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Tinnitus Linked to Hidden Undetected Auditory Nerve Damage – A Step Towards a Cure (scitechdaily.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A groundbreaking study by Mass Eye and Ear associates tinnitus with undetected auditory nerve damage, challenging previous beliefs and opening new paths for treatment through auditory nerve regeneration.

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[+] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

well, my dog certainly hates that! I think about 13k in my right ear but it almost seems like it's more than one tone?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, very likely a mix of tones. For me it's primarily 13.9kHz, but occasionally a much lower tone in just my right ear

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

If you have trouble sleeping, I've found Pink Noise a great help (that's noise with equal energy per octave, instead of per frequency like White Noise).

I mostly have tinnitus above 16kHz (used to hear up to 20kHz as a youngster), but it's progressing with age and from time to time get the "ringing of death" of some cells dying (fortunately not all frequencies seem to add to the tinnitus).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Not really new news. 11 years ago cancer clinic told me the chemo will give me tinitus because besides cancer the chemo drug also kills hearing nerves. The loss of signals in one range makes the brain amplifies all channels to try to get input.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

This research is apparently showing different damage than what was thought from previous experiments. The previous theories would suggest minor hearing loss, but these researchers found many cases where affected people performed normally on hearing tests, indicating hidden nerve damage and a different mechanism causing the phantom sound

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Makes sense. I got tinnitus in my left ear after a particularly nasty ear infection.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Same here. Lifelong tinnitus in one ear without measurable hearing loss. Presumably due to a severe ear infection.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Also the same, but both ears. I think I've had it since I was about 10 after an ear infection and only relatively recently learned not everyone has stupidly high pitched ringing in their ears all the time.