For three months following onset my tinnitus was at suicidal level. Multiple tones, very loud, unmaskable. Now, ten months after onset, most of the time I have silence or can barely hear it during the day. It's a bit louder at night but remains mild. I'm not cured as my ears still remain unstable and T is still here, but I believe I'm steadily getting better...
@Freerunner That depends on what we mean by "recovery". You can definitely improve. The tones could become fewer, and the volume can decrease, but total remission of tinnitus, to complete silence, is much more unlikely, in my opinion.
No it doesn’t mean you won’t recover. People get tones out of nowhere even without a noise event or new meds. Once you have severe T it’s very unstable, and tones can come and go
Thanks for the encouragement @Ondine ! Did you have hyperacusis? Did your tinnitus spike after moderate/low noise exposure? Did the tones go away or they subsided in volume?
@Stacken77 , @Wrfortiscue , I am 99 percent sure mine will not go away but I am starting to loose hope it will subside a bit either. H is kicking me really bad today, all sounds are irritating. I had two hour train ride with plugs and noise cancelling headphones on top. This is the only thing that might have triggered it. Although I have done this many times without H issues
At this point, I truly doubt there is some tinnitus out there that is strictly and cleanly one exact tone and nothing else. Most probably those who don't have it believe tinnitus is such a simple thing (one clean tone). It can be, but multi-tonal tinnitus doesn't affect your chances of getting better. It's just random it seems.
@Wrfortiscue Yeah true, it can get better both objectively (volume, intrusiveness etc) and subjectively (habituation). The 2-3 mild-moderate tones I initially developed, disappeared after a few months and they were replaced by other less intrusive milder ones. The damn thing is unpredictable as fuck, but time most likely works in favour of us...
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