I got tinnitus after getting covid (which turned into a bad case of long covid that I'm still battling). It started out as maybe a 2 out of 10. Present. Annoyin

I got tinnitus after getting covid (which turned into a bad case of long covid that I'm still battling). It started out as maybe a 2 out of 10. Present. Annoying, but not super disrupting. I could play some youtube videos with a creek of water on the lowest sound setting and I couldn't hear it. Then one day a couple of months later it jumped up to a 5 or so. This was disruptive. I had to crank the volume up to about 60% vs 5% before and I had to use a tinnitus flosser matched to my frequency. This was bad. I was losing my mind. I went back to my audiologist and got a hearing aid to reprogram my brain. I did 90 days of light programming and got reduced to maybe a 3.5. After 90 days she cranked the programming up to more intense and I'm now down to maybe 2.5. Definitely livable. Annoying, present, detectable. But also easy to lose track of it when distracted. I hope it goes away some day. It's only in my left ear and a hearing test showed I did have partial hearing loss in my left ear at higher frequencies. One interesting thing in my experience is that just like when you get a new eye glass prescription they ask if A or B is better but here they asked if my tinnitus sounded more like A or B and for every single one I could not answer. It was not like either of them. Not even close. It somehow did not compare. There is a new approach out there and my audiologist has inquired to be part of the next wave (it's super early still) and I will try it out if she gets it. It's a new technique involving modulation and the tongue.