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Comment by riku_iki | Hacker News Reader

> but can really be maddening when trying to fall asleep

does white noise help?..

Not the same user, but I've found the most relief from pink noise like rain or a waterfall played through decent speakers. I find it to be easier on the ears and less distracting than white noise.

I'd recommend anyone suffering play around with the generators on myNoise. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they kept me going when I was first adjusting to the ringing.

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/rainNoiseGenerator.php

I can't sleep with any colour of noise from a speaker, but a physical fan in the corner of the room does wonders.

I also listen to pink noise or rain sounds on headphones throughout my work day. I worry about the side effects of listening to random noise for so long, but I continue (not loudly) because it effectively masks my tinnitus (and helps with my task focus).

Again a different person but my tinnitus souds like white noise - but at a different pitch so not much use.

Unless I put the white noise very loud to drwon out tinnitus which is not a good thing to do.

You can modulate the white noise very effectively. I dabble with analog synthesizers which let you use low/high pass filters on white noise to get very interesting sounds. I wonder if you carefully matched it, it might alleviate the discomfort. Worth trying I suppose.

It masks it slightly. At the volumes required to compete with the loudness of the tinnitus, the white noise itself is problematic.

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