Does Tinnitus Usually Go Away?

Potter

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Hey everyone

So I've had tinnitus for about 13 days.

Regardless on my condition, I just wanted to know if tinnitus usually goes away for the world population.

I'm not talking about people in this forum. I'm talking in general, if someone gets tinnitus...does the tinnitus usually go away? If so, whats the usual time frame? Months? Years?

Are there any statistics? I asked a few people in real life, they said they had it and it went away after some months/years.

So yeah, since I'm new to this, just wanted to know what the norm is. Thanks!
 
So I've had tinnitus for about 13 days.

One of the most important things to know is what caused the tinnitus? Exposure to loud noise is the most common cause. Have you been listening to music through headphones or going to places where loud music is played: clubs, concerts even the cinema? Many things can cause tinnitus so it depends on that which will give an indication whether it will go away. Many people naturally habituate to tinnitus within the first 6months to a year. Please click on the links below and read my posts on tinnitus.

Michael


https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/tinnitus-a-personal-view.18668/

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/hyperacusis-as-i-see-it.19174/
 
One of the most important things to know is what caused the tinnitus? Exposure to loud noise is the most common cause of it. Have you been listening to music through headphones or going to places where loud music is played: clubs, concerts even the cinema? Many things can cause tinnitus so it depends what caused yours will give an idea if it will go away. Many people naturally habituate to tinnitus within the first 6months to a year. Please click on the links below and read my posts on tinnitus.

Michael


https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/tinnitus-a-personal-view.18668/

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/hyperacusis-as-i-see-it.19174/

It's hard for me to know what caused mine. I''ve had TMJ problems since last May, been listening to LOUD music daily for past 6 years, A LOT of ear wax (using olive oil currently) and it also started when I was extremely stressed and depressed. Also, I have terrible posture and my neck and jaw muscles ache all the time.

thoughts?

I've been out since I had T. Been to the mall, out shopping, loud restuarants...had no effect on my T. Hasnt made it worse. matter of fact, i cant even hear it when im out, unless i concentrate on it. Only hear it at home.
 
TMJ can cause tinnitus and if you have been listening to loud music especially through headphones it could be a combination of the two. I advise you to stop using headphones and get seen at ENT and a dentist to look at your jaw. Read my articles as they explain about tinnitus and treatment. Try not to sleep in a quiet room, more about this is explained in the articles.

Best of luck.
Remember, I advise no listening to music through headphones even at low volume. Give your ears a rest for a couple of months.
Michael
 
TMJ can cause tinnitus and if you have been listening to loud music especially through headphones it could be a combination of the two. I advise you to stop using headphones and get seen at ENT and a dentist to look at your jaw. Read my articles as they explain about tinnitus and treatment. Try not to sleep in a quiet room, more about this is explained in the articles.

Best of luck.
Remember, I advise no listening to music through headphones even at low volume.
Michael

thanks! What DB limit should i keep my music to from speakers?
 
thanks! What DB limit should i keep my music too from speakers?

I do not pay much attention to decibels, although anything above 80DB is starting to get loud and considered the beginning of hearing damage if listened to for long periods. Since your tinnitus is low (as you say) it will most probably go away or you will naturally habituate to it in time and you'll hardly notice it. However, it could become a lot louder and permanent if it was originally caused by Headphone use or listening to loud music through speakers or at a clubs etc. It all depends what is causing it. In any case I advise you to listen to music at sensible levels. You can return to headphone use but I would leave off them for a couple of months at least. When you resume keep the volume as low as possible.

Michael
 
I do not pay much attention to decibels, although anything above 80DB is starting to get loud and considered the beginning of hearing damage if listened to for long periods. Since your tinnitus is low (as you say) it will most probably go away or you will naturally habituate to it in time and you'll hardly notice it. However, it could become a lot louder and permanent if it was originally caused by Headphone use or listening to loud music through speakers or at a clubs etc. It all depends what is causing it. In any case I advise you to listen to music at sensible levels. You can return to headphone use but I would leave off them for a couple of months at least. When you resume keep the volume as low as possible.

Michael

so around 80DB MAX? after coming home from Uni, i like to play music around the apartment whilst working and cooking. is 80db Maxiumum ok?
 
so around 80DB MAX? after coming home from Uni, i like to play music around the apartment whilst working and cooking. is 80db Maxiumum ok?

