I can report that my high pitched, most annoying tinnitus feels a bit lower in volume and more in the background of my consciousness than before since a couple of weeks. Less feeling of "laser in head" too. So not good, but better.
I did go ahead and listen to David's Tinnitus Mix using the Koss headset and a doughnut pillow. I used VLC on an iPhone with volume max on the headphones, and just one step up on volume (from zero) on the phone. I felt okay in the ears in the morning. I didn't listen for three weeks straight (only for a couple of weeks) and I think the headphones fell of a couple of times during the night, so maybe the results would have been even better if I did three straight weeks. Or maybe it's just time that helped – the hearing focused psychologist said to me that it usually took people 6 to 24 months to habituate. Make that 25 months for me then. Of course I'm fully aware that people are still in hell even beyond this time.
What is worse is that even if my tinnitus is a little bit better, I recently got confirmed that I have arthritis in my lower back.
Likely because of a back injury from 2007 and then a stupid (and totally unnecessary) lift in May last year. So now it feels like that is my main problem. Constant pain during the day. Exercise helps a little temporarily.
So now I'm reading up about arthritis instead of tinnitus. Quite sad really. Life, you have a bad sense of humor.
Anyway, maybe I am one of the success stories for David's Tinnitus Mix? At least somewhat. Thanks David!