poisoning Tinnitus is also often caused or triggered by a wide variety of medicinal drugs such as anxiety and depression drugs, anti-malarial medication, blood-pressure controlling medicines, toxins ingested into the body, and heavy metal poisoning. Lipoic acid has also been used for decades to protect the liver and to detoxify the body of heavy metal pollutants, such as excessive iron and copper and toxic metals such as cadmium, lead and mercury.

Auditory Processing Disorder..

http://www.answers.com/topic/auditory-processing-disorder?hl=auditory&hl=processing

Causes...

While there is no one cause, the disorder will occur in various locations along the path followed by acoustic signals as they are received, transition into neural signals and then ultimately pass through neural networks from the ear to the brain for additional analysis (before the ultimate recognition or comprehension and response). In many children, the development of important auditory centers within the brain is linked directly to maturational delays which result in this disorder. In others, variations in brain development can lead to benign differences and create the deficits. For many this is a genetic disorder, which is inherited and runs in families. Sometimes, the disorder may relate to neurological problems caused by tumors, trauma, surgical mishaps, disease, viral infections, oxygen defficiency, lead poisoning, auditory deprivation, or anything along these lines

CDC.....

http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/CaseManagement/caseManage_chap3.htm

By interrupting the process of lead poisoning through early ... postural sway, auditory evoked potentials, nerve conduction ... Lead exposure and hearing effects in children ...

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/interven/messages/9793?xm=1&m=e

Exposure to high levels of lead can cause decreased intelligence,
> impaired
> nervous system development, stunted growth, hearing abnormalities and
> learning disabilities

http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/sareport/Week-of-Mon-20050117/000355.html

auditory distortions' and hyperacusis, which its proponents believe ... shows 'hypersensitive hearing' or has 'uneven hearing', The client ... impairments ultimately will lead to a richer

http://www.thoughtfulhouse.org/0405-conf-emumper.htm

You have heard a lot about glutathione today. Think of glutathione as a working woman who has many responsibilities and multi-tasks. She keeps her family healthy (proper immune function), cleans up after her kids (detoxification) and still makes time to exercise her gluteal muscles (a mnemonic to help you remember GLUTathione).

Folic acid was named for the Latin word for leaf, and looks leafy on a microscopic level. It's excellent for repairing DNA injured by oxidative stress, it helps you hang on to your electrons, and it's used in growth, regeneration, and repair.

Lots of different factors contribute to oxidative stress—radiation, drugs, pollution, poor diet, infection, stress, aging, and injury trauma. This all leads to the loss of glutathione, and cellular aging, disease, and death. Those of us who do this work spend a lot of our day treating oxidative stress.

Flouride Posioning.. Toxcity... Symptoms/ Associations.. Inner ear- hearing loss- autism.........  http://www.bruha.com/pfpc/html/symptoms.html

Heavy Metals.... http://www.mercola.com/2003/dec/27/toxic_metals.htm

http://www.healthy.net/scr/article.asp?ID=1660

This is not a discussion of loud, electronic rock 'n' roll music, but one of impact to all people living in this day and age who are being exposed to heavy metals such as lead, mercury, and cadmium. Though not normally found in or used by the human species, they are becoming more widely present in our environment, leading to serious concerns. There are possibly more problems from these metals, which interfere with normal bodily function, than have been considered in most medical circles. Reviewing all of our vitamins and minerals has shown us that most every substance that is useful can be a toxin or poison, as well. The metals discussed in this section are known primarily-almost exclusively-for their potential toxicity in the body, though commerically they may have great advantages.

Your Complete Guide to Mercury Detoxification... How to safely remove mercury from your teeth and body....

http://www.mercuryfreenow.com/

http://www.mercuryfreenow.com/archives.html

http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic237.htm

Chronic inhalation of inorganic mercury compounds may result in a reduction of sensory and motor nerve function depression visual and/or auditory hallucinations muscular tremors sleep disorders

Mercury on the brain.. Heavy Metal Blues...

Grandjean reports that mercury seems to slow the brain's response to sound. Somewhere along the transmission line—from ear to auditory nerve to brain—the signal is delayed

http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/050444.html

B-12 and Mercury...

http://www.ever.ch/b12hg.htm

WOW!!!  Lots of stuff, I'am putting my energy into knitting now.  (it's quiet)!

I'll send some people this thread url. 

Knit, Purl, Quo!!!

Hi Leah, ((( Smiles )))

So your into knitting. Knitting is a good hobby. I use to knit for the fun of it. I wonder if I still remember how to do it...

But I read what you wrote on another thread..

You Wrote.....

If your able to get the book "detox or die" by Sherry A. Rogers, it's very good and easy to read.  I'll get back to you later about Dr. Kerr's number, but she teaches her patients to take care of themselves, and usually see's those who have complications from environmental causes, she can't do anything for you but she does listen and will write letters to the gov't for whatever you need, but don't phone up and ask if they know about hyperacusis because they won't say they do!, it is related to mercury poisoning, but also over 40 drugs actually cause hyperacusis too and all doctor's do know that!

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And I agree with you totally..

Mercury is terrible for the ears and lead as well. When I read up about lead it just got me all worked up again..

Theses heavy metals are no good to breath or ingest.. You are so totally right on this. And I just read an articule in the paper about lead recently. And it wasen't good at all..

People should know what theses metals can do...... Lots of harm.....

And I really liked what you wrote on your flu shot thread..

That got me thinking as well. I had a flu shot not long before I got hyperacusis..

