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I've had it for over a decade now. Given I love live music and music production is a hobby of mine, it was pretty sad when the penny dropped for me that: yes, this ringing isn't gonna go away like it used to, a day or two after a gig.

Some kind of white noise or similar (I like rain sounds) when trying to sleep is an essential for me. ANC headphones will stop you from causing further damage as long as you keep your volumes at healthy levels (the ANC means you can use lower volumes that feel louder than they actually are).

Also, get yourself some loop experience (or similar) ear plugs for gigs that are designed to let through a bit more in the range music is generally played, whilst blocking loads of the frequencies you don't even hear. It's important to make sure you don't cause further damage now, I know some people get the "well I've already got it now, why bother" thought, but sadly you can always worsen things.

Generally I have gotten used to it tbh, I don't spend loads of my time thinking about it at least and with things like white noise for sleep, I can generally work around any issues.

Good you say you'll visit the doctor, it's very often caused by sound related hearing damage, but tinnitus can be a symptom of all sorts of other things, some of which are indeed temporary.

Finally if it is hearing damage, there's actually been some progress in new therapies for it in recent years. I read recently about a (currently pretty pricey, unfortunately) treatment where they sort of "recalibrate" your brain to filter out the signal generated by the damage. It apparently has pretty good results, I'm thinking of looking into it myself at some point