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9 weeks in and still struggling to adapt. Have no idea what's caused it, still hoping it might leave as quickly as it arrived!

Have you tried a white noise generator? You can get on the NHS, I believe.
I've had it for 16 years now and don't really notice it any more, unless it's very quiet in the room. I hope it gets better for you.

Mine went away on its own after about 4 months!!

Silence makes it worse so just keep background noise going as much as possible. You do eventually start to tune it out and ignore it. I've had it for 30 years and on average, there are only 4-5 times a year it actually bothers me or interferes with my life directly.

I've had it for years, but I really don't notice it 99% of the time. In the early days I worked really hard at turning my attention to something else when I noticed it, training my brain that it was unimportant noise that it didn't need to tell me about.

Mine is very on and off so maybe not much useful advice. I find that I listen to music or podcasts a lot - hearing anything but that godawful high pitched tone is better, even at lower levels

I've had it since 2014, you will learn to zone out of it and now mine doesn't bother me unless I specifically listen to it (I changes when I'm going to be ill).

I'm in the same boat. Been really bad for about 2 months. Mine is a low hum..so much so that I checked for the inconsiderate driver with the engine running for ages when I first noticed it.

Doctor has referred me for hearing test. It is getting me down though.

I've had it since 2011. Used to it now though. Only bothers me when it gets really bad and I can't sleep. Sometimes I just want silence, not white noise.

Have you tried the weird tapping thing? It does quieten it a bit for me, for about 10-20 minutes.

I also saw some little ear plugs that might possibly ease it that I'm tempted to try.

I have a few different sounds, a mid pitch tone in left ear, a morse code like one in the right that comes and goes and also a general high pitched/static sounding head noise but predominantly from the right. Not sure how I'm to get used to all that!

I think I am starting to 'filter out' the left ear noise as sometimes I think it's gone but if I block my ear I can hear it just the same as it always was. The high pitched head noise on the other hand is very irritating - always there, always noticeable and not possible to mask as too high pitched.

Has anything triggered it? I have had it for years but over the summer went through a stressful period and my tinnitus went crazy. It was constant. Stressor has now gone and tinnitus is back to normal almost.

Mine is also very varied. Many different tones and patterns and each ear does its own thing. Even with how random it is you do tune it out eventually. I only notice it now if someone makes me think about it - like how your head itches when you hear about nits.

I’ve had it for 40 years. I don’t think about it most of the time, which is the best way to deal with it. If you check on it, it’s there.