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I don't even hear.
I have a cousin who is a lot of T years old, and he works in noisy places and the T never went up in volume.

maybe it's a new generation of tinnitus?

My theory is that reactivity and dysacusis are some brain hallucination due to onset of tinnitus. The brain is like WTF, why suddenly everything sounds differently (due to tinnitus) and tries to adapt itself to new acoustics, and eventually brain learns to process sounds despite tinnitus and reactivity disappears. It's how I imagine it works.

If I can lose the reactivity I will be one happy camper.

@Keith Handy that's right, I feel like reactivity is a forbidden move in this life game. It's like God says, now you have tinnitus. I say ok, it's harsh but I can get used to it and atleast I can hide from it by going outside. And God says, your tinnitus will also be reactive so you won't be able to hide from it anywhere. And I say, wait, you can't... Oh no!

The theory is that there's much more hyperexcitability starting from onset, which goes down or resolves after some time.

I have fluctuations and spikes even though I am practically a hermit, so it's not sound reactivity.

My money is on drugs like Ebselen to really help with these, those new depression meds could help too IMO

when my T started i had sound sensitivity, every sound hurt so much. My mom had never even heard of that and she used to sleep in the RAIN because of her T in the beginning 20 years ago. She's a pilot (yes still) I don't know if she's experienced the soundsensitivity and simply forgot how it was, or if some people never experience it at all. I definitely wont forget, cos how awful it was.