Hi everyone, Genevieve here, I have a question I'd like to ask. As I said in my introduction story I had a car accident 3 months ago with airbag deployment. I didn't know before my car accident that airbag could be so dangerous for the hearing. It was a brand new car (4 months), and if I had known back then that airbag could damaged your inner ear, I think I wouldn't have dared to drive this car 
Before that, I had always driven old cars with no airbag and I didn't have any single problems/accident! It had to be a new car for I know the joys of the airbag 
The thing is (and this is my question in fact), my Tinnitus started 6 days after the accident with a very low ringing at the beginning which intensified in the following weeks. I had well " the emergency treatment" which is given in case of noise trauma, but this treatment was given to me very late (2 weeks after my accident). During my treatment (which lasted 2 weeks), my tinnitus was gone 3 times in 15 days, ( the third day, the 5th day, and the 7th day during the treatment), but each time it was a couple of hours, and each time when it happened, I was reassured either by my husband or by an ENT telling me not to worry too much that my hearing loss was low (5db right ear and 10db left) and that my T would not be permanent. So I am just wondering if it's the treatment that did something on me ( according to my man it's not the treatment) or it's the reassurance that I would be OK and would heal, any thoughts/suggestions about it? 
Before that, I had always driven old cars with no airbag and I didn't have any single problems/accident! It had to be a new car for I know the joys of the airbag The thing is (and this is my question in fact), my Tinnitus started 6 days after the accident with a very low ringing at the beginning which intensified in the following weeks. I had well " the emergency treatment" which is given in case of noise trauma, but this treatment was given to me very late (2 weeks after my accident). During my treatment (which lasted 2 weeks), my tinnitus was gone 3 times in 15 days, ( the third day, the 5th day, and the 7th day during the treatment), but each time it was a couple of hours, and each time when it happened, I was reassured either by my husband or by an ENT telling me not to worry too much that my hearing loss was low (5db right ear and 10db left) and that my T would not be permanent. So I am just wondering if it's the treatment that did something on me ( according to my man it's not the treatment) or it's the reassurance that I would be OK and would heal, any thoughts/suggestions about it? 
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So what you are saying to me it's even if I had been treated within 24/48h it would have changed nothing regarding the hair cells? I always thought that with the emergency treatment we could recover some part of hearing loss and therefore avoid the onset oh tinnitus. I read that in a french documention from Rouen about french soldiers who recovered some of their hearing loss. Some of them had lost more than 70db and after 2 days of intensive had recovered 50 to 70% of their hearing loss. The most affected have kept their Tinnitus, the others had only temporary tinnitus, (my dream), 
and it reminds me my own accident 
Next friday our airbags will be for good removed from our car, but frankly if I had known that about the airbags that it could damaged your inner ear and give you the evil T, I wouldn't have dared to drive our brand new car! 
My mood was very low today and your story really cheer me up! I know that whiplash can give you also Tinnitus, ( my neighbour had multiple whiplash), Did she tell you what kind of treatment she had back then? 
