Wondering if there is a correlation. I have significantly less hearing in my right ear, which is the one I used for the phone in 20 years of office work, although the phone is way less used these days with email, it’s the only thing I can think of that contributed to losing some hearing in this ear. In fact it’s so bad that if I need to drown out noises to go to sleep I just need to sleep on my left with the bad ear up and can hardly hear a thing except the static of the tinnitus hahaha.