AirPods Causing Tinnitus?

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I wonder if it’s because the noise cancellation is muting sounds and when you remove them your body is readjusting to the normal world.

Much like the phenomenon that users report: when they first get AirPods they think the noise cancelation is top notch. After a year or two they report the cancellation has significantly degraded. In fact, it was their mind’s expectations that changed rather than the noise cancelation hardware.

Just suspicion. Not an expert in audiology.

I was very curious as this has now happened to me directly (which led me to search the web in the first instance). My current situation is tinnitus has severely increased. And it is much worse if I wear the AirPods (though in this case I can't objectively say/measure any potential bias I might now have after seeing the page).

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