I have two tones. One is medium high and very faint mostly in my left ear. Theres another one that is like 16khz and higher that comes and goes and makes my brain feel like its being sliced with a light saber that sounds like a dog whistle. If I get good sleep it can be gone almost all day. I didnt sleep enough last night and its here today. When I wake up with it, it lasts all day. The sound that did it was from this phase effect on my 2×12 guitar combo amp and it has very high frequency characteristics that match the frequency of my T. This leads my to believe I did kill the hair cells associated with those frequencies and my brain is filling in the lost input with T at those frequencies. This shitz driving me crazy and I'm desperate to find a cure, hense my research efforts.
Don't know for sure but I think some deaf people have no tinnitus and some do. Removing the cochlea does not guarantee termination of T, I've googled this but found no definitive answers. Imagine being totally deaf with severe tinnitus, a situation I would never risk being in.
so you can't hear much above 4k? you have 85dbT and you don't believe hearing loss is associated with your tinnitus?
I first noticed tinnitus in my early twenties and wrote it off as benign like eyeball floaters. It got louder and pulsed with my heart when I jogged, again, no big deal. When I had vertigo, ENT told me I had hearing loss, I didn't really care, it was the vertigo causing me big problems. I did notice one day when I used my cell phone, I couldn't hear in one ear like the other. No big deal, use the other ear and/or use speaker phone always.
There's an older youtube video made after Rush received his implant. William Shattner curiously asked Rush about tinnitus, being a sufferer himself. Rush's answer wasn't too convincing that he had tinnitus. Shattner is a sufferer, Rush I'm not too sure about.
Aspects of mine come and go. I never get a full 12 hours of relief from the worst parts of it.
JohnAdams I seriously love you and I'm going to give you my legit response. I'm too am dying for a cure, no less. But I do not think I'd be able to find one without a full-fledged advanced research team, super equipment and a of course huge budget for efficacy trials and the like. As you well know the human body is massively complex and the potential for error is a direct offshoot of that. That (and the massive bureaucracy of course) is why effective medicines and cures are so expensive to develop.
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