What does habituation mean exactly?

Yes I have ear pain.

My personal take is that Reactive T and H are separate issues caused by one underlying thing (which science has not still figured out so no one will be able to tell you forsure).

I can describe my reactive t in two ways

1.) I have a sharp hissing tone that gets louder the moment something like a fan is turned on. Fans, AC, running water anything like that causes this hissing to get louder and it rides right over that noise

2.) I also have an issue of any time I do anything moderately noisy even if it’s as simple as leaving my house and going outside for a walk I come home and I have new tinnitus sounds that can take hours to calm down. It’s like my ears get irritated from any noise above soft ambient noise

3.) I watch TV mostly on mute or maybe a couple volume bars up with the captions turned on

My T doesn’t react to the TV but I do find most shows really difficult to watch due to the music and overall sound effects feeling too intense volume wise and sometimes it gives me extra pain inside of my ears

/r/tinnitus Thread Parent