Theoretically 80db should be ok but I advise you not to listen at this level as there is really no need. All you are doing is annoying neighbours and not giving your ears a chance to have a rest. Please read my articles as it will answer a lot of your questions. If you want your tinnitus to go away playing loud music is not the way to achieve it.

Michael
 
It can. Tinnitus is considered "permanent" after 6-12 months. Even if you have had your T for over a year you can still wake up one day with it being totally gone. Don't panic, don't get anxious over it and do not firmly believe it will go away so you avoid getting disappointed.
 
Tinnitus is considered "permanent" after 6-12 months.
https://www.ncrar.research.va.gov/Education/Documents/TinnitusDocuments/01_HenryPTM-HB_1-10.pdf
"A general guideline is that tinnitus of at least 12 months duration has a high likelihood of being a permanent condition (Dobie, 2004b). However, it also has been suggested that a person must have experienced tinnitus for at least two years before it should be considered permanent (Vernon, 1996)."
Link to Dobie 2004: https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=BqEq9Re3L5UC&oi=fnd&pg=PA266&dq=dobie+tinnitus+&ots=ekhmg_9Bdk&sig=lmay3bQPRsRcc-GypAfBTNxz1AY#v=onepage&q=dobie tinnitus&f=false

I remember seeing many more sources mentioning "2 years", but I don't have time to find all of them.

Here is an ENT who uses 30-months instead of 24-months.
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...it-comes-back-anybody-else.22556/#post-260876

On this forum, one member had T go silent after 18 months.
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/new-tinnitus-sufferer.21913/page-2#post-253700
 
@Potter I believe my ear ringing is due to TMJ, stiff face, jaw, neck muscles that got that way bc of stress/anxiety. I'm currently aggressively treating my TMJ in hopes that it will get rid of the ear ringing. My doctors have estimated that it should go away within 3-6 months. It's been a month now. I've seen improvement but it hasn't been totally consistent. There are moments in the morning or during the day it's gone but comes back. It's not super loud, any noise masks mine pretty easily. I hear it mostly at night in bed if my room gets too quiet, or in the car with the doors closed and engine turned off.

I don't listen to loud music, have no hearing loss, no dizziness, reaction to noise, etc. So I'm pretty confident it's due to my TMJ, i've been complaining about my horrible TMJ pain and ear pain for 2 years and got shitty treatments from other doctors, so I think the lack of treating that led to this.

Anyways- hopefully treating your TMJ, and sore/stuff neck&face muscles will help you
 
You have to balance all the possible reason tinnitus can become louder due to some physical problem, with the way your brain works in perceiving tinnitus.

Everyone over the age of 25 has tinnitus, the vast majority of them are unaware of it because their brain filters it out. If you become anxious you might go through a period of clenching/muscle tension etc. that raises your baseline tinnitus (that you've had probably for years) to a level that first caught your attention, and then you anxiety took over and told your brain not to filter that sound anymore but instead of to amplify it and put it front and centre of your attention.

Step 1, rule out any significant physical pathology in your ear - easy to do, just see an ENT, they might not be well versed in the psychological side of tinnitus but they are extremely well versed in knowing when it is/isn't due to a disease and in the vast majority of cases it isn't

Step 2, identify the common benign things that may have made your tinnitus worse lately. This could be anything from allergies/flu with eustachian tube issues, to muscle/jaw issues (ranging from bad posture and muscle spasms up to actual TMJD etc.) and work on those things - they are all treatable

Step 3, accept that regardless of how much of the above you do, your tinnitus will not "go away" until you work on the brain/mind side of things. When they say they cannot cure tinnitus, just get used to it, they forget the important bit that they (the doctor) also has tinnitus unless he/she happens to be about 15 years old, and that you likely had tinnitus before you noticed it - your doctor is "used to it" and you were "used to it", the problem is you're not used to it anymore, and the challenge is to get back to the point where you were

Judging by the number of people who at some point complain to tinnitus at some point in their life, compared to the number of people who complain to permanent intrusive tinnitus for years of their life, and subtracting people wth significant pathologies that cause tinnitus that must be much harder to habituate to - you're left with a massive discrepancy.

In other words, the vast majority of people who exist and who will ever exist will experience a period of annoying tinnitus that resolves, but it resolves not because they were super successful at stage 2, but because they allowed themselves to get to stage 3 very quickly.

