Yeah @CrystalB. I've got high in my right and low in my left (an oversimplification but roughly accurate). Habituated to them both. Just do what you gotta do.
Hi Crystal, Habituation is absolutely possible as hard as it is to believe. Especially on the first onset which can feel very frightening . It took about 6-8 months. but my brain eventually started not to focus on it as a negative sound. It got to the point where I would go days, sometimes a week where I wouldn't notice it or if I did it was something that was just there with no negative emotion surrounded by it.
Well, spikes always make me feel that way @CrystalB. Take me right back to square one until they alleviate, or on the occasions where they're permanent, I get used to them.
About the hearing loss: none that can be detected on a standard audiogram, no. But I find it highly unlikely that anyone with noise induced tinnitus wouldn't have (hidden) hearing loss to some degree.
@Damocles If we think about it everyone has hearing loss, if our ear has a threshold of 0hz - 20khz everyone has high frequency hearing loss.
I think for us with tinnitus, if it's not something in the brain it's something messed up in our inner ear, nobody knows what.
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