[TheForge] Re: Tinnitus

[Andrew Vida]

**150**cc?  Jeeeez... that is a lot of fluid.  Where'd they inject it? 
Do I want to know?  I may have to check this out one day...  when I 
ain't be po'.

Patty Draper/Bill Robertson wrote:
> I suffered severe damage to one side of my head many years ago after being
> run over by a bicycle that left me deaf in one ear with very bad tinnitus.
> Many years and many doctors later I went to the Shea clinic in Memphis Tenn.
> where they gave me an intravenous injection of lidocane about 150 cc's.  Ten
> minutes later I was 80% improved, it literally saved my life as I was not
> going to continue to live the way I was.  This treatment is still given
> there and I'll gladly provide anyone interested with the phone numbers and
> stats on the procedure. It is not an effective cure for all conditions and
> is more effective with low pitch vs high pitch problems, however it made a
> world of difference for me and might be worth a try. There is little risk
> and no side effects to the treatment.   I am always amazed when talking to
> doctors that they have never heard of the procedure.  I have made it kind of
> a mission to educate as many as I can.        Bill