I'm Noreen and Have Had Tinnitus for 10 Years — I'm 64.

[Noreen McLean]

Hi
I'm 64, almost 65 and have had it for about 10 years. It's really gotten bad the past two years. Today it's really loud, the loudest it's been and has almost brought me to tears.

 

[billie48]

Welcome to the forum. Sorry about your spiked up T. Have you found out what caused the increase? Perhaps try masking it so you won't have to face T without other sounds around. If you haven't tried masking the new spiked T, here are some suggestions:
1) Mask at bed time so you can sleep better. Find whatever sounds/music that are soothing to you. You can use a sound machine or sound pillow for this, or a computer with speakers.

2) If you need masking on the go, try load an ipod with nature sounds or music using itune. If you have a smart phone, you can download free APPs for soothing or T-masking sounds.

3) If you have computer and speakers, you can try these excellent masking sounds too:

TT's audio player: https://www.tinnitustalk.com/audioplayer/

or this online sound library, particularly the self-mix nature sounds: https://mynoise.net

or download free sound generator 'aire freshener': http://www.peterhirschberg.com/mysoftware.html

or search youtube with words like 'tinnitus masking sounds', 'white noise', 'rain sound' etc.