This 2023 article says hearing aids can help. https://www.ncoa.org/adviser/hearin...SoundRelax,to its sophisticated sound therapy.
Xanax can help some but it's temporary and benzos are often addictive. There are masking sounds, many just use a room fan or rain sounds played in the bedroom. Prednisone steroids / nasal sprays can help some if its is a erustucan tube disfunction related tinnitus. Its hard to believe however at the start but one day you won't even notice it. Mine only becomes loud when I think about, read a post about it This took maybe eight months before I habituated.
You guys should try https://old.reddit.com/r/tinnitus/ with 44K posters, instead of a trading message board with a 19 year old thread.
Well there is more info there, more rubbish to wade through too. And find that nothing actually works but habituation however that does make life OK again, the long way? Noise to signal I've tried most things and you get a small change here and there that after a while you don't care about anyway. It is however important to make sure for example there is no tumour involved. If its pulsatile tinnitus, also important to have a physiological check. I've even tried hyperbaric and bimodal therapy with the tongue nerve stimulator and nothing.. I have the classic high pitch T, both sides caused by bariotraumas. The advantage of an old thread is people who have lots of experience can tell you that as impossible as it seems, you stop consciously noticing it nearly all the time.
The advantage of a new thread is that technology and health science do improve through the years. That being said, my take is that there is more than one cause for tinnitus, so it is possible some types can be cured, mediated, some others can not be.
False hope is easy to give and get. Get advice from people who have had tinnitus recently but had it a few years, not other desperate new people on social media. Or drama queens, or brain-trusts who just want to put some brain dropping ideas into social media. See a specialist. Get a hearing test done in a booth. Take the nasal spray etc. or get a scan as recommended. Rule out a tumour and have a positive ID on the type of T. If nothing works with the usual approaches the new-new private company research stuff is flim-flam designed to take your money. One day it won't be but for decades now there has always been 'something promising' coming. It's never cheap. I was about to spend thousands on the stupid bimodal stuff but a hearing therapist said she would contact the company saying she was a prospective agent and got it for free. She said it would not work, it didn't. You will adapt to it, my tinnitus set in about three or four years ago and I did all the useless research and I'm very thorough. I have deep pockets and would happily have paid a million for a cure the first months but not anymore, you just stop noticing it as impossible as that seems. I had a lot of trouble accepting what everybody a year or two ahead of me were saying.
You are right, don't fall prey to the hustling scam artists. The first few months are maddening. Definitely had the fight or flight feeling going on damn near all day. Seemed impossible to ignore, especially at bedtime. Eventually, impossible as it seems, one does simply get used to it. I can see how some people would do just about anything to find relief. I did, quite by accident, that the sound of running water would mask about 90 percent of the ringing. It might work for you.
I don't even use masking noises anymore but when I did this through a bluetooth speaker under the foot of bed would bring me back to a little house I had over a river. I used a youtube downloader to make an MP3 of it.
Likewise, I rarely use it but I have developed some off and on tinnitus in my other ear which is at a different pitch altogether which can be annoying as hell. On those occasions I may use something. Your YouTube link worked well. I downloaded the sound of a open water faucet which was my orginal discovery while shaving.