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[Ambassador]

I'm a new guy, bilateral tinnitus with high frequency hearing loss for almost two years now. I'm wearing hearing aids with a tinnitus masker and they do help quite a bit. I also play around with iPhone sound files with a pair of sleep head phones, sleeping with hearing aids isn't recommended. When it first hit me I was suicidal but a two month leave of absence from work and some Benzos that passed and I habituated within a few months. Was great for over a year and about 6 weeks ago it came roaring back, it never really left but it just didn't seem to be an issue. So here I am again, used a few Klonopins (really hate how I feel when I stop and will no longer use them, the pain of stopping is worse than the anxiety tinnitus causes) Now I am just masking as necessary and using Magnesium and think I will habituate again.

So to any and all who are at the end of their ability to handle this, hold on, you can get to a place where you can live with it. I know.