Poll: If Your Tinnitus Was Caused by Acoustic Trauma, Is It Maskable by White Noise?

If your tinnitus was caused by acoustic trauma, is it maskable by white noise?

  • Yes

    Votes: 9 28.1%
  • No, my tinnitus is louder than that.

    Votes: 10 31.3%
  • No, it loud enough to cover the tinnitus but I still hear the tinnitus through the white noise.

    Votes: 13 40.6%

  • Total voters
    32
When I had tinnitus at its worst the tinnitus would ride above the sound I was exposed to. So in bed at night it could be very low but in a supermarket with lots of people talking and background music I could hear tinnitus as a static hissing ringing noise with the other sounds.
 
I can sometimes mask it with white noise, but it needs to be pretty loud. My tinnitus is very similar to white noise and is more of a lower pitch. A fan is really the only thing that can almost completely mask it
 

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