Mine is the same as yours, a constant screech with a hisss.
It’s to the point now of interfering with my ability to understand normal conversation.
I catch myself looking at a speakers mouth to make sure I am hearing the right words.
Some nights it even keeps me awake.
I suppose someday I will lose my hearing completely except for this damned noise.
The FDA will never approve any treatment in my lifetime.
I have been exposed to loud noises most of my life. Shotguns, unmuffled farm tractors, unmuffled trucks and motorcycles and loud music.
Picture Grandma’s house and the double bell door ringer in the hallway. Now picture that ringer five feet in front of your head and it’s ringing 24 hours a day. That is my tinnitus.
It came on like someone flipped a light switch, and after 80 hours of no sleep, the hospital knocked me out.
Turns out the tinnitus hertz matched the frequency of my hearing loss, so relief was gained by hearing aids with sound maskers matching the lost frequencies.
Best $7k we ever spent, would have paid that times tem for the relief achieved.
Sounds very much like we both ignored all the loud noises when young and have the same symptoms now. I’m 66 now and have noticed I’m asking more people to repeat themselves and to speak up. Not a good sign. My uncle is 97 and went deaf over the past 4 to 5 years.
my hearing aid now has a setting for tinnitus. it emits a sound that matches the various sounds of tinnitus in my ears. this somehow cancels out the tinnitus and makes it easier to live with. I’m told that eventually I’ll stop hearing the tinnitus entirely. so far it just makes it easier to live with.