Mine is 100% resolved. If you haven't gone to an ENT, do so My whole life I'd cleaned my ears with q-tips. I knew I shouldn't as it's written right on the pa

Mine is 100% resolved. If you haven't gone to an ENT, do so My whole life I'd cleaned my ears with q-tips. I knew I shouldn't as it's written right on the package. I'd stopped doing that after I was told not to by countless people. Fast forward a few years and I had tinnitus. Went to an ENT, told him of my symptoms, and mentioned a story about my great grandmother's hearing being impacted by ear wax build up. He tells me "Well, we'll take a look but chances are you're going to have this the rest of your life". As he takes a look in my ears I hear him mutter, "Oh, we're going to fix this right now". He promptly fishes two plugs of ear wax out of my ears. Ringing resolved 15 minutes after that. I asked him what should I do to prevent this? He said "You could come back and I fish them out again, or you know... you could use a q-tip to clean your ears on occasion" Edit: he did mention that once the build up is bad enough you can't clean it out on your own. That cleaning it on your own could push it further in, causing damage.