Just another thing to think about on my long list of things I did for myself on the way to getting this disorder..

http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/danmalcore/vpost?id=478267

PCB's and Hearing.................... Mercury... Chemicals.... Drugs..

http://www.foxriverwatch.com/hearing_pcb_pcbs.html?source=overtu

Colloidal Silver........................... Thats one of things I tryed myself though not from this site...................... Wonder if it leetches metals too..............

http://www.t-gone.com/tinnitus-faq/hyperacusis-05.asp

Also from that site.. About the ear wax removeing .... And hyperacusis

PCB's and Hearing.................... Mercury... Chemicals.... Drugs..

http://www.t-gone.com/tinnitus/hyperacusis-treatment.asp 

Collodal Silver Fabulous Fact...... Yes.. An antibiotic and good for many things.. Thats what my mother told me back then.................

http://www.familyhealthnews.com/49.html

Hi Lynn,

Thanks for bringing this back. I either missed it the first time around or did not have time to read it. I've finally realized it's possible to bookmark these jam packed threads to read at my leisure as I often lose track of them on the board.

Lydia

Hi Lydia, ((( Smiles )))

Your Welcome..... I keep theses threads going for a bookmark for me as well. Then I go back and read them so I don't have to find the site again...

And I hope it will be good reading for others as well. So people that happen to stumble upon this board.. May stay for awhile and educate themselves on their hearing...

Who Knows.. It just may change the world in the long run........ And then.. Technology will get quiet'er and the world will be more peacefull again....

Wouldn't that be music to your ears..............................

You take care Lydia...............

There is allways so much to read on the board...................

At least people who come here....

Won't get bored..................

I found a site of a person diagnoised with mercury and lead poisoning that has tinnitus as a symptom..

And he talked about Setatonin and neurotransmitters..

It's in the Doctors Medical Library....

http://www.medical-library.net/phorum/framer.html?/phorum/read.php

Theres a whole list of archive questions on Dr Kennedys site above..

Wow.. It's still found in some over the counter medication in 2005..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)

And there is also the story of how it use to be in childrens products which remind me of..

The pink disease Babies... Who have sound sensitivity problems in a high percentage of them as adults.. 

http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/danmalcore/vpost?id=545765

I think it was Leah that talked about the thyroid on the board..

I found.. Mercury Effects The Thyroid..

http://www.ithyroid.com/mercury.htm

A BAEP test.... Interesting.. Toxins ... Various Diseases Effecting The Auditory Nerve And Central auditory Pathways....

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=6551

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All participants were given a standardized questionnaire regarding alcohol use, blood tests, and a hearing examination. Recordings and evaluation of brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) were used to measure brain damage in the subjects.

Deviations from standard BAEP latencies and amplitudes generally reflect various diseases affecting the auditory nerve and central auditory pathways. 'BAEPs are diffuse currents circulating in the brain,' explained Smith.

'When an acoustic stimulus on the brain is presented, a particular current response is activated. This response can be detected by electrodes and displayed as a kind of time-dependent voltage. Diseases like cerebellar angle tumours or multiple sclerosis cause defects in the transmission of brain currents, affecting the amplitude and/or latency of the current response, which can in turn be detected by means of BAEP.'

The results indicate that cumulative life-long alcohol consumption affects BAEP latencies, which reflect damage to central auditory pathways, which means hearing loss...

Hi Leah, ((( Smiles ))))

I love it.. Thats so cute..... All the searching and emotions I've felt over the years with my H and T are in thoses faces...  

This just came in.. I have been researching on heavy metals and ear disease and abnormality sound sensitivites hearing loss deafness ect...

Because it is proven that heavy metals can cause theses problems..

Cause problems in the brain.. The Auditory System..

And I hit on this research because of my problems with my ears and what I am faceing at home with my autistic children which opened up a whole new world of research for me.. Just by being here.... And learning from others...

My hyperacusis.. Their autism and hypo and hyper hearing problems they have had.. And then I stumbled on this... And I now what tests have found in their blood as well... The results are in... Now I'm a believer....

Heavy metals may be implicated in autism

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New Speculations on the Causes of Sound Sensitivity..

Another possible cause for Sound Sensitivity is Mercury Poisoning..

Research on Mercury Toxicity has clearly show that it can cause

Sound Sensitivity.......

http://www.autismwebsite.com/saitwebsite/cause2.html 

Sound Sensitivity , Mild to Profound Hearing loss...

I found this on mercola.com

But I've read up on this allready elsewhere...

Glutamate Toxicity and neuronal cells...

in neurons, cells & liver to detoxify heavy metals. Low levels ... well as hyperacusis, otitis media, and conductive hearing loss, in a ... exposed to thimerosal in ear drops, 

http://www.the7thfire.com/PycResGlutamateTox.htm

The auditory system is damaged by mercury poisoning in Minamata disease.

The auditory system may have special importance for the brain as a whole. Fisch (1970) pointed out that the auditory system is always active, even during sleep [118] -- this is why we use alarm clocks to wake up!

The auditory system evolved as an alerting mechanism for visual attention, and there is evidence that the inferior (auditory) and superior (visual) colliculi in the midbrain tectum might have special importance for general awareness and consciousness [119, 120].   

Glutamate Toxicity and neuronal cells...

in neurons, cells & liver to detoxify heavy metals. Low levels ... well as hyperacusis, otitis media, and conductive hearing loss, in a ... exposed to thimerosal in ear drops, 

http://www.the7thfire.com/PycResGlutamateTox.htm

The auditory system is damaged by mercury poisoning in Minamata disease.

