Remission and habituation - Two ways to get into a better place

Rick_7023

Rick_7023

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After 9 months of bad tinnitus, i'm starting to believe that "getting into a better place" goes through 2 different ways:

1) Natural remission of tinnitus, where it's loudness reduces very slowly over time, although, with setbacks (3 steps forward, 2 steps back)

2) The so called "habituation", that includes a lot of stuf, like acceptance, managing anxiety, managing the reaction we have to tinnitus, and so on

I already heard that remission happens in a lot of cases, around 75% of tinnitus cases enter into remission

Remission is just luck and builds up so slowly over time

But managing the anxiety and our reactions tinnitus we could control, and in a certain way, David helps us a lot in that, always positive about it

What you guys think about this? Is remission real? Did you guys already experienced remission in the loudness of tinnitus?
 
On the topic of loudness, this is always difficult for me to characterize. I feel like the loudness of my tinnitus is relatively unchanged, but how often I noticed it is so much less than before.

But I am a little bit suspect that as I have come to notice it less that perhaps maybe actually the loudness is a little bit less too. I'm still on the fence on this.

There can be some days where I especially notice it but I'm so fortunate in this regard because even when I notice it I don't care or worry about it.
 
David said:
On the topic of loudness, this is always difficult for me to characterize. I feel like the loudness of my tinnitus is relatively unchanged, but how often I noticed it is so much less than before.

But I am a little bit suspect that as I have come to notice it less that perhaps maybe actually the loudness is a little bit less too. I'm still on the fence on this.

There can be some days where I especially notice it but I'm so fortunate in this regard because even when I notice it I don't care or worry about it.
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Yes, i totally agree that it's so hard to figure out if our improvements is due to a remission of the tinnitus loudness, or if it's due to the so called habituation

In my case it's clearly noticeble that the loudness and the number of tones is reducing, but the exact percentage of that reduction is far impossible to determine.

This reduction is easy to figure out in my case, because my tinnitus aggravation was due to a concrete and perfectly identified fact that happened: noise trauma (because i used a more powerful hearing aids during 40 days). My tinnitus loudness spiked during those awful 40 days, and when i stop using those hearing aids, it was very loud. Since i stoped using those hearing aids, my tinnitus is getting back down again, very sloowly over time, in its loudness and in the number of tones.

Besides of the improvements, i still have bad days, and in those bad days it seems that i'm walking backwards a lot of steeps. What it's pretty desperate...

And i already notice that this bad days normally coincide with a peak of anxiety, leading to the vicious circle of: anxiety increases tinnitus, and tinnitus increases anxiety.
 
Rick_7023 said:
Yes, i totally agree that it's so hard to figure out if our improvements is due to a remission of the tinnitus loudness, or if it's due to the so called habituation

In my case it's clearly noticeble that the loudness and the number of tones is reducing, but the exact percentage of that reduction is far impossible to determine.

This reduction is easy to figure out in my case, because my tinnitus aggravation was due to a concrete and perfectly identified fact that happened: noise trauma (because i used a more powerful hearing aids during 40 days). My tinnitus loudness spiked during those awful 40 days, and when i stop using those hearing aids, it was very loud. Since i stoped using those hearing aids, my tinnitus is getting back down again, very sloowly over time, in its loudness and in the number of tones.

Besides of the improvements, i still have bad days, and in those bad days it seems that i'm walking backwards a lot of steeps. What it's pretty desperate...

And i already notice that this bad days normally coincide with a peak of anxiety, leading to the vicious circle of: anxiety increases tinnitus, and tinnitus increases anxiety.
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It's already good that you've come to that realization that anxiety and tinnitus tend coincide with each other. At least for the time being I'm just about 100% not caring whatsoever about the sound. Hopefully I'll be able to maintain that over the years ahead.
 
David said:
It's already good that you've come to that realization that anxiety and tinnitus tend coincide with each other. At least for the time being I'm just about 100% not caring whatsoever about the sound. Hopefully I'll be able to maintain that over the years ahead.
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I'm sure you will David, you already know the path, just keep going, i have faith in you.

Remember, there is still a lot of señoritas out there to dance a kizomba. :) TOP
 
Rick_7023 said:
I'm sure you will David, you already know the path, just keep going, i have faith in you.

Remember, there is still a lot of señoritas out there to dance a kizomba. :) TOP
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I still never tried that dance. Maybe I will one day haha
 
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