When my tinnitus appeared it was likely fleeting tinnitus, worsened a bit by all the stress and anxiety and daily headaches and clenching I had been doing. No actual pathology of my ears was found and I was told that muscle/jaw tension was the most likely cause.

I then became obsessive trying to "get rid" of the tinnitus physically, and in the process became more and more anxious, more and more stressed and analysed the tinnitus more and more closely each day. I got the point where I was totally burnt out.

Eventually I spoke to a couple of specialists in vestibular-cochlear medicine and tinnitus, one a doctor and the other an audiologist, and they explained that this psychological element of tinnitus in people with no disease and no hearing loss is totally neglected by most doctors who are unaware of it, and so for people who are particularly anxious they tend to suffer for a long time and not habituate.

Don't fall into that trap like I did.

Now I am at the point where I am not aware of my tinnitus in a silent room but it is triggered by noise of a high pitch like showers or cars, and it's not even consistent in the way it reacts, sometimes it will a lot, sometimes a bit, sometimes not at all - mainly depending on how distracted I am and my mental state.

In other words what could have been about a day of a bit of ear ringing has turned into almost a month, the first half of which I had a complete emotional burnout and the second half a gradual recovery but still a gradual process of habituating and telling my brain it's ok to ignore these sounds again. Each day is somewhat better than the last but it's easy to have one great day and then the moment you hear tinnitus the next day you think all the progress was in your head or you're getting worse and then you have a big drop - I find that up and down cycle hard to avoid because I am an impatient person.

So please, if you have done step 1 and been reassured, yes do the things advised in step 2, but most of all stop thinking about it, stop stressing about it, control your anxiety and there is no reason to think that in a couple of days/weeks/months this experience won't be a distant memory.

But remember the lessons you learn from this. Anxiety can manifest in many ways. It doesn't cause tinnitus because tinnitus is normal in everyone, but it does make it a problem when it wasn't before. It can also cause issues with your bowels, muscle twitches, light headedness etc. etc. so don't be like me and let yourself go through a few weeks of extreme stress thinking you're dying or developing some terrible illness, recognise when your stress levels are too high and recognise when they are causing physical symptoms and break that cycle because the longer it goes on, the longer it takes to unwind.

Good luck and feel free to message me.
 
Everyone over the age of 25 has tinnitus,
I was with you until you said this.

I didn't have T before the concert unless I ran a few miles from a workout or had very high stress. The only other time that I would have it was fleeting T that I still get from time to time.
 
The longer you've had it, the less likely it is to go away. I remember when I first got tinnitus, I came here and obsessed about the likelihood of it going away. It never did. :(

I don't know if obsessing about it did any harm, but it didn't do me any good.
 
So you were with him until basically the beginning of his comment?
Yes. Those first two sentences (technically a run on sentence) were probably the best thing I've ever read... Then, well, I saw that statement and things got mucked up. :D

I'm glad somebody noticed that, I laughed pretty hard!
 
I was with you until you said this.

I didn't have T before the concert unless I ran a few miles from a workout or had very high stress. The only other time that I would have it was fleeting T that I still get from time to time.

Above the age of 25 we know for sure that everyone has some degree of hearing loss as a result of damage to hair cells in the cochlear even without exposure to excessive sound, thereby producing tinnitus, and in reality the process probably it begins far younger.

Put someone who never once complained to anyone about tinnitus into a sound proof booth and ask them to listen for any sound at all and eventually they will perceive something, usually a high pitch hiss.

We have to separate two very different things: tinnitus, and being aware/affected by tinnitus. The existence of tinnitus is a normal part of human existence, being aware of it and being distressed and affected by it (as all of us here are), is not.

If anything seriously contributes to that tinnitus, like exposure to loud noise or certainly any disease of the inner or middle ear, then yes that baseline tinnitus may well be raised above the threshold that our brains are used to filtering it out. In some cases it may well be to the extent that it's totally unreasonable to expect the brain to go back to filtering it out, and no doubt acoustic trauma can do that.

What I'm saying is that there is a subset of people with intrusive tinnitus in whom the physical cause for that worsening tinnitus has actually resolved but who continue to perceive even their baseline level of tinnitus despite it having resolved to the level it was before. That's because the brain has rewired to perceive the tinnitus as a threat, something that should not be filtered but rather should be carefully monitored.