The auditory system may have special importance for the brain as a whole. Fisch (1970) pointed out that the auditory system is always active, even during sleep [118] -- this is why we use alarm clocks to wake up!

The auditory system evolved as an alerting mechanism for visual attention, and there is evidence that the inferior (auditory) and superior (visual) colliculi in the midbrain tectum might have special importance for general awareness and consciousness [119, 120].   

Hyperacusis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28element%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory

I've been reading sites.. Researching.. And it's noticable that more people seem to have more illness and rare disorders and sickness's more then ever before..

More virus's to contend with....

The assault on the body, the auditory system, the sensory system, the immune system, the brain and this most surely has to be effecting our health.. Our lives.. Our planet..

It's just totally amazing what one can find out there by reading and researching.... Everything is much louder theses days..

The air and water is more toxic theses days.

It's just so hard to try to stay healthy.. but it does help to keep informed on what one can to to try to protect their ears and ear health.. Their body health because all things do work as a unit in trying to heal..

And the body has a natural inclination for wanting to do that...

I was reading an articule in Time Magazine.. I'm a big reader of Time and they had May 15 2006  called.. New Insights Into The Hidden World Of Autism...

It says like many people with Autism, Hannah is so acutely sensitive to sound that she'll catch every word of a conversation occuring elsewhere in the house, which may account for much of her knowledge.

She is allso hypersensitive to visual output..

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This disorder effects the auditory system in some way, the brain, the sense's..

Also written .. The Curious Incident.. Dr Thomas Insel , Director Of The National Institute Of Mental Health ( NIMH ), which funds most of the autism research , remembers a time when the disorder was rarely diagnoised . "

When my brother trained at Childrens Hospital at Harvard in the 1970's , they admitted a child with autism, and the head of the hospital brought all the residents through to see, " says Insel.

" He said, You've got to see this case, you'll never see it again......

Also at the Center for Children's Enviromental Health and Disease Prevention at the University of California at Davis, toxicologist Issac Pessah is studying hair , blood , urine and tissue samples from 700 familys with autsim.

He's testing for 17 metals, traces of pesticides , opioids and other toxicants.

In March Pessah caused a stir by releasing a study that showed that even even the low levels of mercury used in vacines perserved in thimersol, long  a suspect in autism, can trigger  irregularites in the immune- system cells- at least in the test tube...

Oh and I just want to say I have the results of that study that was published that shows what happens.. Explain's what they saw in detail....

But from the enviromental side..

There probably no one trigger that causeing autism from the enviromental side, " says Pessah, " and there is no one gene thats causeing it "..

Yes.. I've been reading about that enviromental triggers and then I think of that town in Texas what a high rate of autism.. I think it was by a coal power plant.. I can't remember the exact details but I found it highly interesting reading...

And The Body Burden Series.. Is fascanating reading as well...

http://www.bodyburden.org/

All this does have an effect on our auditory health.. Just how much so besides what they do know.. More research needs to be done on this...

For sure....

To add to the thread above...

Whats In You ??

We don't know the effect it has on our health but scientists do have

suspicions...

http://www.insidebayarea.com/bodyburden/ci_2600879 

http://www.chemicalbodyburden.org/

Dr Greene...

Damage the brain or nervous system, that weakens the immune system..

http://www.drgreene.com/21_1439.html

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.. Hyperacusis Is Common in theses Infants......

http://www.kctv.com/global/story.asp?s=1230132

What an intensive site this is on Hyperacusis and Tinnitus..

The even talk about a study of tinnitus and fillings in the teeth..

Just alot of info...

http://www.free-soft.org/mirrors/www.opensource.org/raves/health/tinnitus.FAQ

Auditory Problems...

Hyperacusis or stressed by particular sound people eating,

ect.... Quieter Sounds...

Overall hypersensitivity to sound which is often associated

with a lack of certain minerals and can incresse in stressfull

situations...

Inability to habituate ( Cut Out ) .... Also Loudness Discomfort. 

http://www.autismtoday.com/articles/Sensory_Disorder.htm

The Effects Of Heavy Metal Toxicity..

Some of your symptoms may be from Toxic Levels Of Heavy Metals. 

http://www.incrediblehorizons.com/toxicity%20&%20Autistic-symtoms.chelating.htm 

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Hi Lynn,

Don't you mean "heavy metal" and ear disease?

Ok sorry I couldn't resist that one, although heavy metals aren't good for us either. 

Bonnie

Hi Bonnie, ((( Smiles )))

How are you doing ? At least your ears are doing better.. Sorry to hear about the other things you are going thru..

It could be both.. But I choose heavy metals because heavy metal could also be what a rock band can play.. Heavy metal ... I know it's slang but it has a double meaning..

Heavy metal isn't good for our ears either.. I'm not into heavy metal rock..

It's probably better for my ears that I'm not...

You Take Care Bonnie

Health Information Resources... Illness

Tinnitus .. Hyperacusis.. Bell Palsy...

Lead Poisoning links..

Mercury Posioning Links....

Links from A to Z.....

http://hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/ill.html

Adrenal Insufficiency And Associated Disorders...

Hyperacusis.......

http://www.endocrinology.med.ucla.edu/adrenal_axis.htm

Magnesium Glutathione

Magnesium protects cells from aluminum, mercury, lead, cadmium, beryllium and nickel, which explains why re-mineralization is so essential for heavy metal detoxification and chelation.  Magnesium protects the brain from toxic effects of chemicals thus it is highly likely that low total body magnesium contributes to heavy metal toxicity in children and is a strong participant in the etiology of learning disorders.                                                     

http://www.globallight.biz/Magnesium%20Glutathione.htm

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As heavy metals is implicated in different ear conditions as in all I have read about it.. 

It's best to try to avoid heavy metals with any ear condition just to be safe in not makeing things worse.. Or probably helping in makeing things better...

I was one that was talkeing magnesium faithfully in my hyperacusis and tinnitus condition with sounds therapy because of what I read about magnesium and noise..

But with all I have researched on this subject.. I think it's a good idea to make sure one gets enough magnesium for this concern as well.

There are too many unknowns about theses types of condition besides what we do know.. And it pays to help oneself in whatever way one can.   

So I think for me.. Magnesium was very helpfull in the long term of things.

And it is good for alot more then I thought it was for.. Back then...

Research goes on.. Someday we will know more about what can harm the ears and nerve's  and nervous system..

Besides what we do know and to what extent..

Untill then.. I allways keep an open mind and my ears peeled to whats going on...

Things change all the time with new ideas of research....

I was reading.... Dr Jonathans Hazells articule... At tinnitus.org

http://www.tinnitus.org/home/frame/tin2.htm

And it was interesting as I read that nothing is heard untill sound patterens generated in the cochela , reach the cortex of the brain....

And then I was thinking what Dr Vernon said to me long time ago about the efferent nerve and how I based my understanding of my hyperacusis or hyperacusis in general in that definition..  

And applied what he instructed me to do based on that theory. He sounded So sure of himself back then.. And it made sense to me back then and still does now...

But also.. I was reading on the Tinnitus.org site in Dr Hazells articule about the Neuronal Networks...

He wrote.. Between ear and brain there are 2M Nerve Cells forming a Neuronal Network capabile of sophisticated pattern, enhancement and suppression of auditory signals....

The Neuronal network..

And it's true that heavy metals effect neurons in the brain... In the body... 

I've been reading up on all of that and how heavy metals can cause tinnitus, abnormalitys sound sensitivites, hearing loss, deafness ect....

It's just so interesting what they allready know about this subject out there.. By what has happened to people exposed to theses risks.. And it just makes you wonder in some cases and contributing facors..

How can one not ??????

And then I read about the hearing sensitivitys and problems in the pink disease babys and it just follows a trait of what can happen...

The risks.. And how to avoid thoses risks.. The exposures and what minerals supplements can help avoid thoses possiblitys...

And help one remove as much toxicity as possible.. Just for good health reasons in general.. But more then that..

For what theses heavy metals can do ... And there is so many unknown factors besides what we do know from the records on this subject...

I think the research still goes on and from what I've read in the newspapers..

I've thrown out my tuna long ago.. Its sad.. Really it is.. Tuna was suppose to be good for you too.. Like lots of other fish on the food chain...

But.. I take warnings seriously now.. It's for a good reason...   

It's just interesting stuff.. Food for thought.... 

Adding to what I wrote about  above....

How Mercury Causes Brain Neuro Degeneration..

A streaming video from the University Of Calagary...

About the deleterious effects of Mercury in dental fillings..

Researcher Presents evidence of Mercurys effect on Brain Neurons..

Mercury Damages Nerve Cells...

http://www.altcorp.com/dentalinformation/hgnerves.htm 

Just food for thought.....................

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But also.. I was reading on the tinnitus.org site in Dr Hazells articule about the Neuronal Networks...

He wrote.. Between ear and brain there are 2M Nerve Cells forming a Neuronal Network capabile of sophisticated pattern, enhancement and suppression of auditory signals....

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Also... As I wrote about... what I've read and posted above...

Video Of How Mercury Causes Brain Neuro- Degeneration...

Mercury is a known Neuro -Toxin which can cross the blood brain barrier and concentrate in the brain...

This site allso has things that can be done for it....

Dr Block.. The Block Center....

http://www.blockcenter.com/ADD_ADHD/autism.asp  

How Mercury Effects the Healthy Brain Cells......

How it might be effecting the nervous system....

How is a snail like a typewritter..

Dr Syed.. Dept of Cell Biology & Anatomy Dept of Physiology and

Biophysics......

http://www.ahfmr.ab.ca/publications/newsletter/summer01/Sum2001/inside/mercury.feat.htm

International Academy Of Oral Medicine and Toxicology.....

Written Transcript...

http://www.vaccinetruth.org/written_transcript.htm 

The Dangers Of Heavy Metals... Listing's of all of them..... 

http://www.heart-disease-bypass-surgery.com/data/articles/141.htm

The Effects Of Chemicals On Hearing....

Hearing loss from heavy metals Toxcitiy...

Inner ear damage and hearing loss...

http://members.aol.com/tiermensch/pollutionhearing.html

Mercury Deposition and it's relationship to Inner Ear Function... Pub Med...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1280899&dopt=Abstract

Fetal Methyl Mercury Effects...... Hearing Loss..

MedLine Plus.. Medical Encyclopedia......

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/print/ency/article/003044.htm

Oh... I can't get to read this articule of 

 "Elemental Mercury In Blood  " Bio medical and Life Sciences and Medicine..

But on the web it had listed .. A rapid Twiching Of the Ear..

http://www.springerlink.com/content/k45536jk5415n278/

Don't Turn A Deaf Ear To Heavy Metal.....

http://www.highfiber.com/~galenvtp/vtlmtltb.htm

This has an articule on oxygen breathing.. Antioxidants coating cells..

