Talk:Patulous Eustachian tube

message: The original author of this article, David Bergan, suffered 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:
=== Moved from article: ===
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)
replies: text: I haven't had PET for awhile now, but 3-4 years ago I would order Jai-Wei-Gui-Pi-Tang from http://www.treasureofeast.com/.  Hope that helps.  Kind regards, David Bergan 17:26, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Unfortunately they can't ship to the UK. I have tried the Chinese herbal shops in the UK but they have never heard of it! Thanks anyway!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.129.210.61 (talk) 08:22, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: David's personal experience and Jia-Wei-Gui-Pi-Tang

message: 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)
thread_title:  Moved from article: 

message: I too suffer from PET which I have constantly, only holding nose and sniffing hard will close the tube for a few seconds! I was wondering where David gets Jia-Wei-Gui-Pi-Tang from as I would like to try it but cannot find it here in the UK!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bmoyni (talk • contribs) 13:51, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't had PET for awhile now, but 3-4 years ago I would order Jai-Wei-Gui-Pi-Tang from http://www.treasureofeast.com/.  Hope that helps.  Kind regards, David Bergan 17:26, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Unfortunately they can't ship to the UK. I have tried the Chinese herbal shops in the UK but they have never heard of it! Thanks anyway!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.129.210.61 (talk) 08:22, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jia-Wei-Gui-Pi-Tang 

message: This article reads too informally - it constantly refers to the reader: 
"If you have access to an audiologist (hearing scientist) they should be able to diagnose the condition with little difficulty."
"You may find that lying down or bending over closes the tube and eliminates the problem."
It's inconsistent in that it refers to "the patient" elsewhere but then refers to "you" everywhere else. I think for an encyclopedic article, it should refer to "the patient" and use this referencing consistently. I would make the change myself but this would require a lot of editing and I didn't want to make a mess.
Any thoughts?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.65.221.154 (talk) 20:12, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Along with this, the "Treatment" section of the article is horrible.  You can remove all the "you"s you want, but it doesn't *really* change anything.  It's not the word "you" that causes the style problem, it's the style fundamentally, which is often indicated by excessive use of "you".  style for medical articles.  Ultimately, most of the treatment section is garbage; it acts as a source for medical advice (describing what you can do and how) rather than simply describing various treatments commonly used for the disorder.  Furthermore, they are unreferenced - unless those little tidbits of advice can be referenced, they ought to be deleted wholesale. Glacialfury (talk) 10:08, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hopefully I've straightened that out now with a rewrite.  *Vendetta* (whois talk edits) 07:22, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage of "you" 

message: 24.193.14.34 (talk) 00:27, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  reoccuring PET 

message: :Hi Yall.. I made some minor edits to the misplaced and odd "PET SYMPTOMS AND CONSEQUENCES" non-section. This part of the article sounds like someone from Asia wrote it.. lol
Obviously the page is convoluted. It starts with "Symptoms" and then in the "diagnosis" section it has a part that all of a sudden is titled "PET SYMPTOMS AND CONSEQUENCES"? This contains stuff that (if true) should be in the above section for symptoms. The statement about patients needed to be monitored for depression and suicide is just an opinion unless someone finds a source for this..
 
Also, lets make sure the *facts* in this article are sourced. This is not a serious health condition as far as physical harm to the body, but this condition does cause patients much distress (My Fiance is ready to blow her head off after 6 months of this disease), so lets fix this so it is up to date with the latest known facts, with sources, and also clean up the grammar. People looking for answers about this deserve a well written and informative article that has the latest medical facts. 
Lastly, I am not the best person to rewrite this, as my writing skills are nowhere near good enough to write medical literature, so hopefully someone else can take the time to help rewrite this in proper English (with no Japaneese sounding errors lol)
Thanks
-Jf (talk) 13:00, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  HELP! This article is a mess!