Can Tinnitus of Unknown Origin Also Go Away?

[Aschenherz]

Hello, Dear Reader,

I have read many posts in the success stories section about tinnitus that has gone away after several years.

But all posts from there are about acoustic drama or loud noises as causes.

Are there stories about tinnitus with unknown origin that got away after some time?

 

[Red]

Really? IMO most of the success stories are from members with unknown causes but I have not been keeping tally.

 

[SilverSpiral]

Hello, Dear Reader,

I have read many posts in the success stories section about tinnitus that has gone away after several years.

But all posts from there are about acoustic drama or loud noises as causes.

Are there stories about tinnitus with unknown origin that got away after some time?

From my time on this forum, I am lead to believe that cases that are not related to acoustic trauma, and are not something like menier's or acoustic neuroma are the most treatable forms of tinnitus, though I may be incorrect, as I mainly read about acoustic trauma induced tinnitus as that is what caused mine.

 

[ajith]

What are the chances of recovery for tinnitus caused by eardrum disturbance(scratch/tiny perforation)?

 

[Bill Bauer]

Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (ISSHL) = hearing loss with unknown cause. T that accompanies ISSHL has no known origin:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4912237/
"In acute Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss, tinnitus loudness decreased rapidly in cases of mild-moderate hearing loss, and tinnitus had completely resolved in two-thirds of patients after 3 months. Hearing recovery preceded tinnitus resolution. When associated with severe-profound hearing loss, tinnitus improved significantly less. Complete hearing recovery and full tinnitus remission were both about three times more frequent in mild-moderate hearing loss patients than in severe-profound cases. Improvement in tinnitus loudness over time can be approximated by a negative exponential function."

 

[Alue]

Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (ISSHL) = hearing loss with unknown cause. T that accompanies ISSHL has no known origin:

That would be tinnitus resulting from ssnhl. I believe they were talking about idiopathic tinnitus with no detectable hearing loss.

Though, it's good to know tinnitus often resolved when the hearing loss resolved.

 

[Bill Bauer]

Perhaps you are right. But recall how many of us here don't have any detectable hearing loss. It seems to me that we might have hearing loss that causes our T, but that it is not big enough of a loss to be detectable by current hearing tests. It is possible that when T comes out of the blue, that the person had experienced SSHL that only that person's brain can detect.

 

[Aschenherz]

That would be tinnitus resulting from ssnhl. I believe they were talking about idiopathic tinnitus with no detectable hearing loss.

Though, it's good to know tinnitus often resolved when the hearing loss resolved.

Your right, Alue.