Some Hope? Can Tinnitus Go Away After a Long Time? How Long?

[Striveon]

I want some support... some hope what is longest a person had tinnitus that it then went away that you may know or have read of?? How many months??

 

[robHing]

Hi... Welcome ...
It is hard to answer your question.
You may search the site by the word "success" to find out.

 

[Bill Bauer]

I want some support... some hope what is longest a person had tinnitus that it then went away that you may know or have read of?? How many months??

At least 24 months.

Multiple sources seem to use "2 years" as their rule of thumb. See, for example
https://www.ncrar.research.va.gov/Education/Documents/TinnitusDocuments/01_HenryPTM-HB_1-10.pdf
"A general guideline is that tinnitus of at least 12 months duration has a high likelihood of being a permanent condition (Dobie, 2004b). However, it also has been suggested that a person must have experienced tinnitus for at least two years before it should be considered permanent (Vernon, 1996)."

If your T keeps fading but is still audible 2 years after onset, there is no reason to think that it will stop fading after 2 years.
It will most likely continue fading.

For more information, you might want to examine the studies linked to in the thread below. Those links are located on most pages of that thread, not just in the first post:
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/spontaneous-recovery-stats-over-70-recover-3-studies.21441/

 

[Agrajag364]

I want some support... some hope what is longest a person had tinnitus that it then went away that you may know or have read of?? How many months??

Four years was one story in the success stories section lately. There is no indication of how rare this is, scientific studies acknowledge the uncertainty of this.

 

[Jemina]

How many months??

Wondering the same... Really need some support, woke up with the worst T ever and I really can't deal with this this has to go away! It's been almost 10 weeks... Will this nightmare end??

 

[Striveon]

Wondering the same... Really need some support, woke up with the worst T ever and I really can't deal with this this has to go away! It's been almost 10 weeks... Will this nightmare end??

I HOPE it lowers, give it some time I know how hard and depressing tinnitus is but there is hope that tinnitus will lower or that your brain will acustom :/ I hate this but hang in there, TRY to distract your mind by doing somwthing productive, trust me, since im depressed right now, i dont feel like doing anything anymore but a little steo at a time goes long ways i hope you feel better medntally and physically, we will get through this, i know we will, there are hopes, read success stories, hopefully those give you hope to keep on striving foward