I think that the loudness of the t is related to the number of neurons disconnected and excited and looking for the inner hair cells. My grand father was really deaf but didn’t t have tinnitus because his hearing loss was very gradual and he became deaf at 70 he didn’t have many auditory neurons left maybe, they maybe pretty much died at the same time than than his hair cells.
on the contrary there are a lot of young people with loud t and minimal hearing loss, they got this from a shock usually (acoustic or ototoxic) and I suppose that as they are young their neurons are very healthy and actively looking for the hair cells but those have been destroyed. It is of course an hypothesis but that s what would make sense to me to explain why some deaf people don t get t.
Interesting idea. In fact the age related hearing loss seems like a normal process to me but of course every shock to your body no matter what or where or at what age could bring you in a new (unwanted) health situation - like a stroke etc. after my hearing loss I had around one month no Tinnitus ... I really dont know!
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