Article from BBC's frontpage - "Japanese pop star deaf in one ear"

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Originally Posted by polka-dot-jewel

It's a disease. Symptoms can't have their own symptoms. Plus, symptoms don't have their national organizations.

I mean, true, tinnitus DOES show that you're starting to lose your hearing, but in the end, it's a disease.

I'm a physician and tinnitus IS a symoptom not a disease. The meaning of tinnitus is "a ringing in the ears". Tinnitus isn't necessarily related with hearing loss. It's a symptom caused wen you have a problem in the inner ear, and can be caused by SEVERAL diseases. You can go deaf without having tinnitus or you could go deaf having tinnitus, or you can have tinnitus and not go deaf. It's plainly a symptom and not a disease.

Basically, the symptom for tinnitus is the mild / constant ringing in your ears.

You are just describing what the symptom "tinnitus" is.



Check this:

http://www.healthscout.com/ency/68/211/main.html

Tinnitus is not a disease in itself, but a symptom that something is wrong in the auditory system. While theories exist, the actual mechanism responsible for tinnitus remains unknown, as does the origin of the ear noises. But tinnitus is not just in the patient's imagination. It is a physiological or neurological event that has not yet been identified.