I don't know that I have much to offer here. But I at least wanted to contribute. Several years ago I developed tinnitus (ringing & other noises in the ears.) There's really nothing that can be done for it. You just have to live with it. So, since then, my head has been full of noises that aren't there. There's no escape.

For the most part, it's not too bad. However, a while back I was having trouble with one ear feeling stopped up constantly. Long story short, an ENT put in an ear tube. All of a sudden, what had been a fairly low-grade noise exploded in my head! It was like I had a freight train running through it 24 / 7. I almost made another suicide attempt as a result of that.

Fortunately when the ear tube came out, the noise level went back down more or less to where it was before the ear tube was put in. I've learned to live with the noise in my head all of the time. I don't like it, but there's nothing I can do about it. I do worry from time-to-time, however, that at some point something will cause it to go back up to where it was while I had the ear tube. I don't think I could stand it permanently.