Tinnitus and auto-immune diseases
I have recently been noticing that quite a few posters on this board either had an auto-immune disease before the T or have since developed an auto-immune disease since the T started. I also had new...
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I believe that some subset of tinnitus cases are caused by some kind of autoimmune disease. Actually, that is uncontroversial, since there is even an autoimmune disease that specifically targets the...
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Thanks all for your responses.Jim, can I get disability due to a CVA of my ears? My right side is affected more and I have noticed I have trouble spellllin. Butt, I can still kick. I mean, I can stll...
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Phil,I think it can happen both ways: one can develop an auto-immune response that can trigger tinnitus [an example might be AIED], or the development of tinnitus [due to the tremendous initial...
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I've never heard of an autoimmune disease being caused by stress. In fact, the old standard treatment for AI diseases is suppression of the immune system, something that stress actually...
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Definite connection, in my case. Which way the causality flows, I don't know.starscm
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Jim wrote:I've never heard of an autoimmune disease being caused by stress. In fact, the old standard treatment for AI diseases is suppression of the immune system, something that stress actually...
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Plausible or not, I don't believe there is any evidence for it, Op. I have a friend who has been cured of MS (fingers crossed) by having her immune system destroyed and rebuilt from scratch. The...
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I tested positive for Lupas and Sjogrens disease. Both are AI dissorders. One of the many symptoms I display is a condition called Alopecia Areata. What happens is I will wake up and a 1 inch diameter...
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Dan, sometimes AI-related symptoms do respond to steroids in the middle ear. A number of different techniques have been developed for administering the steroid to the right spot where it can cross a...
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This is where a massive database compilation of medical history, symptoms, concurrent medical problems, etc., might be helpful. If people with tinnitus show a history of auto-immune disease that shows...
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Jim, What kind of specialist did they recieve these treatments from? ThanksDan
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Jim... do you how long both of these patients had t and perhaps what kind? Central, one ear high pitched ect?Thanks againDan
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Dan, the treatments are usually done by a team--a neurotologist and a rheumatologist. I don't know anything about the tinnitus characteristics involved.You can scan PubMed for terms like Autoimmune...
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Jim,Here are some articles that talk about the link between stress and immune function/autoimmune...
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Op, I don't see much in these cites that relates to evidence of stress causing AI disease. The final cite you give seems to say there's a little evidence that long-term stress reduces the incidence of...
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Not sure about the Autoimmune stuff but I do know that in some people the ultra high stress Tinnitus causes can contribute to Diabetes starting in a person especially if they are already genetically...
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Marko, that's interesting. Got a cite on that study?starscm
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Bumping this up to page 1 as a companion to the discussion of autoimmune disease there.
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Scott,Go to Pubmed and type in jannetta hollihan and the abstract will come up.
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Shortly before my T started I was diagnosed as having Oral Lichen Planus, in fact I had to go to hospital to have a biopsy taken to make sure it was not cancerous. Lichen Planus is also known as an...
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