Talk:Patulous Eustachian tube

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[edit] David's personal experience and Jia-Wei-Gui-Pi-Tang

As stated in the article, I have suffered from PET since I was 20 years old. I wake up with it about once a week. It never hit me mid-day, so if I don't wake up with it, I won't have it at all that day. Without treatment, the PET would go away on its own between noon and 6PM. One year ago I researched this out and found the name of my condition as well as some resources. Since there is no official "cure" to PET I ordered some Jia-Wei-Gui-Pi-Tang (powedered form - you mix it with hot water to make a tea) after stumbling upon the Japanese study and decided to give it a try. It doesn't taste great at first, but you get used to it (and even kind of like it) after a while. But it surely is not addicting, since it is about the last thing I WANT to drink. Anyway, in my situation, it works 100% of the time. I started by taking the tea 3 times a day, the same way the people did in the study. During that time, I noticed that my short-term memory was greatly reduced. After a few weeks I quit with the regular dosage of Jia-Wei-Gui-Pi-Tang (my short-term memory came back), and instead only grabbed for it on the days when I would wake up with PET. (You don't notice the taste so much when you have morning breath...) With this method I have noticed that it closes my tubes 100% of the time and usually within 30-60 minutes. I always used the dosage recommended on the packaging - heat up a coffee cup full of water and then stir in 1 teaspoon of the powdered herbs. I never experimented with either larger or smaller doses.

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I moved these comments from the article page. There is probably some relevant information here, but it needs to be in an encyclopedic style, meaning it's verifiable, and is not original research. David: Good on you for putting so much work in - the next step is to start moving the article more towards . --Singkong2005 14:00, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

(The primary author of this article, David Bergan, suffers from PET and puts his vote in favor of the link with fatty tissue. He has suffered from PET since age 20, and has a ridiculously high metabolism - 6'3" tall, 145 pounds, and thin as a rake despite regularly feasting on meals of 20 chicken nuggets or Double Quarter Pounders.)

Update from David Bergan: In the spring of 2005 I fought off mono. Probably as a result of the disease, the following summer my metabolism slowed and I gained a lot of weight. As mentioned above, I averaged 145 before mono, my lowest point during mono was 135, and by August I was at a healthy (for my height) 180. Since gaining weight I have not ever had a reoccurrence of PET... suggesting that the fat tissue theory is accurate.