Not Giving Up Yet, a Lot More Quiet Days

[Jason37]

I understand that having tinnitus for more than 6 months is not great for a chance that it is going away... but as believing that it can greatly reduces my anxiety and worry, I am not resigning the possibility and belief that it is going to fade away.

Today I woke up and it is hard to hear in a quiet room...only pulses of electrical "zaps" are audible. I must plug my ears and listen for a while to "bring out" a tone.

I still have an unhealthy obsession with it and I have contacted a behavioral therapist for a first appointment.

I know I am fortunate not to have it worse but I need to learn how to accept it I think.

I know this post isn't helpful for most people, but as I said before this is the only place where it seems I can get advice and opinions without eye rolling.

 

[Lost life]

do you have pulsatile tinnitus?

 

[Jason37]

acoustic trauma from gunshot....it is like a electrical pulse and a tone that comes out sometimes.

 

[Jason37]

I have had a lot of low tinnitus days this past month and today seems impossibly low...almost as good as silence. I only catch it when I stop and listen.

Unbelievable that 2 days ago I was on edge like no other. If It stayed like this all the time I would be happy.

 

[Bill Bauer]

"Six months" is just a time interval that insurance companies use to classify a condition as being chronic. It has no medical basis.

Multiple sources seem to use "2 years" as their rule of thumb. See, for example
https://www.ncrar.research.va.gov/Education/Documents/TinnitusDocuments/01_HenryPTM-HB_1-10.pdf
"A general guideline is that tinnitus of at least 12 months duration has a high likelihood of being a permanent condition (Dobie, 2004b). However, it also has been suggested that a person must have experienced tinnitus for at least two years before it should be considered permanent (Vernon, 1996)."
Link to Dobie 2004: https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en...AfBTNxz1AY#v=onepage&q=dobie tinnitus&f=false

If your T keeps fading but is still audible 2 years after onset, there is no reason to think that it will stop fading after 2 years.
It will most likely continue fading. A number of members of this forum had stated that the first time they got tinnitus, they eventually got to hear silence after 12-18 months. This is evidence contradicting the statement above from that Dobbie 2004 study.

If It stayed like this all the time I would be happy.

Even if your T gets louder, you have every reason to believe that eventually you are going to be fine.

 

[JoyBenz007]

Don't believe what they say, I believe that your tinnitus can go away after 1-2 years

 

[Jason37]

Me too...to many success stories of it happening not to believe it...especially from some of these vets who had a few years after all kinds of noise.