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I understand that tinnitus is due to an issue inside the ear. How do ear plugs help since they block the outside noise?

• rantallion 4y ago
  > The passive noise cancellation from having a shelf around your ear from a headphone blocks a lot of low frequency sounds it seems. Covering their ears helps block the low frequency sounds. Yeah, they're not describing tinnitus at all, just some ambient noise that annoys them at night.
• mettamage 4y ago
  Perhaps I didn't explain things fully and/or clearly. I never mentioned that I'm trying to block tinnitus. What I did describe was preventing from aggravating my tinnitus when the earplugs penetrate more into my ears due to lying on my side. Tinnitus itself cannot be blocked, at best it can be masked. I do not have a problem with my base level of tinnitus. I have a problem when my tinnitus sounds 10 times as loud due to it being aggrevated when something is pressing on my ear. There are more noises than simply tinnitus. There are car sounds, airplane sounds, random people sounds, all kinds of sounds. These sounds could not be blocked previously. The reason they could not be blocked is because if I'd block them solely with earplugs, then while all kinds of outside sounds would be blocked my tinnitus sound would be way worse which would render the point of blocking outside sounds as pointless.