Hmm interesting... Yesterday I ate some chocolate which was hard from the
fridge and was tough to chew. I noticed how my tinnitus would increase every
time I tried to bite into the chocolate.  Maybe the trick is to avoid
anything that aggravates the T.  I'm already wearing a tooth guard at night
for bruxism.

We all seem to have our preferred measures.  I've had quite good success
with taking these:

1) Take one eighth of an aspirin a day. Talk about a cheap drug
treatment...a single tablet lasts a week!  But I have proved to myself this
makes a difference.

2) Leave a 'blue noise' (high frequency filtered white noise) generator
quietly playing by my bed all night. This almost completely removes the
tinnitus which otherwise would be at its worst then. I think playing a noise
like this also must help with the habituation process.

As a result of the above, tinnitus rarely now troubles me during the day.
But whenever it does, I simply wear a little device I made, tuned to amplify
only the 'tinnitus band', and which therefore replaces the T with sounds
from the outside world.

The knowledge I have ways to control my tinnitus is very important. Since I
know I'm in control, I can relax about it and it therefore the T becomes
less of an issue.  Indeed it's now just an interesting curiosity for me.

Steve