đź•’ 7 minutes readNobody notices it happening at first. You ask someone to repeat themselves and blame the noise in the room. You turn the television up a little more than usual and tell yourself the speakers are getting old. You miss the end of a sentence in a meeting and nod along anyway, hoping context fills the gap.
đź•’ 6 minutes readYou hear a ringing sound. Sometimes it’s soft. Sometimes it’s so loud it’s hard to concentrate. You look around, and there’s nothing there. No alarm, no TV, no background noise. It’s just in your ears.
That’s tinnitus. And if you’re living with it, you already know how frustrating it can be.
The problem is, most people ignore it for months, sometimes years, before actually getting a pure tone audiometry test for Tinnitus. They assume it’ll go away on its own. And sometimes it does. But often, it doesn’t.
