Thanks for providing that information. I don't recall reading those specific studies, but I may have read them at some point. I've read numerous articles that provided similar information.

Nothing in the articles refutes anything I said. The information in them, if anything, supports what I said. Clearly, the woman sited was suffering due to a specific and identifiable cause of her ailment. In most tinnitus sufferers, the cause is not easily determined, if it is able to be indentified at all. I'm guessing that most or all of those that responded to this thread are in the latter category, as that is the case for the vast majority of those with tinnitus.

About 18 years ago I suffered a trauma to one of my ear drums. That was long after the onset of my tinnitus. I ended up consulting a hearing specialist. While I eventually recovered fully from the trauma that brought me to the doctor, he informed me after testing that I had hearing loss in both my ears, most pronounced at 4k cycles, and that it was permanent. I think he called it "nerve deafness". He also told me there was nothing that could be done about my tinnitus. That was something I already knew, but the doctor confirmed it for me.