OK, just found this group while searching for something else, and
figured I'd pop in.  I've had what I assume is T for years and years.
I'm 37 now, and even as a child had a high frequency hearing loss.
But it wasn't until my mid 20's that I noticed that high pitch is
always there.  It's like taking a hearing test, and always hearing one
(or more) of those highest pitched tones.  I assume that's why I can't
hear some of those high frequencies anymore - I "hear" them all the
time so I can't differentiate between when there's a noise there or
not since for me, there's always a noise there.

I never really thought about the problem, never sought a cure.  It
hasn't affected me in any real way - it's just something there, like a
sore knee or something.  So while I have better and worse days
(sometimes I never notice it, i'm so used to it, and other times it's
just overwhelming and I go for an hour or so without really being able
to hear anything other than the T sound in my head) I never realized
how debilitating it can be until I started reading some of the threads
in here.

Since the little I know about it I know only from some random sources
(never been diagnosed or had it checked - like I said, it's just
something I've gotten used to), what details can I find out from in
here?  I see posts about some various homeopathic things that might
help a bit, but the normal thing is that it's not treatable and it's
there for life.  Pretty much what I had figured on anyway.  But for
those days when it's just so loud and overbearing of everything else
(conversations, TV, radio, everything just seems muddled and
indistinct), what *could* I try that might make a difference, at least
temporarily?  I never even thought to ask the quesiton before, so
after seeing some of the posts in here (and my ISP evidently doesn't
keep many from this group) I figured maybe I'd see what kind of advice
those "in the know" might have for a long time sufferer of it, but a
newbie as far as any information on T goes.

Thanks

John