Tinnitus can lead to stress, concentration problems, depression and lead to partial social isolation (some people with tinnitus are very sensitive to places with constant noise, so they to avoid such social situations). It also interferes with sleep.

Modern medicine does not support the thesis that sound therapy can cure tinnitus. Sound 'therapy' can just be a helpful tool for managing the symptoms. Listening to different selected sounds can help one feel that tinnitus is reduced or paused for a short time. (Pink noise or other kind of noise can produce only short-time acoustic retention effect). It only may help the sufferer to learn to hold attention away from tinnitus to a degree, and focus his hearing on something else, but that can not be an effortless or time-dominant strategy.

 

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Cancels it out.

I guess you mean it's temporary in that the aid doesn't heal the ear like a broken bone!
Other than that, it's not short-term if he keeps using it all his life!

 

Does that mean that a 10khz sine-wave at 80db is more dangerous to the ear than a sinewave at 100hz / 80db ?

 

yes exactly,
rough borderlines of hearing/pain thresholds here:

 

something to bear in mind, you have "sympathetic responses/vibrations for some ( if not all) frequencies. The surrounding hairs/nerve cells that respond to adjacent frequencies of the one you hear will respond/vibrate.

I have a massive loss across frequencies( genetic) and my audiologist had told me and demonstrated that where I have absolute loss on specific frequencies, the adjacent frequencies will resonate to create the perception of sound.

with regards to testing for testing for hearing and tinnitus. Please NEVER self test because even if you can't hear it( or acknowledge via your brain) loud volume of high frequencies( especially pure tones) can damage( high frequencies hairs are more sensitive to damage than freuqncy hairs), it just that you won't get the same feedback from your body ( eg bass vibration in your body) that is telling you that it is loud.If you have any loss before then your hearing becomes even more sensitive to volume( your ears/brain attempt to compensate) and thus you are at a greater of damage.

go to a specialist to test for hearing and tinnitus and get checked out and take their advice on how to protect yourself.

tinnitus is truly horrible and I require some low level background noise( or use a hearing aid) but then I can't stand loud noises either.

I've had profound hearing issues for all of my life and when you get older ( beyond a certain age) they will suddenly get worse( even an ear infection can cause damage)

 

Its because of wear and tear/ expose to sound not your brain( young deaf adults or children have reduced sensitivities to high frequencies as they get older). The high frequencies hairs are far more sensitive to sound ( it's a physical function of their ability to "tune in" to specific frequencies)

 

the phonaks are not bad.Ive had them plus opticons though out my life.

 

Based on this picture. The frequencies that are the most dangerous to the ear are between 3khz and 4khz. And the 14khz and 15khz is less dangerous than 10khz ? So it is not like the higher the frequency is the more dangerous it is then ?

 

You are wrong. Brain processing has a big role in hearing. At a time, I had a dopamine disbalance in the brain, and could hear unbelievably quiet sounds, like heartbeat of someone sitting beside me. Dopamine speeds up all of the brain processing, including hearing. It has nothing to do with the ear anatomy. When the brain processing slows down, the sound innervation drops behind the brain switching threshold, no matter of your ear hairs' state.

 

You are both right. Stop looking for absolute truth in the material realm.

 

I'm going by all of the doctors and the audiologists I used for the last 50 years and their expertise

 

yeah no need to do own research cause nowadays doctors are so freakin good , you dont even need a lot of money to get a really good one .