It doesn’t work that way for me. The sound just gets more intense with loud or prolonged music. It’s worse at night and when waking up. Standing make it a little quieter. I have partial hearing loss in one ear with certain frequencies, but the tinnitus affects everything — surround sound. It went away for a while, and then it came back. Why? I don’t think I’ll ever know.
I was a swimmer in my younger years and got an infection in my left mastoid. It was bad, I was in the hospital for a couple weeks and bed ridden for a couple more after that. 100 watt guitar amps and guns didn’t help either.