And they have a questionary about your health...

And listed on it was Tinnitus, migraine and tension headache ect...

And also one on yeast and symptoms..

But it just had loads of information and it said also...

The major toxcity of mercury is manifested in the central nervous system.

It also is toxic to cellular membranes..

It inactivates a number of enzymes and also suppresses the immune response..

How many pounds of Mercury are beltched into the air we breath every year by the hundreds of coal burning planets in the nation ? About 96,000 pounds...

http://www.freehealthadvice.net/page%205.htm

But also I read recently in the newspaper that study finds dangerous neurotoxin accumulating in food chain, animals, not just fish.. Warning !

And I was doing a search under free radicals.. There's even more there to read as well....

Free radicals are not good for the inner ear.. As I read what someone wrote about it on another thread .....

Mercury is not Vitamin " M "

The GTP binding of mercury is just one of the terrible things that happens. It floods neurons and the supporting glia or ‘glue’ cells around neurons that nourish nerve cells with free radicals, excess Calcium and induces brain cell programmed death called ‘apoptosis’. It depletes the Glutathione in nerves, which removes the peroxinitryl radical, the most dangerous radical and the probable source of brain damage in Alzheimer’s brain cell death and neurofibillary tangles and amyloid deposits that gum up nerve cell function

http://www.infowars.com/articles/science/mercury_not_vitamin_m.htm

Wow.. This is good.. I was looking up brain inflammation and tinnitus their was alot of listing but I want to go back to that later...

This one... This artcule is a good one....  groups of neurons that had become selective for specific volume levels groups of neurons ......

A must read it in full form....

I should have put this one under my neuron thread as I think neurons in the brain are really important and thats why... But this thread is related as well.. 

I'm " Thank's To Vangard " looking up free radicals and inflammation in the brain and ears and I found this articule.......

But Neurons matter alot... In the auditory or hearing system  "the brain "... 

Brain Can Be Trained To Process Sounds In Alternative way...UCSF Scientists....

UCSF scientists have found that the brains of rats can be trained to learn an alternate way of processing changes in the loudness of sound.

Over the centuries, philosophers and scientists have put together a picture of how our brains model the world through the mechanism of our senses. Physical stimuli such as light, sound, and touch are converted by our sensory organs -- eyes, ears, and skin -- into electrical signals, which are processed by neurons in different areas of the brain.

As those neurons fire, we see, hear, and feel. When the light or sound changes in intensity, our neurons fire faster or slower in direct ratio to the change. That ratio varies depending on the sense involved, but is constant for each sense: the louder a sound, the faster the neurons in the auditory cortex fire.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/12/041219180618.htm 

Plus Mercury In the Environment ----  Detoxification of mercury...

Information on all that is found in this site....

http://www.users.bigpond.com/difarnsworth/

This is an interesting site.. All you you need to know about lead...

Lead is a pervasive environmental poison that effects every system in the body....

 " And that goes for the ears as well ".......

It can damage the nervous system ...

It can cause hearing loss...

Headaches insomnia loss of balance..

Lead causes problems with nerve conduction...

The relay of messages to and from the brain....

http://www.leadpoison.net/studies/health.htm 

Chelating agents ?

Alphalipoic Acid ( LA )

La naturally increases your body cysteine and glutathione levels...

Sweating mercury out in a sauna...

Chelating with silver fillings......

http://www.adhdezine.com/Mar01.html  

Interesting... ((( Smiles )))

All about tinnitus its causes ect...  It also says...

Amalagrams fillings in the teeth may leak out mercury adversley affecting your sensitivity to tinnitus..

Also.. This is controversial..

I'm just reporting what the site says I have no idea how effective this is at all. For tinnitus.. It just happens to be on this site....

It's in Austrialia...

Laser Therapy.. In many but not all cases the tinnitus is cured/ receeded..

http://www.shiatsuman.com/Resources/Tinnitus/tabid/1029/Default.aspx

Lynn,

Please don't get offended.  You've basically covered the gamut under this thread regarding mercury, lead and other potential toxins, as well as drugs.  However, I repeat as before:

"Heavy metal is more likely to cause hyperacusis than heavy metals."

When I say "heavy metal," obviously I'm referring to the 125 + decibel kind found in many rock bands and concerts.

Keep in mind, I'm not arguing with you.  I would never tell anyone to go out and choose to fill their mouth with silver/amalgam, or douse themselves with mercury, or eat lead paint chipping off the old tenement walls.  However, it is much more likely that the onset of hyperacusis/tinnitus is much more related to very loud noise exposure (in my case mri, in others, rock bands or gunshots)  than chemicals.  So I would suggest avoiding concerts.  If it's your livlihood, you've got to control the volume.

Also you wrote the following, regarding Meniere's Disease:

Causes..

There is seldom no definite cause of Meniere or Meniere-like symptoms. It can be many things like: Stress, High blood pressure, Cholesterol, Bad diet, Too much Coffee, Bad blood supply to the organs in the ear, Too much to drink, Salt, Sugar, Lack of sleep, Smoking, Alcohol, Virus (perhaps Herpes), Obesity, Noise, Hereditary, Tumor, Previous accident with a blow to the head, Auto immune complications, Amalgam tooth - fillings, hypothyroidism, Lead-poisoning, Candida Albicans, (=Yeast infection), Vaccinations etc.

