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(1)What does your doctor say?
(2)Could you afford to see an ENT doctor in that affluent America?
Doctors are supposed to help people but not supposed to drive a Porche
and live in a large house.  The latter is a sick phenomenon!
(3)But first of all, make sure that you don't have troubles with your
inner ear.  You do need to check it out with your doctor for that.
Check with your GP first.

(A)If you had no money for expensive doctors or your expensive doctors
had no answers, then take my advice.  Try a tablet of betahistine
after dinner everyday to help your inner ear fluid circulation.  If it
helped, stick to it for at least 6 months before slowing quiting.
Betahistine is not addictive and in places like Hong Kong is sold OTC.
If you like betahistine, then record how you feel.  After one week of
using it, add another tablet of gingko biloba in the morning and
continue to record how you feel.  If you felt good, stick to it for a
long time also.

Tinnitus is a troublesome ill.  My experience and my doctors' too
suggest that so far the best way to cope with it is on 'long term'
treatment.

(B)If (a) did not help or helped but not that much, then try an
acupuncture treatment and see how it feels.  You should be able to
tell after one treatment.
(C)us a low pillow when you sleep.  That could help the circulation in
your head.
(4)go for one chiropractor treatment and see how you feel.  Sometimes
a relaxed spine helps it.

Remember, if something works, stick to it.  Yes, most doctors don't
have answers for tinnitus.  I used to be under the impression that the
doctors in China were professionally inferior to their western
counterparts until I was made to be convinced that their western
counterparts are just about as f-d up as they are in the area of
treating this horrific ill.

FP  

The outer ear is mostly cartilige- the acoustic nerve doesn't
go to the outer ear. So save for pain and pressure nerve
endings I'm not sure how touching your ear could exacerbate
your tinnitus. Tinnitus, in it's broadest term, is a nervous
system (brain) problem anyway.

Hopefully, it's feeling better today.

frank