With me, it's mostly frustration, and a lot of that frustration comes from dealing with doctors who don't seem to take it seriously and who tell you the same useless things you could find out on Google. They tell you to run a fan in your room, but my tinnitus is so loud that I would need a fan that sounds like a jet engine to mask it.
The doctors don't listen. I believe that my tinnitus was possibly caused by a neck injury that led to TMJ disorder. When you mention TMJ disorder, you get the same dumb looks, and then they tell you not to chew. The side that has the hissing and buzzing is the side where I have TMJ. They don't want to connect the dots, or they don't know how to connect the dots.
I also suffered from vertigo for close to two decades, and finally, I found a doctor who wasn't incompetent. She did the Epley maneuver, and more than a decade of suffering with vertigo ended.
The most painful part for me, besides the frustration with uncaring healthcare professionals, is the fact that I am a musician and I'm unable to play in bands. Even if I play acoustically with no amplification, my ears ring to the point that it's not worth it anymore. Music was a big part of my identity and who I was. When you are a musician, it's more than just a hobby, avocation, or vocation; it's who you are.
There probably is a cure for tinnitus. I know there's a lot of gimmicky stuff on the internet. The diagnosis when it comes to hearing tests seems kind of absurd to me. When your head is buzzing and you have to listen to tones, how do you know it's a hearing problem and not the fact that the tinnitus is masking the tones? It's frustrating because I'm also an audio engineer and know more about sound and frequencies than the people who do the testing and especially the doctors who are quite ignorant when it comes to anything other than prescribing drugs and sending you to another doctor who is not going to help you. It's quite disheartening.
In my case, the attempted cure for the neck injury, TMJ, and tinnitus was worse than the disease. Three different doctors, at the same time, gave me cortisone. Doctors don't communicate with each other because they're too busy and too arrogant, I suppose. They overdosed me on corticosteroids, which caused something called cortisone psychosis. For me, it was nearly a year-long nonstop panic attack along with hives, also known as urticaria. There are a lot of neurological symptoms caused by being overdosed on cortisone.
My guess is that these devices being sold on the internet as a "cure" for tinnitus are just another scam by unscrupulous people who make money by preying on the suffering of others.
The only thing that looked promising to me was chiropractic care, but in my case, the chiropractor's adjustments don't really do much because of so much damage to my neck, some of it caused by getting injections from incompetent, money-grubbing doctors.
I cannot definitively say what the cause is; I can only guess. More likely than not, it is caused by TMJ disorder in my case. Unfortunately, the medical industry, especially in the United States, is pretty inept and has gotten to the point that the term "medical science" is pretty much an oxymoron.
Tinnitus is supposedly one of the motivations for suicide. When people are suffering, they certainly are not at their best. I requested some Valium to act as a muscle relaxer for my jaw, but the medical mafia doesn't give that out anymore. I was offered some muscle relaxers that had many dangerous and unpleasant side effects. The pharmacist told me that the drug prescribed was pretty horrid and advised me to take magnesium, which has had some small positive effect.
The frustration is the worst thing for me. I have recorded probably four or five albums worth of music, and I did it as a labor of love because, in today's music industry, actual music, done by actual musicians playing actual musical instruments, is no longer en vogue.
I wonder how many billions of dollars have gone into the pockets of the medical industry from people who desperately went to their doctors begging for treatment for tinnitus. The whole thing is reprehensible.
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