Over the past 15 years, we have received numerous phone calls and e-mails from tinnitus patients desperately seeking a cure for disabling or persistent tinnitus. Sometimes we receive only one call from a patient, but occasionally a patient keeps calling back for weeks or months looking for a scientific breakthrough that never seems to come as quickly as mysteries are solved on CSI, the TV criminal series. Several common themes have emerged from interactions with these patients: (1) "I have a roaring sound in my ear or head, but my family and friends don't believe me and think I've become mentally unstable.
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