You realize of course, you’ve just eliminated about 99.999% of the human race.  So I guess everybody would have meniere’s.

Relax Lynn.  Trust me, if you can somehow stay away from pounding heavy metal or any kind of rock noise (yeah, it's noise…Mozart is music) and avoid very noisy mri’s, gunshots, loud machinery, construction, very loud traffic, pneumatic drills etc., you probably won’t get hyperacusis.  But hey…it’s almost impossible to avoid all noise, so you do the best you can.  Just gradually introduce yourself to the world of “normal” sound levels.   And avoid the obvious triggers.  That’s why no more high db MRI tests for me.

BTW, I had a friend who used to burst open mercury thermometers when he was a kid.  I think he burned his hands a couple of times when the stuff dripped out on his skin.  That must be some heavy exposure there but he's fine today, although I don't advocate playing with mercury.

And remember, there are plenty of natural substances that are often deadly, and/or can trigger serious allergic reactions.   Many of those *natural* things are added to skin creams and commercial soaps.  Green tea and Vitamin E can burn the skin and cause severe allergic reactions, as can cloves.  And you won't catch me walking au naturel and barefoot in a patch of au natural poison oak or ivy.

Always the best,

Bonnie

Hi Bonnie, ((( Smiles )))

How are you doing ???  I'm not offended at all...

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"Heavy metal is more likely to cause hyperacusis than heavy metals."

When I say "heavy metal," obviously I'm referring to the 125 + decibel kind found in many rock bands and concerts.

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That's true..

But  not everybody................ that works with loud powertools or around jackhammer's and construction  noise or goes to loud concerts or play's in an orchestra with the horn section blowing in their ears or the string section by their ears or has an MRI or two... will come down with this condition..

Some people will never get tinnitus either they will just pleasantly go deaf over time.. Not saying it's pleasant to go deaf at all.

But.. Even in Dr J's book which is named  " Implementing the Neurophysiological model " and mercury mess's with the neurons in the brain and body ears and how important brain plasticity is which is necessary for TRT..... 

He talks about other causes for H and T. Medical conditions that are associated with H and T. Toxic medications that are associated with H and T..  And the unknown factors..

And lots of people don't allways know the cause or the exact cause of their conditions or what the contributing factors are... And even if they have a good idea..

And not one cause fits all. And then there is unknown why one may be more prone to developing hyperacusis or tinnitus then another...  

But in Dr J's book .. He says.. It is impossible at present to the vadility of any theory of the mechanisms responsible for hyperacusis because animal models and strong epidemilogical data are lacking...

Decreased sound tolerance can exist as an independent medical diagnoise, or it may be associated with more complex problems...

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If there is a substance that is toxic and can has been known to... cause tinnitus , sound sensitivity , deafness , hearing loss ect....

A substance that is known to cause theses things and can mess with the brain and the auditory system and it's not in the unknown field..  

And on this board there are lots of people that have problem with their auditory system and brains..

I'm going to report on what I know about it.. What can cause problems in thoses areas...

Remember the lead epidimic not that long ago.... It was big thing about child and lead exposure at the time.. Well ...

They chelated the lead out.. Thats the method they used back then approved by the FDA to do...

Why did that do that unless they believed it would make a difference in their lives..

If they didn't believe it mattered..... they would have just left it there... 

But it does matter.. And there is no safe level of mercury exposure..

That.. You can find that on governmental sites.. As well.  

As with medications.. Why do some people get all the side effects and some people don't.. Everything effects some people more then others and even thou I have heard thoses stories in the past about what you wrote..

Does not mean that that substance is not in their bodies till this day and it didn't contribute in some way to an illness they may have now..

The EPA.. What Can I do Spills and Thermometers...

The medical literature contains some cases of serious illness and even death resulting from exposure to mercury from fever thermometers.

Plus you go straight to your nearest approved mercury disposal location..

It gets in the enivroment.. air... and it's never good.. 

Though like it's not in the air and food chain and water as we speak right now... ((( Smiles ))) 

http://www.epa.gov/region1/eco/mercury/spillstherm.html

It doesn't come even close to green tea vitamin E or posion oak or ivy and you wouldn't find me walking thru that as well..

I'm glad we agree on that...

I believe because of the knowns about what it does cause is a good enough reason for a person suffering with tinnitus or hyperacusis or any strange ear disorder to check it out..

It's easy to have done.. And there are ways to have it reduced or removed...

And thats good to know ....

As nobody wants a substance in them known to weaken the ears and brain..

If they can do something about it...    

Right Bonnie .... You Take Care...

Sorry Bonnie.. I'll finnish up there later.. I did not write that mineres thing...

It's a website you can look up and I think that just list's possible cause's and not for everyone...  that one can look up..

Sometimes I just post interesting sites I find...

But I wanted to look up haircells and their connection to neurons in the brain... Thats more into my line of thought..

And also I told my doctor of my tinnitus acting up " stimulated "... after that loud event because he always ask's me about my tinnitus and he brought up neurons and haircells while we were talking about it...

So I thought.. Ya.. Got to look that up !!!

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Neurons because of their two branches connect the hair cells to the brain center... Proper functioning of the neurons and the hair cells...

http://www.mcl.tulane.edu/departments/pathology/fermin/HC&NFigsTable.html

 ( The Neuron Cables )

This is interesting.. Neurons deep in the brain which send information back to the haircells..

http://www.bcm.edu/oto/research/cochlea/Volta/13.html

Oh wow...

This site is just wow..

Question answers and comments... Hearing sciences ..

