It's everpresent, even though I wear a hearing aid for hearing loss (should wear two but they are SO expensive!!). When I take the hearing aid out at night I don't hear anything but the high pitched hum or sometimes like crickets or frogs making a racket on a spring evening. It doesn't seem like it comes from my ears but from my head, way inside.

It seems like when it's the constant one-note high pitch is when it makes me the craziest.

Sometimes I can't tell if the phone is ringing or it's my head/ears. Or I'll miss the kitchen timer or microwave because I can't distinguish the different sounds.

Oh grrr.

Thanks so much for all who commisserated with me. to you and what you have to endure too.

btw on another site I read that there are many things being tried, from low-salt diets, ginko-balboa (sp?), cochlear implants, and meds like Neurontin. I have some Neurontin and I'm going to try it for a few days.