Do people with sudden deafness have lifelong tinnitus?

Patients with sudden deafness may suffer from tinnitus for life if they do not receive timely and effective treatment. Sudden deafness is an ear emergency that requires early detection, diagnosis and treatment, and the timeliness of treatment has a great impact on the recovery of sudden deafness. Patients usually need to be treated with medications that can help improve microcirculation in the inner ear and nerve nutrition, such as ginkgo biloba preparations, methylcobalamin, etc., and usually with hormonal medications. Some patients may recover well and their deafness may be close to the level before the onset of the disease, and their tinnitus symptoms may be relieved or even disappear completely. However, some patients may have some residual tinnitus symptoms, or even tinnitus symptoms that do not improve at all and persist all the time.