It talks about the sensory neurons neurons in the auditory pathway..

Auditory pathway .. Superior Olive Complex...

Question 57 .. Describes the pathway of the acoustic reflex..

A short cut as I can't write the whole thing out..

Enters the ear- brainstem- medial superior olive - to stapedius muscle causeing it to contract..

It's like what Dr Vernon told me long ago.. Wham.. Comes back as to loud...

http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/WebQnA/webqna.pl?module=tbell2-25&action=printall

I'll search for more later... 

A case study.. CDC wonder .. A hyperactive 5 yr old with disturbed hearing.

Lead toxicity.. Sources of lead exposure..

Hearing acuity was below normal..

Chelating agents...

http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/p0000017/p0000017.asp#head002001000000000

Interesting .. I'll read this later...

Neurotoxic and the central nervous system...

Exposure to Mercury...

Through its affinity for sulfhydryl-groups mercury bonds very firmly to structures in the nervous system.

Other studies showed that mercury is taken up in the periphery by all nerve endings........

Axion of the nerves....... Brainstem......................

http://www.mercuryexposure.org/index.php?article_id=66 

I'll get back to above later.. ((((((((( smiles)))))))))

But I was reading in Dr Jastreboff's book TRT Implementing the Neurophysiological Model....

In the glossary.. Neuron... The morphological and functional unit of the nervous system. A neuron comprises a nerve cell body , short radiating process called dendrites and one long process called the axon. The axon plus it's covering or sheath in the nerve fiber. Syn: Nerve cell....

And then I read in the Glossary of his book...

Lyme Disease .. A chronic  infection transmitted by the animal tick Borrelia burgdorferi, which effects the nervous system among other effects. Hyperacusis is frequently one of the symptoms. Lyme disease is treatable with large doses of antibiotics....

Also I read on page 227 .. The issue of how tinnitus- related neuronal activity is processed within the nervous system is basically still open....

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Neurons are an interesting thing.. The dendrites..

I have this newspaper articule if I can find it from months ago. I know It stashed it somewhere but it was based on research on what mercury does to the neurons in explanation in research and that word ... dendrites was in that articule.. 

It's just a facanating subject..

Hypercusis.. besides just being noise related can be caused or trigged by other things as well ... we allready know that....

It's just to early into research to rule everything out as a possible backdoor cause in some people....

That may effect the nervous system nerve cells in action...

And that has been shown to effect the hearing in many ways allready.. 

Thats why some of Marsha posts on certain subjects over the years I've read with high interest..  Inflammation.. Interesting...

I think keeping an open mind into research and future finds is how many problems are solved for many different people over time...

As there are many other pathways to hyperacusis disorder besides the norm... Research opens up doors.. No matter where it may lead...

But people dared to think....

Thats why doctors started washing their hands during invasive percedures.. Others poop pooed that kind of thinking away as bizarre but they dared to think..

Out of the box.. Out of the norm.. It saved lives.... 

Plus where else does it come from.. The Mercury exposure we all get... 

(((( Smiles )))

Acid rain.. Acid rain is a serious thing..

Connecticut Department Of Environmental Protection...

Mercury and Acid Rain...

http://dep.state.ct.us/whatshap/Press/1998/mercury.htm   

You can read more about Acid Rain from the Environmental Protection Agency.  The EPA.. Acid Rain is real........

http://www.epa.gov/acidrain/what/index.html

Makeing the connection between sounds and a reward changes Brain and Behavior....

Neural Responsiveness increases......

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061019162118.htm

Excellent Articule.......................

Heavy Metals such as mercury act as FREE RADICALS which are highly reactive, charged particules that damage body tissue...

Contribute to autoimmune disease ...

Neurotoxin...

Concentrated in Neurons and motor neurons...

Thyroid.....................

http://www.newtreatments.org/Mercury/ga/623/index.php@links

UB, Mlitary collabarate on design and testing of first drug to prevent noise induced hearing loss...

The villain is oxidative stress damage caused by too many free oxygen molecules , or free radicals....

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/fast-execute.cgi/article-page.html?article=65120009 

Oh... The history on mercury goes way back in time... And what a history it is.. Did wonders for China's first emperor Qin Shi Huang Di.... I think we could all learn from the emperors expirence.. He learned the hard way..

It's not good to take in any medications at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)#History

Alot of people don't know about this so.... (((( Smiles ))))

Because of all the information I have provided about this subject I thought I could put some people who want to find out if this may be effecting their lives their auditory system their health but the fear of the old way.....

Chelation by interavenous IV to be holding them back from looking into this..

I mean true chelation is doing it right.. Right ????

Patients want to know what's new out there and the newest latest easiest way to go with it is.....

Rectal chelation therapy.. Of course you will need the testing and a physican to start this treatment............ but rectal chelation takes IV visits out of the procedure...

You can do it at home if you want..

It's easier on your gut.. Yeast.. It's easy to do and effective.. I know..

And it really works.. It takes the mercury out to be excreted in your urine..

I've seen lead and other metals come out as well..

Verified by an independant lab..

I'd like to do it as well. Get the testing done on myself..

Clear out all I can..

But I have to find out if it leeches out from metal mercury based fillings as well.. If it pulls it out..

But it comes out anyway regardless into the body.... better to get it out..

But I base this on a web site I read .. I'd have to find out about this as there  is no way..... based on my hyperacusis tinnitus expirence I can have them all taken out at this time..

Thou I wish I could...  

But based on haveing autistic children.. I may be sensitive or allergic or effected by metal exposure more then others..