These people need to be aware of that, otherwise they will forever be seeking a physical cure and forever be monitoring their tinnitus, both of which will actually prevent their tinnitus from resolving compared to those people who have an episode of tinnitus and shrug it off, forget about it, and a few minutes/hours/days later realise it's gone.

I just don't want those people to go through what I have put myself through. Looking back I don't know how long my "fleeting T" actually lasted, it was obviously a bit longer than the few seconds that everyone is used to from time to time, but I was 1) already stressed about life stuff and 2) I have a severe health anxiety issue meaning I totally freak the fuck out about basically any unusual symptom I get.

Within seconds of noticing the tinnitus I was asking myself "oh my god, what if this never goes". I was having an urgent audiogram within about 2 hours and was sitting in front of the GP literally in tears about 3 hours after that, on the same day...

You don't subject your brain to levels of anxiety like that and not expect it to adapt, and now I have no awareness of my tinnitus in the quiet or when distracted or when around most noise, but around continuous high pitch sounds like the shower or typing or the car it will gradually wind itself back up and be back again. All because I lost my shit and told my brain that tinnitus is a major threat to my life, so my brain naturally wired itself to be super aware of it.

I don't want people to put themselves through that. I am sure for people in my situation with the all clear from ENT and a normal audiogram will be doing themselves a huge favour by skipping the nervous breakdown bit and just crack on with calming down, distracting yourself, using some TRT techniques and before they know it they will be like the probable countless other people out there who had a brief episode of tinnitus that passed because they didn't worry too much about it.
 
Put someone who never once complained to anyone about tinnitus into a sound proof booth and ask them to listen for any sound at all and eventually they will perceive something, usually a high pitch hiss.
Before my acoustic trauma, I would spend every night in my super-quiet room, wearing earplugs, actively listening for sounds and not hearing anything. I used to love the sound of complete silence.

I doubt I would hear anything in that soundproof chamber, but even if I did, it would not change the fact that I couldn't hear anything as I went about my life. This means that for all intents and purposes I didn't have T (and I was in my 40s when I had my acoustic trauma). Neither do people who heard that high pitch sound for the first time in their lives in that soundproof chamber...
 
Before my acoustic trauma, I would spend every night in my super-quiet room, wearing earplugs, actively listening for sounds and not hearing anything. I used to love the sound of complete silence.

I doubt I would hear anything in that soundproof chamber, but even if I did, it would not change the fact that I couldn't hear anything as I went about my life. This means that for all intents and purposes I didn't have T (and I was in my 40s when I had my acoustic trauma). Neither do people who heard that high pitch sound for the first time in their lives in that soundproof chamber...

All I can say is that you must have had extremely good filtering in the part of your brain that processes sound because no sensory organ is perfect including the cochlear and "noise" is always generated as part of the signal that goes to your brain. That can in most people with normal hearing be perceived as tinnitus if they try hard enough, if you couldn't even when trying then that's interesting but it doesn't change the fact that physiologically we are all technically capable of perceiving tinnitus above at least the age of 25.

When that becomes intrusive tinnitus it's obviously a different story and I'm not trying to tell you that your acoustic trauma wasn't relevant and that it's all about anxiety in your case etc. but there does seem to be a large minority of people with intrusive tinnitus that don't have any history acoustic trauma, no ear disease, normal audiometry but still perceive their tinnitus as a problem.

In those people there's everyone reason to think that the way we think and react to our tinnitus is not just part of the problem, but the problem itself. We often have a history of anxiety or depression and often that was an issue at the time this tinnitus became a problem. I seem to be in that category, I don't want to preach about what I don't know to those of you who have a clear cause for your tinnitus but for those that don't and who fit the above criteria it's really important that we control our minds and emotions because they are the key to getting better.

I have had a number of CNS related somatic syndromes of anxiety. A good similar example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benign_fasciculation_syndrome, I caused it by noticing a normal muscle twitch one day and deciding to freak out about it, causing it to spread throughout my body and last weeks. I beat it when I stopped thinking it was multiple sclerosis or motor neurone disease etc., stopped trying to find a "cure" and just focused on getting my head right and not focusing on the twitches.

