If I mow the lawn with ear plugs and muffs, will it keep the tinnitus from getting louder? The mower is loud, I can still hear it with both on.

What do you think?

Noticed slight tinnitus in my right ear about 4 months ago. Went to an ENT to check it out, and everything checked out fine. He didn’t recommend an MRI or Cat because all the tests showed normal.

He however didn’t do any high frequency testing, just did the normal frequency testing. He said there’s nothing I can do about the tinnitus.

Should I go have a second opinion from an audiologist versus the ENT? The only difference is the person, and that the audiologist will test for higher frequency hearing loss. But overall, if she states I have tinnitus, then what really can be done?

Is the cost worth the extra opinion?

I’m pretty convinced that I suffer from the condition called Hyperacusis. The noises I can’t STAND are the tv from a different room (just my luck. my bedroom is the one right over it) and my parents talking (especially in the car. but also in rooms in the house that i can hear them.) This morning I was awoken at 5:30 because they started talking in their room. and I was kept up by them till midnight because of their choice of night-time activity. … So what I do is I break down and I cry and I get really pissed and I hate it. This has always happened at home… except once when I was trying to sleep at camp and another girl was snoring. I cried. At camp. Good thing I didn’t wake anyone up… Now I’m rambling. Apologies. Anyways, I can’t sleep and I can’t sit in my room and I’m going in to 8th grade and if I don’t sleep and get the quiet I need it’s gonna start impacting my grades. It’s getting so hard that I’m considering going to live with my brother. What do I do about this? It’s been going on for over a year and it hasn’t gotten any better. Please help!
earplugs don’t work. Before I’ve had to fall asleep to music and it makes it worse because I can’t sleep peacefully. So ipods are also not an option.