Is There Still Hope? Is My Tinnitus Considered Chronic?

[Annika1884]

I have had tinnitus for 2 months now and it's still going strong. Is there still a chance that it could GO?

Is my tinnitus considered chronic?

 

[Lebber]

2 months is not chronic. Some say its chronic after 6 months, others at 1 year or even 2 years. For now the best way is to accept its there (i know thats hard) and see what the future holds.

 

[reeax]

You **** might **** consider it chronic after 2 years ... And even later it could for sure go down. Remember that everybody is special (cause, recovery capacity, etc.) - it's pure medical BS to try making averages for 20 million people. So forget about others, and averages.

 

[jjflyman]

2 months is not enough time for it to be chronic. If it was noise caused T, you have a good chance the T will resolve itself. My first time with acoustic trauma T it took almost 2 years to fully fade. I am in a second noise induced T (concert) and it has faded 80-90% in 16 months.
So yeah, there is a good chance it will fade,but it will take a long time

 

[Bill Bauer]

Check out the thread below where I summarize everything (26 tips spread over five posts) I learned about managing tinnitus after reading the posts on this forum for the past 12 months
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...itus-recently-this-info-will-be-useful.25741/
The first tip there contains a link to a post with links to a number of studies that look at what fraction of T patients recover.

 

[Annika1884]

If the ringing has nearly been here 3 months is it less likely to go away?

 

[Localboy]

If the ringing has nearly been here 3 months is it less likely to go away?

The longer you have tinnitus, the less likely it is to go away. At 3 months there's a good chance you may be stuck with it for life but you can habituate to it and it won't make your life miserable.

 

[john paul]

There was a guy on here that had T and H and vertigo because of an alarm siren in his face for 10 minutes. It went away after 18 months. He was beside himself but it went away. I found his story while researching, it gave me great hope.