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@Cityjohn Thanks for getting back to me. You seem more knowledgable about this subject than I do. Yes, my ideas about this were merely speculation based on studies/articles about the link between hearing loss and Alzheimer's...

Yes, I guess this inflammation can exist anywhere in the auditory system, which further increases the difficulty of proper diagnose and treatment. If we are indeed dealing with some kind of (chronic) inflammation, this might imply that treatments like VNS, ACRN, rTMS and similar techniques are...

Yes, it might also explain the increase of Tinnitus in some as time progresses. This might be caused by the chain reaction spreading to other cells causing further hyper-excitation of neurons. And who knows, maybe that in turn is linked to the development of Alzheimer's disease like I speculate...

Interesting thread. I also have been pondering that Tinnitus might in fact be some kind of chronic brain inflammation or a chronic inflammation of the auditory pathways. If you imagine that noise-exposure causes cell-death in various locations in the auditory system, and cell-death releases...