Hearing Loss and Tinnitus or No Hearing Loss and Tinnitus?

Hello,
Please only answer if you had high frequency hearing test. I wonder how many people have tinnitus with no hearing loss and if those who have tinnitus do have hearing loss. If you had hearing test up to 8k only and your hearing is good but you have tinnitus do not answer the pool question.

 

I believe what you are asking is:

answer "Tinnitus with hearing loss" if HL > 25db for >8 kHz
answer "Tinnitus with no hearing loss" if HL <= 25db for 0 to 16 kHz

Do not answer if only a standard audiometric assessment was performed.

 

Everyone has hearing loss.

 

Not this member...

www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/dear-attheedgeofscience-i-need-your-valuable-opinion.7480

 

I guess I just don't wonder about this, because there's enough data to know that virtually everyone in their 30s and on has some degree of high frequency loss, most of those people do not have bothersome tinnitus, and people who do have bothersome tinnitus show predictable differences in brain anatomy.

There's a chicken and egg question there, but we won't have insight into it until there is a huge database of DNA data for people who do and don't have tinnitus. I would be happy to put my DNA into such a database.

 

The hearing loss does not have to be in high freqencies but high frequency audiogram was performed but probably if one has hearing loss in low freqencies high frequency would be also affected.

 

This is quite crazy. I wonder how old that member was when he developped T. He has the hearing of a toddler but he has to be an adult, who would prescribe Xanax to kids?

Perhaps these ''audiophiles'' people really do retain great hearing in their adult lives.

 

I had acquired profound loss in my right ear and severe to profound high frequency loss in my left when I was a small child. I never had tinnitus until my mid thirties when I had another drop in hearing.

Acquired hearing loss (up to profound deafness) does NOT always mean you will have tinnitus. Most likely there would at least be some. And measurable hearing loss is not required in order to have tinnitus.

 

Perhaps adult brains adapt far worse to sensory deficits then?

 

I had sudden hearing loss due to head injury with a skull fracture. Hearing loss in my L ear is severe in 12kHz and higher range. Moderate in 8kHz and 6kHz. Tinnitus and headache improves with hearing aid which boosts high frequency range.

 

I spoke to a 74 yr old guy today who is almost deaf but has never had Tinnitus

 

Just for the record:
I am 58 and have had T for just over a year and a half..
My hearing became very sensitive on the day i first got my T.
My hearing test confirmed that i could detect sound at the highest frequency tested.
I found it almost painful when hearing sirens, breaking glass etc.
The sensitivity seems to have reduced slowly over time but my hearing is still much better than before.

My Tinnitus is not related to ear damage but i believe is due to my cervical spine damage.
My T is a very high pitch which never stops but does vary slightly in intensity.
There is also a lower (but still relitively high) intermittent sound which i only notice when trying to sleep.
I used to take sleeping pills but have now managed to do without.

At first i found it really distressing and thought it unbearable, it still comes to my attention many times throuout the day but i have learned to be "Zen" about it...

Sad to hear about the Autifony trial being abandoned, i believe there was little hope anyway for those with well established T.

Thanks to all you folks that offer support and reasurance.

 

Its impossible to have normal hearing with T.
Take someone with normal hearing and without T make the hearing test and you will have some results.
Repeat then the same test with the same person but with a whisteling nearby, you won t have the same results. Its impossible. Hearing loss always coexist with tinnitus.
Hearing tests are sometimes not enough accurate to detect this.

 

Well, that kind of statement is debatable. Of course if your head is screaming it will be difficult to get acute results from a standard hearing test.

There are many people with hearing loss and no T and many people with T with no hearing loss.

 

I have hearing loss in the upper ranges, above 12KHZ which is where my tinnitus is. I had to go to a special audiologist to have this measured as most equipment only goes to 8kHZ.

 

Could I ask how you got T?

 

I think it was from medication.

 

Is this accepted as the general mechanism for hearing loss? I thought that the hair cells were destroyed, and that the tinnitus mechanism was generated by the lack of input, not by the constant input mechanism inferred here by K/NA interactions.

 

that is a outdated model, studies on apsirin preventing hair cells from performing failed to nullify tinnitus, a gentlemen on this forum had his audiotory nerve severed in a car accident and that caused tinnitus.