Interesting thread. After 6000+ hours of flying loud helicopters and 21 years L.E. experience, I have it bad. Keeps me up at night and wakes me up in the morning, despite a white noise unit in the room. And it never goes away, just gets masked by other noises. My doc just shrugs and tells me there is no cure. Currently I am in the middle of a 45 day trial period for the Serenade Sound Cure machine ($2000). The audiologist told me it works for about 50% of people. I must be on the wrong side of 50%, no helpful effect at all for me at least. And interesting comment about the person hearing some sort of music. Before my elderly mother died, she told me she had Tinnitus in the form of hearing the same music over and over again. To this day I thought she was going crazy, but maybe not. If you are a young guy (or gal), better take notice, or this will some day drive you crazy too.