Johns Hopkins on Hyperacusis: Damage-Evoked Signals in Cochlear Neurons and Supporting Cells

[chinup]

My tinnitus causes pain. If it didn't, it would just be noise. It is pain the same way that fingernails on a blackboard are painful to hear.

Is that actual pain or a stress response to something that never stops?

My tinnitus torments me endlessly but it's not in the same realm as the pain I felt from noxacusis.

 

[Nick47]

It is pain the same way that fingernails on a blackboard are painful to hear.

To me that is uncomfortable to hear, but not painful.

 

[AfroSnowman]

Is that actual pain or a stress response to something that never stops?

My tinnitus torments me endlessly but it's not in the same realm as the pain I felt from noxacusis.

Pain. It took me about 3 years to stop constantly wincing; it definitely left some lines on my face. It is very much similar as when I had hyperacusis for the first couple of years after the onset, except that it never ends, so it is kind of different.