Has Anyone Tried Lipo-Flavonoid for Tinnitus ?

[Walter Rego]

I know many of the Forum members must suffer from tinnitus from various environmental causes. Mine is from exposure to gunfire plus loud dirt bikes and a lot of deafening rock concerts in my youth.

I keep hearing commercials for a non-prescription supplement called Lipo-Flavonoid that is supposed to relieve tinnitus. I did a little reading and it seems that it may be more effective on people that have tinnitus from medical issues rather than from loud noise exposure.

I would like to try it anyway but the stuff isn't cheap. CVS gets about $36 for 100 caplets and you are supposed to take 3 per day. Comments or experience with it are welcome.

 

[Watchdog]

Just another over the counter version of snake oil for gullible consumers.

 

[kraynky]

No personal experience here, but I also suffer the aggravation for about the same reasons, except the dirt bikes, skill saws are one of the worst culprits in my case.

I'm guessing it's along the lines of the CBD oil (which didn't work for me), it might work for some folks. However, I think we have damaged parts that can't be fixed with a pill.

I hope I'm wrong about it though.

 

[redlevel]

I did call the tinnitus help hotline.
Got no answer, though.



Just kept on ringing.

 

[sophie]

I have taken Lipo-flavonoid for 5-6 years and I don't know in the long run if it does any good. About a year and a half ago my left ear, which has had bad ringing since the 60's, all of a sudden it chimed up and now I also have a worn out bearing sound with the ringing. My right ear rings also. Don't buy Lipo-flavonoid at CVS, go to Walmart and the price is $24.50 here for the 100 count and they also have a generic in the Equate line at times.

 

[Camster]

I did call the tinnitus help hotline.
Got no answer, though.



Just kept on ringing.

I wasn't signed in, but I simply had to in order to leave a like. ;-)
I haven't found anything that helps my tinnitus.

 

[H Richard]

I have a serenade of cicada's as my tinnitus. I have found that properly programed hearing aids will suppress the noise enough to be nearly unnoticeable. My noise originated by working on Jet Engines running full bore while I did adjustments.

 

[llowry61]

I have the same for the same reasons. From what I am, told there is nothing that can be done. I have just accepted it. It is irreversible damage. That is not what I wanted to be told, but that is what the audiologist stated.

 

[Stevens]

Cicada non stop chorus here too, for several years now. I tried a couple of pill products some years past but no effect from them. I can still hear well over the noise but wonder what is would be like to be rid of it.
Steve W

 

[gman51]

I don't believe any pill will fix tin ear. I read that it can be caused by part of the brain malfunctioning for sound recognition. I read that the sound is the brain's input for lack of hearing input from the ears.
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I think I started noticing problems with tinitis perhaps within the last 7 years. I basically only hear it when I am inactive and in a quiet environment. I really am not bothered by it when I go to bed. It's like I turn off recognition of it at times.

 

[TX-Dennis]

I've had tinnitus since I was a teenager. Doc told me it was probably due to hearing loss. He tested me and found that my hearing was normal for my age at that time. It does tend to deteriorate with age. They never could determine a true cause for mine. I got used to it over the years, I guess. Although I still have it it doesn't really bother me anymore.

 

[carpriver]

I have had it for many, many years, from turbo jets gun fire and loud pipes on V-8 engines. there is nothing that has helped with it. My hearing aid help some.

 

[Sistema1927]

I don't really notice my tinnitus until the tinnitus commercials come on, or threads like this.

 

[lkabug]

My tinnitus was helped by hearing aids which I needed, but refused to admit.
Have had hearing raids for over 40 years now. I have nothing to be of benefit otherwise.
The hearing loss most likely from getting in and out of UH1's with active door gunners in the late 60's.
Doctor said the military should've provided ear protection, I told him it wasn't my ears I was worried about at the time.

 

[walkin jack]

I have a serenade of cicada's as my tinnitus. I have found that properly programed hearing aids will suppress the noise enough to be nearly unnoticeable. My noise originated by working on Jet Engines running full bore while I did adjustments.

Me too! I have been exposed to loud gunfire since the days when it was considered unmanly to wear hearing protection. Lots of loud music on the car radio. A quarter century of loud industrial noise since before the days of hearing conservation the job and, rounding things out, I raced motocross for a while (till I blew out a knee). It's a wonder I can hear anything at all.

As I understand it hearing aids don't block tinnitus for every one but I count it a mercy that mine do. I have never tried any proposed remedy that did any good at all.

 

[ancient-one]

I never had a ringing but a sound that was like a electric motor with a really bad bearing. After several years it stopped and so did much of my hearing. God bless the person that invented hearing aids.

 

[wood714]

I've had it bad for years.

Great multitudes of loud music, 32 years of running large printing presses...I was way too cool to wear the provided hearing protection, hair was most long so nobody could tell. I did start using it when I got older, but the damage was done. In my younger days we never used hearing protection while shooting. After a long session when our ears would be ringing and hurting, we found a couple 357's stuck in the ears didn't really help.

I've got to where I don't notice it so bad unless I think about it...thanks Walter!

 

[Old cop]

I’ve had ringing in my ears for years now and have just learned to live w/it.

 

[RalphMP9FS]

Remember, if you hear ringing, that means you are still alive...

 

[shadetree]

Yep, tried it and it didn't work