But look how many of them there are theses day.. 1 of 166 children..

But even without kids who are on the spectrum.. Who knows if one may be highly sensitive or allergic to theses toxic metals as well.

I don't think there is a known test for that.. How does one know for sure ???

But knowing what it can do to neurons and the brain and auditory system .....

It can be a cause of tinnitus and sound sensitivitys as well as other ear problems I just feel like.. Without it.. More toxic free... 

I might be better off for it.. And now.. It can be done rectally..

Like thoses melting suppositorys they use in children or adults for softening stools..

It's pretty much like that.. Thats not real hard at all to do..

Compare it to the old way.. The new way is lots better...

And I know it works as well... Heres information on it as well... 

http://www.chelationdetoxamin.com/townsend.htm     

Oh wow.. I just found an articule on metals and kidney autoimmunity...

I know that with tinnitus... Chineses medicine focuses on the kidneys..

It also has links to related articules on EHP...

Pub Med....

Wow.. Evironmental agents and autoimmune diseases...

Interesting stuff...

http://www.ehponline.org/members/1999/suppl-5/753-765bigazzi/bigazzi-full.html   

Adding to the subject above... (((( Smiles )))

Audiology online.......

Autoimmune Ear Disease...

( AIEDS) : Autoimmune Diseases with Audio Vestibular Involvement..

Systemic lupus is on there as well as lyme disease...

Interesting.. I know with lyme one can have hyperacusis disorder..

Lupus.. I've been reading about that.. It's an autoimmune thing..

http://www.audiologyonline.com/articles/article_detail.asp?article_id=364   

Regeneration in the ears of immunedeficent mice...

Paralysed rats regrow their nerve cells..

Oh I see.. This has to do with stem cells..

Stem cell breakthroughs... On this site...

http://www.zoolgi.com/ear/regeneration-ears-immunodeficient-mice-682.html

Oh I see.. This site has alot on nervous system diseases.. Neurodegenerative..

The brain and also facial nerve paralysis..

Stem cell research..  

http://www.zoolgi.com/nervous-system-diseases/

I can't remember were it was on the board but Dan prints out helpfull information from time to time and it mentioned vitamin E being good for the ears..

I metioned that in my hyperacusis I used alot of olive oil  on that thread which contains vitamin E which I thought was a good thing to do at the time..

But not only that.. Vitamin an antioxadant can be good for the brain too.

Beta-Amyloid.. The protein is thought to produce free radicals in the brain which are toxic to the brain.. Vitamin E an antoxidant appears to work by destroying free radicals ( Oxidants )..

Antioxadant intervention.... Heavy metals .. Mercury Lead.. In my search on this subject...

http://www.seniorjournal.com/NEWS/2000%20Files/Dec%2000/12-19-00VitminE.htm

The Franklin Institute

The Human Brain.. Micronutrients

The physics of combating free radicals with antixodants ..

Free radicals and the neurons...

Oxadative damage studies...

And it talks about vitamin E and the other vitamins as well in this perspective of research ..

http://www.fi.edu/brain/micro.htm

Mercury the new lead and what happened to our fish...

Neurological imparment... sensory dysfunction..

Is there a link to heart problems ??

I just didn't know that a mercury thermometer contains one gram of mercury, Said Colins " enough mercury to containminate all the fish in a 20 acre ( 8 hectare) lake..

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This is mostly about fish and I read alot about fish on this site...

http://www.vaccinetruth.org/mercury1.htm

I threw all my tuna out because of the risks.. I use to love tuna two..

Ate it alot before I came down with T and H.. My worse off daughter loved it as well.. The high functioning one wouldn't eat it.. My worse off daughter... the one that covered her ears with her hands alot in class..

And had the problem I wrote about long ago on the old board..

Because of a loud PC radio playing on the special ed bus.. She got sound sensitive problems from that for awhile where she would not go into the bathroom.. especially the acoustic sounding no windows small one downstairs..

I had hyperacusis at that time and I knew how it sounded in the bathroom. Sound just echoed all over the walls.

She had her hands over her ears screaming too loud too loud after she got off that bus and the respite and IF had to calm her down.. I couldn't do it..

Hyperacusis... 

She recovered from that incident but .. it just concerns me that she may be more vunerable to a disorder such as hyperacusis in the future because her ears can react like that..

My other daughter who never eat tuna with me is hypo.. Not hyper.. 

I just.. When I find out about the tuna and  nobody told me the risks back then I threw it all out.. I just don't believe it's good for the ears or brain anymore..

But omega three is really good for you.. It's just terrible as fish is natural in nature meant for our consumption and good heath..

Who knew ??? Now they say pregnant women and children under 6..

She was under 6.. I loved tuna long ago and I thought I was doing the right thing for her brain health by her eating it and I worried about my other daughter who would not eat it..

As thats how the info was back then.. Fish is good for you..Even with the risks I still hear some of that yet....  

But the one that ate it at a young age has sound sensitivity problems and so did I finally... get them.. The one that didn't actually faired better...

I just think about that... Not saying that caused my hyperacusis but what does it contribute..

For my ear health I think more about what I eat now..

But the ears and brain also need the omega's as well..  

There is nordics natural Arctic Cod Liver Oil.. It's a good dietary supplement and kids love as it's flavored.. Adults could use it too..

Walnuts are great but they are not complete as fish..

I'm just more suspicious now because.. The advice of what is changes all the time...

But I can't take the risk for me...   Anymore...