When you first notice that ringing in your ears you might have a very typical response: pretend everything’s good. You go through your day the same as usual: you do your grocery shopping, you make dinner, you try to have a conversation with your friends. While you simultaneously try your best to ignore that ringing. Because you’re convinced of one fact: your tinnitus will go away by itself.
You begin to get concerned, however, when after a few days the ringing and buzzing is unrelenting.
This scenario happens to others as well. Tinnitus can be a tricky little condition, sometimes it will go away on its own and in some cases, it will stick around for a long time to come.
The Condition of Temporary Tinnitus
Tinnitus is very common around the world, nearly everyone’s had a bout here and there. In nearly all circumstances, tinnitus is essentially temporary and will ultimately subside on its own. The most prevalent example is the rock concert: you go to your local stadium to see your favorite band and you notice, when you get home, that your ears are ringing.
Within a few days the type of tinnitus connected to damage from loud noise will normally fade away (and you chalk it up to the price of seeing your favorite band play live).
Naturally, it’s precisely this kind of noise injury that, over time, can cause loss of hearing to go from temporary (or acute, as they say) to chronic. One concert too many and you could be waiting a long, long time for your tinnitus to go away by itself.
sometimes, Tinnitus Doesn’t Just Disappear
If your tinnitus persists for over three months it’s then labeled as chronic tinnitus (but you should have it checked by an expert long before that).
Around 5-15% of individuals around the world have reported indications of chronic tinnitus. While there are some understood close connections (such as loss of hearing, for example), the causes of tinnitus aren’t yet well comprehended.
Often, a fast cure for tinnitus will be elusive if the triggers aren’t apparent. There is a strong possibility that your tinnitus won’t disappear by itself if you have been hearing the ringing for over three months. But if this is your situation, you can maintain your quality of life and deal with your symptoms with some treatment options (such as noise canceling devices and cognitive behavioral therapy).
It’s Significant to Know What The Cause of Your Tinnitus is
When you can recognize the fundamental cause of your tinnitus, dealing with the condition quickly becomes much easier. If a bacterial ear infection is, for example, the reason for your tinnitus, you can revive a healthy ear and clear hearing by treating it with antibiotics.
Some causes of acute tinnitus may include:
- Eardrum damage (such as a perforated eardrum)
- Meniere’s disease (this usually has no cure and is often associated with chronic tinnitus)
- Chronic ear infections
- A blockage in the ear or ear canal
- Loss of hearing (again, this is often associated with chronic tinnitus)
So..Will The Noises in My Ears Stop?
The truth is that in most cases, yes, your tinnitus will go away on its own. But the longer it lingers, the longer you hear tinnitus noises, the more likely it becomes that you’re coping with chronic tinnitus.
You feel that if you just forget it should go away on its own. But sooner or later, your tinnitus may become distressing and it may become hard to focus on anything else. And in those cases, you may want a treatment plan more thorough than crossing your fingers.
The majority of the time tinnitus is just the body’s answer to loud noise that could be damaging over time and will subside by itself. Only time will tell if your tinnitus is chronic or acute.
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