I dont care what the researchers say! I know from my own experience what tinnitus is and how loud it can get. Please dont lecture me on tinnitus levels, you want to group mild, moderate, severe, catastrophic tinnitus together . There are different intensities of tinnitus as you can see, hek some people have mild tinnitus but more tones than I do. Listen to me very slowly, two of my friends have tinnitus and their T is nothing like mine is, absolutely nothing, they are shocked and even scared when I tell them what my T is like. Their T is mild and sounds like white noise and is very easily maskable, it dosent bother them unless they sit down and search for the sound. They were able to accomplish a lot in life and it dosent impact them as much, they can sleep without masking, read, watch tv, focus/concentrate. Mine is blasting all the time above peoples voices and the faucet running on maximum. Ask some users here what severe tinnitus is and what it can do. It is not perceived volume it is actual volume of the damn thing. T can INCREASE in actual volume, in perceived volume it can increase when stressed out, but here is where things get more interesting. I also was anxious and scared and had realllyyy bad stress when my T was mild, did I perceive the T as louder as a result? Nope. It didnt increase when I was stressed either, nor if I looked for it in my head, searched for it..it didnt go up, but that was in my case dont know about others.
If you still dont believe me when I had Mild T my tinnitus would spike to Moderate, it would cause distress I didnt perceive it to be louder, it was just louder when I would do stupid stuff like go to a mall or café or restaurant. As soon as three days passed it would subside down to a mild tinnitus which was again tolerable. I didnt perceive my T as being louder, it simply increased in volume, in actual volume that is.
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I am having a rough day because T has been somewhat louder then usual today, I woke up and it was louder from that moment and I struggle only because of the volume being raised, I have experienced this before: T being louder for a day and me struggling more on that day because of this......on my rare "good" T days where it lowers to mild-mild/moderate level, I can forget it and I hardly struggle at all......Ever. So obviously volume directly affects how I deal with it, and it hurts me when someone states that volume does not matter, because it makes it seems like my suffering is not warranted.
