The strange term “neurogenic tinnitus

  I don’t know when the term “neurological tinnitus” started to be used, but it seems that people are all of a sudden afraid and helpless of it, just like the term “rhinitis”, which I think is probably related to the rapid development of our country, the proliferation of false information, and the unscrupulous pursuit of profit. The fact that the information that pops up when you search the internet is all this kind of information, which is simply unpleasant for professionals. We have been inculcated by false information for a long time, coupled with the complexity of this discipline of medicine is not the use of simple common sense to be able to discern, so it is easy to be in a hurry, hoping to quickly solve their disease once and for all under the idea, it is easy to be fooled, it is easy to be led astray, pass more people, even some doctors will be anti-education. This is probably the reason for the current situation. But in fact, if you look at the “normal” literature and books in China and abroad, you will find that “tinnitus nervosa” is only a very small branch of tinnitus (a term that is no longer used in professional books), and even a name that should not exist! You should know that tinnitus is a sound that can only be processed by the auditory center of the brain, which is part of the nervous system, and according to this analysis all tinnitus should be related to the nerves, which means that all tinnitus can be called “neurological tinnitus”. This is obviously contradictory to the naming of a symptom, and the word “tinnitus” is sufficient. As for the diseases that cause tinnitus, you must know and be clear that tinnitus is a symptom, not a disease. The practice of diagnosing “neurological tinnitus” without doing any tests and hearing a sound in the ear is either an attempt to cheat or a failure to understand what is causing it. And any promise of a treatable condition based on this is not to be trusted. It may also be that medical problems are so specialized that people are often gullible to believe in the term “cure”, which from a medical point of view is due to the rich connotation of Chinese words. The term “root cure” probably means never having the disease again. This is not possible from any point of view. For example, “rhinitis”, a cold is acute rhinitis, people have to catch a cold countless times in their lives, once cured, it is good, it is difficult to say that the root of the cold? We should look at the disease rationally, and treat it well on the line, do not force what the root cause, otherwise the ultimate victim is themselves. If you want to identify false information about tinnitus, you only need to see whether the other party likes to call it “neurological tinnitus” and whether they like to use the term “cure” to cater to your psychology. Now that we have taught you how to identify false information, let’s talk about tinnitus, which is actually not that scary. Tinnitus, by definition, is a sound that an individual hears in their ears or brain without any external sound source. This condition occurs in 90% of people at some point in their lives. Most of them can relieve themselves and disappear, and only about 20% of them need to seek help from a doctor. The reason is that the causes of these 20% of tinnitus need human intervention to get better, and more than 90% of these causes can be treated to get relief, and only less than 10% of the remaining causes cannot be found by relying on the current level of technology, and if the causes cannot be found by relying on the current level of technology, they can almost Clearly the impact on the human body is negligible, the only impact is the uniqueness of our human —- psychology. In other words, if you have tinnitus, after a reasonable examination and treatment, there is only a less than 1% chance that the cause of tinnitus cannot be found in the end, and in medicine, 1% is already a very small probability event. Therefore, if you have tinnitus, you don’t have to be overly nervous and upset under the stimulation of false information and blindly believe in some “cure” information.