I have had this for 4 mths, it drives me mad sometimes, other times its quiet, im getting anxious about it and have started taking a sleeping tablet at night, im going to ask my doctor to give me something for anxiety. You should make an appt with ent dept just to make sure nothing is wrong, tinnitus has so many causes, I cant figure out my cause cos so many things happened at once when I got tinnitus, I had 3 teeth pulled out about 2wks before so it could be tmj, I was takingibruprofen for the pain, thats a cause, then my doc put me on prozac for pmt, thats also a cause, and I have metal toxicity too due to having silver fillings for years, I have had them removed now but it takes years to get metal out of you body and a big symptom of this is tinnitus. Dawn