You clearly have no idea how severe and debilitating tinnitus can be for some people. Why not do yourself and everyone else here a huge favour and leave...
Telling someone to use SSRI (Benzodiazepines) is the worst medical advice you can give, even for severe tinnitus.
You need to understand that those drugs become less effective after chronic use (which requires an uptake in dosages to get the same effect, which triggers dependence, that is until even the larger dose have no significant effect), this means that comes to a point, after years of intake, when you eventually have to stop taking the medication.
This is where withdrawal comes in. Benzodiazepines' (and other GABA stimulants) withdrawal effects are so severe that not only they will (with a 100% risk factor), increase your tinnitus, making it (much worse) but they will come with a plethora of other (quite serious) conditions, induced by the withdrawal symptoms (this can even include death! Go figure) a lot of which most people who tapper off the medication (stopping at once, aka cold Turkey, after years of exposure, would amount to extreme, unbearable, often irreversible, suffering).
Withdrawal effects can (depending on how long you were on the drug) and usually (in most cases, sometimes after only weeks of exposure), last for years (2 years on average, often longer). SSRI will basically mess up with your brain chemistry, inducing a lot of nasty side effects, most which would make severe tinnitus (which, by the way, is also one of those side effects) seem quite insignificant (I know that's hard to believe, but trust me (and scientific literature, and people who actually had to go through SSRI withdrawal) it's not a myth and this is no overexagerated or alarmist post, it's reality.
While the brain eventually recovers from its GABA/Glutamate imbalance (and other SSRI withdrawal related issues), it takes time, time that you would spend suffering (a lot).
Who, in his right mind, would risk that, for what would be temporary tinnitus relief? You would be essentially decreasing your perception of tinnitus for a while (weeks, months, years?), trading it for what will become years of unbearable pain, including increased perfection of your tinnitus (one of the longest withdrawal effect to go by the way, some lasting up to four years, because glutamate increase overstimulates (read, messes with) the auditory cortex (whoops!).
This usually translates (long term) into increased tinnitus loudness, more tones/frequencies/noises, increased and prolonged spikes, limbic system based tinnitus (the Tinnitus in your head rather than in the ears), bilateral tinnitus (since the auditory cortex is affected, which is why Benzodiazepines induce tinnitus to non tinnitus sufferers, you increase your chances of having tinnitus on both ears as it's no longer only an hearing loss issue).
Why would you risk any of this is beyond my understanding, I know I wouldn't.
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