I have tinnitus
Tried nutritional and other remedies. Then went to an Ear Nose and Throat Specialist. Yeah, that’s a $35 copay vs the normal $25
Here is MY diagnosis. Due to genetics, age, loud rock and roll, shooting without hearing protection, farm work - the hairs in my inner ear are gone. But the nerves that connected to them are fine.
The nerves are hypersensitive and feedback on the frequency you cannot hear. As I have mild hearing loss, with tinnitus- I got hearing aides that have a tinnitus setting. They have really made a difference. First month reduced my apparent volume by at least half. 2 years later; it’s still there but a fraction of the volume it was.
Ginkgo biloba and reducing salt worked for me. But I found it takes high quality ginkgo. Cheap gingko doesn’t work.
Yep; that's my guilty pleasure. It's when I quit Springsteen, after having seen him twice, barely louder than acoustic in little clubs at the seashore. I then went to a Tower Theater concert and he had six speakers as big as sports cars, stacked three on either side of the stage. It was literally deafening. Later on I went to Yes, Genesis, REM and the like in stadiums, and even they were not that loud. But after that one experience with Springsteen, I used earplugs for all subsequent rock concerts.
These days I hear a sound like having the windows open on a summer night when you live near a creek in the woods (tree frogs, crickets, etc), but I hear it all year round.