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This! Ruined my ears with a combination of loving dancing against speakers, always having my headphones at max volume, and a few ear infections.

Tinnitus was keeping me awake at night, and like others said it made it hard for me to follow conversations in pubs/bars/busy places..

Then one day I read about the massive artery next to your ear, which you cannot hear (OK sometime you can when you are running or have a pounding headache) but the realisation that this sound was always there but you don't hear it, was amazing for me.

Within a week I'd largely tuned it out. It is still there and if I think about it I can always hear it. But it no longer upsets me and is just a thing and not an issue for me.