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How old are you? Your audiogram looks OK for a 65-year-old.

Most people are here because of hearing loss acquired by obvious and less obvious means. In my case, I suspect that the main cause was a soft blow to my left ear while landing on a yoga mat. Somehow, I lost the high-frequency hearing (>10 kHz). This is just speculation because I will never...

@Lucia Zuani, I used AudioCardio for 6 months. It is a waste of time and money.

Actually, he is endorsing music rather sound therapy. I agree that music is better than just sound because music is able to reach your emotions. Once one is able to listen and enjoy music with relentless tinnitus, habituation is in reach.

Wearing the noise-cancelling headphones all day is not a good term solution, and probably making the noise sensitivity worse because your hearing is not used to be around noise anymore. I had a very long period that I was very afraid of noises because of my reactive tinnitus, but slowly I...

"Getting used to it", "living with it" are disguised with fancy names: neuroplasticity, habituation... At the end, no matter what, tinnitus improves for some people, it remains the same for the majority, and get worse for a few people. The path of this illness is independent of what you do, as...

You have tried so many things... However, the right answer is to do nothing. If I had to start to my tinnitus journey again, the truth is that I would avoid any fight against the monster.

Are you reactive to comments or oversensitive to comments? If you were less dogmatic, you would get fewer criticisms. "Oversensitivity to noise hyperacusis" is an opaque term, "reactive tinnitus" is not.

We all agree about what reactive tinnitus is, except @Michael Leigh. It does not matter whether it is a medical condition or not. This term simply helps to communicate a very specific flavor of the tinnitus experience, and not a very nice one by the way. I don’t understand the persistence and...

I don't care about what those without tinnitus have to say about tinnitus. They are ignorants.

@ErikaS, fluctuations are very common. My tinnitus has been very fluctuating in volume and sound type since the onset 9 years ago. Now, it is just a bit more stable than during the first few months, but I still get very different sounds that change every few hours or every few days. One of the...