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Tinnitus , like insomnia, is not usually the real issue. The issue that brings patients for treatment is generally anxiety or frustration with tinnitus or insomnia, or other similar problems. Any treatment that lowers anxiety has a very good chance of 'helping' the tinnitus or insomnia -- the problem does not go away or resolve, but the sufferer does not ... suffer ... as much.

And obviously everything is a bell shaped curve and any person may be outside of the +/1 2SD central area.

I am high right now, and my ears are ringing like a motherfucker. But I can tune it out. I can do that with or without smoking. I do notice that when I'm stoned, I can either ignore the ringing or I fixate on it. Fixation is bad. I try not to.

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It's me, Dave

Who is it?

Dave.

Dave's not here.

It's me, Dave.

Dave is not here.

What type of shrooms if you don’t mind me asking. I have been dealing with the EEEEEEEEEE constantly for over two years now. Nothing help. I did find that cannabis made it louder. I’ve smoked most my adult like in a regular basis and it just happened one day and never stopped. Sometimes I think blood pressure and body inflammation are a major factor

I had to quit smoking when I started a new job and in the year or so since my tinnitus has gotten less severe.

So reading the study it is less about cannabis actually affecting the ringing in your ears and more about treating the negative impacts of tinnitus on your life. Yes it doesn't make the ringing in your ears go away but neither does any other treatment method. This is a study on whether or not cannabis would be an effective method to treat the symptoms and results of tinnitus not whether it cures it.

Anxiety and depression are extremely common things that go along with tinnitus. If you don't have tinnitus imagine it being something similar to the times you suddenly become very conscious of your tongue in your mouth or when you become conscious of your breathing. It's something that is there all the time but how heavily it impacts you varies. Sometimes it doesn't bother us at all and we can almost tune it out. Other times, such as when my anxiety is flaring, it becomes deafening and makes it impossible to concentrate. This winds up compounding on my anxiety more often than not and the negative feedback loop can be devastating.

Cannabis has been shown to help with anxiety for many but for some it makes their anxiety worse and creates paranoia. Even this effect can generally be lessened with a different strain or delivery method but there are a rare few who find no help with any strain or delivery method.

Anecdote time:

For me personally the positive effects depend on strain and dosage. Sativas tend to make me paranoid in higher dosages and that paranoia starts those seeds of anxiety which usually starts that negative feedback loop and my tinnitus deafens me and I start to get paranoid about whether or not it's just quiet or if I lost bunch of sounds that I'm supposed to be hearing to the ringing. If I avoid that specific scenario then it generally helps curb the anxiety and helps take the focus away from the ringing. It's not a cure but I also haven't seen a need to seek out a more effective treatment either.

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Hmmm maybe there's a correlation between weed smoking and regular concert goers

This but at a deafening volume if I have no background sounds around me.

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That’s some very cool work!

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I know someone who endured horrific abuse in childhood and they are face blind. This is fascinating. And heartbreaking.

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Every time I buy cannabis I hear a ringing from the dispensary cash register.

I've been smoking weed for years and my tinnitus has gotten so much worse xD