^^This. The wife keeps harping at me to wear my hearing aids more regularly, but has a hard time understanding this. When the tinnitus gets bad (mine varies from "crickets chirping" to an F-16 on full afterburner) I just throw them back in the drawer. I have had some relief with different devices utilizing white noise, but nothing consistent. After 40 years of this crap, I really miss good old fashioned silence.