How Can Tinnitus Become So Loud?

According to the Hearing Health Foundation, roughly 90% of tinnitus cases occur with an underlying hearing loss. And again, even if your audiogram is perfect, you could still suffer from hidden hearing loss.


Maybe, but almost anybody has hearing loss, when you're born you supposedly have a 20hz-20.000hz hearing range, which goes down when you age, though not everyone has T in their life and almost everyone has some sort of hearing loss or hidden hearing loss. Recently a friend said he always had t when he needed to do audiences as an 8 year musician, at that age he had very good hearing but he often had T's when he was stressed, and he's not the only one who observed this, other people have confirmed periods of T with sleep deprivation and times of intense stress.
My own personal observations says that it's more related to stress (or anxiety and worries) then anything else. I have always been almost hyper active my whole life and very stressed and worry easily. I manage to calm down one of my T's when I'm very relaxed, to a point I can't hear it anymore, mostly during night, but as soon as outside stressons, work or lack of sleep get in it rings harder, I initially thought that it was a physical problem, as I can stop this particular T when I put a finger in my ear, but I can confirm that when stress is down that T goes down. Now if I only could apply that to my 17 old high hissing T that would be great, but reading success stories here I'm confident that managing stress is the only way to a solution for myself, not just coping with it, but it may take some time, probably years.
The problem is that most people here are very skeptical to almost everything (including me, mind you but I'm getting away from it). We analyse too many things, when probably the solution is much easier then we initially can think of, I keep on reading the success stories, some very interesting info there. I still hope one day that they can regenerate hearing loss, but I needed a change my lifestyle anyway, so maybe T is the reason I will need to start to do it.
 
What? Everybody who is alive losses hearing slowly year by year, so it's literally impossible to have T without hearing loss, because everyboy has some degree of hearing loss.

The "T without hearing loss" is the biggest bullshit I have ever seen in the "T scene".

Yeah, and what about those with severe hearing loss without T ?

We all have hearing loss, I agree. But why some do have T ? Please read my other post, for me the culprit is not the hearing (or not he hearing alone!) but more stress, anxiety, worries, overactive brain, but anybody may have his own experiences with it, this is just mine.
 
We all have hearing loss, I agree. But why some do have T ? Please read my other post, for me the culprit is not the hearing (or not he hearing alone!) but more stress, anxiety, worries, overactive brain, but anybody may have his own experiences with it, this is just mine.

You said many people with tinnitus don't seem to have hearing loss - that's what people are disagreeing with. A survey on TinnitusTalk regarding causes of tinnitus cannot be seen as proving anything really. Many people say they're not sure what caused their tinnitus but that doesn't mean they don't suffer from some degree of hearing loss.

No one is saying that stress or anxiety don't play a role in developing tinnitus. There are people speculating that hearing loss coupled with a lot of stress can lead to tinnitus.

Tinnitus can begin much later than hearing loss, hearing loss can occur without tinnitus and tinnitus can occur with 'normal' hearing.
 
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You said many people with tinnitus don't seem to have hearing loss - that's what people are disagreeing with.

you are disagreeing with, not everyone seem to be of your opinion!

Listen again, EVERYONE has hearing loss, that's just it, the day you're 10 years old you already lost some feqs

If people can get rid of their T working on their stress levels that means that there's some hope to get rid of it, even if you have some sort of hearing loss.

Regarding the poll, actually very interesting the info from it imho, I'm a little tired of the whole hearing loss point, as we all have some sort of hearing loss or hidden hearing loss, no one can hear perfectly from 20hz to 20.000hz (or exception ?)

I compare Tinnitus with steam coming out of a kettle, but instead of steam it's tinnitus out of our brains, which means too much activity going on, I may be wrong, but that's how I feel about it.
 

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