I'm trying to apply the same now but I have to admit with tinnitus it's much harder to keep the mind calm and stay distracted, and it seems that there are specific things (TRT techniques) that may actually be necessary to progress.
 
Above the age of 25 we know for sure that everyone has some degree of hearing loss as a result of damage to hair cells in the cochlear even without exposure to excessive sound, thereby producing tinnitus, and in reality the process probably it begins far younger.

Hearing loss /= tinnitus. There are people with severe hearing loss that have no tinnitus (I know a few) and then there are people with no detectable hearing loss that have loud tinnitus.


Put someone who never once complained to anyone about tinnitus into a sound proof booth and ask them to listen for any sound at all and eventually they will perceive something, usually a high pitch hiss.

We have to separate two very different things: tinnitus, and being aware/affected by tinnitus. The existence of tinnitus is a normal part of human existence, being aware of it and being distressed and affected by it (as all of us here are), is not.

If anything seriously contributes to that tinnitus, like exposure to loud noise or certainly any disease of the inner or middle ear, then yes that baseline tinnitus may well be raised above the threshold that our brains are used to filtering it out. In some cases it may well be to the extent that it's totally unreasonable to expect the brain to go back to filtering it out, and no doubt acoustic trauma can do that.

What I'm saying is that there is a subset of people with intrusive tinnitus in whom the physical cause for that worsening tinnitus has actually resolved but who continue to perceive even their baseline level of tinnitus despite it having resolved to the level it was before. That's because the brain has rewired to perceive the tinnitus as a threat, something that should not be filtered but rather should be carefully monitored.

I'm not sure what you mean by the physical cause being resolved. Hearing loss does not regenerate. You can have damaged hair cells, or damaged nerve connections to those hair cells.

What you are referring to is maladaptive neuroplasticity, which is most likely the case with chronic tinnitus. I'm not sure how much monitoring it affects this. Furthermore, I'm not sure how quickly these neuroplastic changes takes place, that would be a good question for a neurologist or neroutologist, but from my understanding it can happen fairly quickly. Sure, if you have tinnitus you can only hear in a silent room, it may well go away in time when you stop paying attention to it, but I wouldn't consider that intrusive tinnitus.

These people need to be aware of that, otherwise they will forever be seeking a physical cure and forever be monitoring their tinnitus, both of which will actually prevent their tinnitus from resolving compared to those people who have an episode of tinnitus and shrug it off, forget about it, and a few minutes/hours/days later realise it's gone.

What evidence do you have that ignoring it will make it go away?


I just don't want those people to go through what I have put myself through. Looking back I don't know how long my "fleeting T" actually lasted, it was obviously a bit longer than the few seconds that everyone is used to from time to time, but I was 1) already stressed about life stuff and 2) I have a severe health anxiety issue meaning I totally freak the fuck out about basically any unusual symptom I get.

Within seconds of noticing the tinnitus I was asking myself "oh my god, what if this never goes". I was having an urgent audiogram within about 2 hours and was sitting in front of the GP literally in tears about 3 hours after that, on the same day...

You don't subject your brain to levels of anxiety like that and not expect it to adapt, and now I have no awareness of my tinnitus in the quiet or when distracted or when around most noise, but around continuous high pitch sounds like the shower or typing or the car it will gradually wind itself back up and be back again. All because I lost my shit and told my brain that tinnitus is a major threat to my life, so my brain naturally wired itself to be super aware of it.

I don't want people to put themselves through that. I am sure for people in my situation with the all clear from ENT and a normal audiogram will be doing themselves a huge favour by skipping the nervous breakdown bit and just crack on with calming down, distracting yourself, using some TRT techniques and before they know it they will be like the probable countless other people out there who had a brief episode of tinnitus that passed because they didn't worry too much about it.

Well consider yourself lucky, some of us aren't so lucky. Many people get temporary tinnitus that goes away in weeks, others get it for life. From what I've read and heard, most of it seems to come down to luck of the draw and has very little to do with them worrying about it or not worrying about it. I mean no disrespect, but your experience is not the same as everyone else's.
 
What you are referring to is maladaptive neuroplasticity, which is most likely the case with chronic tinnitus. I'm not sure how much monitoring it affects this. Furthermore, I'm not sure how quickly these neuroplastic changes takes place, that would be a good question for a neurologist or neroutologist, but from my understanding it can happen fairly quickly. Sure, if you have tinnitus you can only hear in a silent room, it may well go away in time when you stop paying attention to it, but I wouldn't consider that intrusive tinnitus.

