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Big Five Personality Traits are Associated with Tinnitus Improvement Over Time Scientific Reports (Original Post) sprinkleeninow Aug 2022 OP
Wow. Maybe so and this is NOT my area of expertise in medicine, but I do know... hlthe2b Aug 2022 #1
Good point Ponietz Aug 2022 #3
So? If I believe tinnitus is out to get me, then it IS out to get me. Ferrets are Cool Aug 2022 #2

hlthe2b

(105,915 posts)
1. Wow. Maybe so and this is NOT my area of expertise in medicine, but I do know...
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 06:08 AM
Aug 2022

that treatment failures in general--no matter the medical issue-- quite often result in a "blame the patient" conclusion. Whether or not this is fair, accurate, or even relevant in the treatment of tinnitus, I'm not prepared to say, but that was my first impression after a quick perusal of the article.

I do not know how this is helpful to patients. If true, it seems to suggest the need for a psychological referral for the majority of these patients---just as we all too often do for chronic or neurologic pain (especially among those practitioners who really do not understand the full spectrum of pain and their origins/different pathogenesis).

Maybe this approach will be validated, but this leaves me a bit disquieted and thinking oh, no, not again...

Ponietz

(3,256 posts)
3. Good point
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 06:45 PM
Aug 2022

Seems to me, also, that it’s BS, since common sense indicates that tinnitus patients who do not improve after so much treatment might experience increased distress, anxiety, etc., leading to the data which show they score lower on the Big 5, while those who improve will naturally be happy, more agreeable, etc.

So the clinical results are the cause.

Also, an ENT recently told me that amitriptyline, a personality sledgehammer is, still, the frontline drug used to treat it.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,837 posts)
2. So? If I believe tinnitus is out to get me, then it IS out to get me.
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 06:58 AM
Aug 2022

Is that what I read?
Personally, and what doctors have told me, I believe it has more to do with stress than anything else. When I am more stressed, it gets worse.

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