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You're... very incorrect.

Tinnitus can be caused by a neurological disease

Tinnitus can also be caused by incredibly tight/weak neck muscles such as the scalenes/SCM

Tinnitus can also be caused by high blood pressure - literally from hearing the blood.

Tinnitus can also be caused by compression of blood vessels - such as the subclavian artery (subclavian bruit) - often due to induced turbulent flow through the area.

Tinnitus can also be caused by something such as a cerebrospinal fluid leak.

Educate yourself.

Many people cured of CSF leaks or something like Thoracic Outlet Syndrome in which a scalene muscle is cut report decades of tinnitus being somewhat or completely relieved after surgery.

Tinnitus is caused by many, many things - some of which are cured from random things that people don't realize is going to have effect.

However, if you do have one of few neurological disease causes/damaged hairs, that shit definitely sucks and I don't think there's much hope yet aside from earbuds playing a matched frequency. I've actually heard of a good amount of success for some with supposed damaged hairs in that line of treatment - have you ever attempted to try it?

Not my intent to sound like a dick. I've had pretty severe tinnitus for now half of my life and I'm quite young. Shit sucks.




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