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I just got a hearing test. The results surprised me.
tr;dr: earplugs really do work to protect your hearing! But you have to wear them every time! #tinnitus
@wjt I'm in the same boat: recent heading test shows no problems (in fact, quite great in both ears)...
Yet I also have tinnitus in both ears (and can't understand people when there are noisy backgrounds or crosstalk, but that's another issue — and is also not related to hearing loss in my specific case).
@garrett Sorry to hear that. 
The audiologist I saw strongly recommended CBT as an aid to habituation. He said it's one of the better developments of recent years. I had already started on the self-guided component of https://www.joinoto.com/ – which was on his list. Let's see how it goes.
@garrett he also tempered my already low optimism for treatments that regenerate the damage to the cochlea. "That's been studied for decades. It will happen, but not in my lifetime."