MemberHi everyone 
I'm a 26-year-old man living in France. I apologize if i make some mistakes, English is not my native language.
I'm glad I found Tinnitus Talk, there are so many resources available which don't exist in French.
Where do I begin?
I've had tinnitus in 2012 when I was 19 years old, it started with an intrusive ringing in both ears which completely freaked me out. I consulted an ENT, had an audiogram and it was catastrophic: at only 19 years old I already had very high frequencies hearing loss for no apparent reasons as I had never used headphones or attended concerts/nightclubs. I had never exposed myself to loud noise. I also don't have a history of repeated ear infections.
I have attached my audiogram, the hearing loss seem to be fairly isometrically, I will have some questions later.
When the ENT told me that there was no cure and I had to deal with it, I felt miserable, I couldn't live with it the tinnitus was really high and intrusive, I could hear it over pretty much anything else.
The first year was very hard for me, it was difficult to concentrate in class, sleeping was also difficult. I failed some university exams and was eventually excluded.
However things got gradually better, I paid less and less attention to my tinnitus and I finally got back to a normal life the third year after my tinnitus had happened and I resumed my studies in an engineering school.
The last 3 years, I completely forgot I had tinnitus, I never thought about it, from morning to night I never heard it. It's hard to tell if my tinnitus was gone as I never tried to check if it was still there.
I forgot I had tinnitus until now. Last month, my tinnitus came back for no apparent reason. The only thing I can tell is that I was under a lot of stress this summer.
At first I thought it would go away, but it didn't, and now I'm still struggling with tinnitus. It seems to be as intrusive as it was 7 years ago.
I'm really scared since I'm in my last year of engineering school, I just have 4 months of courses left and I don't want to fail a second time. I don't know if my tinnitus is louder that it used to be, and I don't know if I will *habituate* again.
My questions:
-What type of hearing loss do I have?
-I also would like to know if tinnitus gets worse when hearing loss gets worse?
I'm a 26-year-old man living in France. I apologize if i make some mistakes, English is not my native language.
I'm glad I found Tinnitus Talk, there are so many resources available which don't exist in French.
Where do I begin?
I've had tinnitus in 2012 when I was 19 years old, it started with an intrusive ringing in both ears which completely freaked me out. I consulted an ENT, had an audiogram and it was catastrophic: at only 19 years old I already had very high frequencies hearing loss for no apparent reasons as I had never used headphones or attended concerts/nightclubs. I had never exposed myself to loud noise. I also don't have a history of repeated ear infections.
I have attached my audiogram, the hearing loss seem to be fairly isometrically, I will have some questions later.
When the ENT told me that there was no cure and I had to deal with it, I felt miserable, I couldn't live with it the tinnitus was really high and intrusive, I could hear it over pretty much anything else.
The first year was very hard for me, it was difficult to concentrate in class, sleeping was also difficult. I failed some university exams and was eventually excluded.
However things got gradually better, I paid less and less attention to my tinnitus and I finally got back to a normal life the third year after my tinnitus had happened and I resumed my studies in an engineering school.
The last 3 years, I completely forgot I had tinnitus, I never thought about it, from morning to night I never heard it. It's hard to tell if my tinnitus was gone as I never tried to check if it was still there.
I forgot I had tinnitus until now. Last month, my tinnitus came back for no apparent reason. The only thing I can tell is that I was under a lot of stress this summer.
At first I thought it would go away, but it didn't, and now I'm still struggling with tinnitus. It seems to be as intrusive as it was 7 years ago.
I'm really scared since I'm in my last year of engineering school, I just have 4 months of courses left and I don't want to fail a second time. I don't know if my tinnitus is louder that it used to be, and I don't know if I will *habituate* again.
My questions:
-What type of hearing loss do I have?
-I also would like to know if tinnitus gets worse when hearing loss gets worse?
