Tinnitus Talk Support Forum

I know someone who was skim boarding on vacation in Florida and fell pretty hard resulting in T. Same thing happened to him like 6 months later it went away out of no where.

@ErikaS That's so beautiful, lol. I hope that happens to you!

I tend to believe that people who get T from an obvious trauma like acoustic trauma, head injury etc have more chances of it going away completely, because it kinda heals (?). Meanwhile, us who get it from idiopathic or unknown reasons...

You never know it may happen to any of us out of the blue

@SarahMLFlemmer @Strawberryblonde I hope it happens for all of us some day, whether it's natural or with treatment !

So interesting @DimLeb , I have tended to think opposite but maybe because my "trauma" resulted with SSHL and that makes me feel like T would always be around in some way, but hopefully I'm wrong!

@ErikaS Yeah well, seeing yours being "ear infection", one would think that it would go away when the infection clears up. But no one is sure in case it leaves some hearing loss. Idiopathic causes in my mind means something about genetics, autoimmune, the vast variety of "hydrops" etc.

These cases of spontaneous resolution (and there are many) would indicate that some level of healing does take place. Nerves are VERY slow at healing. If you're healthy, younger, good diet, exercise and sleep well, these things will certainly not hinder healing.

Of course there is likely a bit of luck too. Some people are just better healers than others.

@ErikaS I myself am a musician with many sound exposures that never caused me HL or tinnitus. In fact, my hearing is normal up to 16k Hz (29 y.o.). But I generally have mild imbalance since ever and tinnitus started in the most quiet period of my life (no concerts etc). Also I get many fleeting T. So I suspect, for me it is something genetic (my mom also has T) or an atypical form of hydrops. Who knows.