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

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.