Q Tinnitus came along with my sudden hearing loss. If the hearing loss heals, will the tinnitus naturally get better too?
A Tinnitus often decreases as hearing recovers, but there are also cases where hearing partly returns while only the tinnitus remains. It is best to actively manage the tinnitus as well.
Detailed Answer
Tinnitus accompanies 70 to 90 percent of sudden hearing loss patients. It tends to decrease as hearing recovers, but in some cases hearing returns to some extent while only the tinnitus persists or even becomes entrenched. Tinnitus often arises because the auditory nerve remains in an over-excited state after cochlear damage, so it may need to be managed separately from hearing.
Korean Medicine Clinic Perspective
Dongjedang views sudden hearing loss and tinnitus as symptoms arising from a single root and treats them together. Restoring inner-ear blood flow and replenishing Kidney deficiency benefits both hearing and tinnitus. If tinnitus remains even after hearing has recovered to some degree, we continue treatment in a direction that calms the over-excitation of the auditory nerve and stabilizes the autonomic nervous system. It is important to manage it actively before a vicious cycle of tinnitus and insomnia develops.
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