Generally speaking neuroplasticity can occur both quickly and slowly and there is no real reason it shouldn't be reversible even when engrained for long periods of time, at least in adults, although I suppose nobody could predict for an individual how long that might takes as it's so incredibly complex. But if it's regarding something that is heavily mediated by the limbic system (as idiopathic tinnitus is thought to be according to current science) then one of the factors in how long reversal takes, and whether or not it occurs at all, is going to be how we think about it, how we emotionally react to it and how we allow our behaviour to be changed by it.

Like you say my experience is not the same as everyone else's but in general terms this should apply to people who have tinnitus without a clear cause, normal hearing and who are at high risk for psychosomatic disorders, in the same way that it applies to psychosomatic disorders that are better understood eg. IBS, BFS.

I don't want to tell people who have otosclerosis that all they need to do is chill out and do some TRT and they should be fine, but I basically want to tell people whose story is like mine (idiopathic tinnitus after investigations and consults with specialists, normal audiogram but a history of anxiety and psychosomatic issues) that this is another case where anxiety not only makes things worse but prevents recovery.
 
No, it does not "usually" go away. This forum is evident of that. Only very few people on here have reported that their tinnitus has gone away. Not to say that it can not go away, it can, but I would not bet on it.

What it does "usually" do, at least for the majority of people, is get better in time, either in actual volume/pitch or in terms of perception. When I first got T it was right "in my face" perception wise, but now after 5 months it has moved a little further back in my perception and the volume has overall decreased a little bit.
 
Generally speaking neuroplasticity can occur both quickly and slowly and there is no real reason it shouldn't be reversible even when engrained for long periods of time, at least in adults, although I suppose nobody could predict for an individual how long that might takes as it's so incredibly complex. But if it's regarding something that is heavily mediated by the limbic system (as idiopathic tinnitus is thought to be according to current science) then one of the factors in how long reversal takes, and whether or not it occurs at all, is going to be how we think about it, how we emotionally react to it and how we allow our behaviour to be changed by it.

Like you say my experience is not the same as everyone else's but in general terms this should apply to people who have tinnitus without a clear cause, normal hearing and who are at high risk for psychosomatic disorders, in the same way that it applies to psychosomatic disorders that are better understood eg. IBS, BFS.

I don't want to tell people who have otosclerosis that all they need to do is chill out and do some TRT and they should be fine, but I basically want to tell people whose story is like mine (idiopathic tinnitus after investigations and consults with specialists, normal audiogram but a history of anxiety and psychosomatic issues) that this is another case where anxiety not only makes things worse but prevents recovery.

I understand. You aren't the first person here that has had anxiety based tinnitus that has come to the same conclusion, but it just feels like a slap in the face to people with severe tinnitus to just tell them to not think about it and it will go away. If that were true tinnitus wouldn't exist for people that are 100% habituated, but most that are just don't react to it and are not bothered by it, but it is still there and barring some miracle cure it will be there till the day they die.
 
So when is it?
https://www.ncrar.research.va.gov/Education/Documents/TinnitusDocuments/01_HenryPTM-HB_1-10.pdf
"A general guideline is that tinnitus of at least 12 months duration has a high likelihood of being a permanent condition (Dobie, 2004b). However, it also has been suggested that a person must have experienced tinnitus for at least two years before it should be considered permanent (Vernon, 1996)."
Link to Dobie 2004: https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=BqEq9Re3L5UC&oi=fnd&pg=PA266&dq=dobie+tinnitus+&ots=ekhmg_9Bdk&sig=lmay3bQPRsRcc-GypAfBTNxz1AY#v=onepage&q=dobie tinnitus&f=false

I remember seeing many more sources mentioning "2 years", but I don't have time to find all of them.

Here is an ENT who uses 30-months instead of 24-months.
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...it-comes-back-anybody-else.22556/#post-260876
 
What you are referring to is maladaptive neuroplasticity, which is most likely the case with chronic tinnitus.
It's my understanding that maladaptive neuroplasticity from amputees results from the brain failing to remap neurons associated with the lost body part, so how would someone get tinnitus from acoustic trauma if their hearing is perfect? I'm inclined to think nerve damage is the reason.
 

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