Q. Is treatment effective even for long-standing tinnitus?
Chronic tinnitus is also treatable. Even when complete elimination is difficult, intensity can be lowered and daily-life inconvenience greatly improved.
📝 Detailed Answer
It is true that long-standing tinnitus responds more slowly than tinnitus of recent onset.
However, if the goal is reset, meaningful change is possible. Not getting rid of the sound, but reducing the part where the tinnitus keeps you from sleeping, from concentrating, or makes you low.
In long-standing tinnitus, what is actually hard is often the sleep disturbance and the anxiety rather than the sound itself. That part can be addressed.
If the tinnitus is leading to low mood, please tell us. If needed we recommend psychiatric care alongside. Depression arising from tinnitus is not rare and is a subject for treatment.
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