I am with you Mike. Exactly the same. The hearing aids help in places with noisy backgrounds, nice to have a conversation again. I realized after 10 years it is not going away ( both ears). I found out I am deaf for upper tones. The audiologist said my brain is compensating for the upper tones and that’s why I have it. It was amazing, I did not know what I could not hear until I got the hearing aids. I think it helps the tinnitus if I leave the aids in like the audiologist said it would. The problem is I really don’t want to hear a lot these days, so I wear them only if going out or want to watch a movie etc.. For example doing dishes with hearing aids in is a nightmare. Wine helps in my case. Helps me sleep. I never wear them while riding…I've suffered from it for years along with age related hearing loss. I got hearing aids 9 months ago and it has helped with the tinnitus more than I thought it would. I think that now I can hear more of what's going on around me my brain doesn't focus so much on the ringing. My biggest problem was without the hearing aids, if I was someplace with a lot of background noise like in a pub or resturant, I had a hard time understanding what the person next to me was saying. Now that I can hear more I still have a hard time because the background noise is as amplified as the voice of the person next to me.
I have a feeling you're going somewhere with this but just can't work out what it is.Fun Fact #1 : 3 out of the top 5 hearing aid companies in the world are Danish
Sonova - Swiss with 31%
Demant (Oticon, Bernafon + others) - Danish 30%
WS Audiology (Widex and Sevantos) - Danish 19%
GN Resound - Danish 15%
Starkey - US 4%
Others 1%
Fun Fact #2 - 3 of these companies have their global HQ within 30km of where I am sitting now.
The largest supplier of 3D design software in the Audio industry is also Danish, with something like 85"% of the world market.
I'm the same 45 years so far of a 9" disc grinder on off 8-10 hrs a dayA lifetime of industrial & recreational noise, much of it unprotected. Suffered with tinnitus for decades. Denial of deafness the last 5 years. These changed the game: