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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Is it possible for a deaf person to have tinnitus? If so, how does it work?
gpt
Yes.  The ringing is actually coming from your brain and not your ear.

When hair cells in the inner ear get damaged, the brain creates an annoying "eeee" sound becausd it's missing that proper connection.

There have been people who had severe tinnitus and got their auditory nerve, from their hearing organ to their brain, cut hoping it’ll make the ringing go away.  And they still had tinnitus, if not worse.