Sorry to hear that you've all been dealing with this terrible affliction. Though I can't personally attest to a true Long-COVID diagnosis for myself, I have read a great deal relating to reports of both COVID-19 infection and/or vaccine-related "hearing loss"/tinnitus. As an RN that worked ER all throughout COVID19, I was infected more times than I'd like to admit. I'm 35 and I've had intermittent (very light) tinnitus since I was young, but never bothersome enough to even talk about until about 1.5 years ago. To make a long story short, it's been horrific since it started to get worse and I really had no occupational or personal exposure to noises that I imagine could cause hearing loss. P.S. and short, I saw an ENT early 2023, and it turns out that I have partial sensorineural hearing loss (~8%) in, get this, only my left ear. I'm supposed to get an MRI to r/o an acoustic neuroma, though other than the SNHL, I do not have any other symptoms that would lead me to suspect that's the case. Of note, I have also never really used headphones or ear pods, don't listed to glaringly loud music, and as a righty, only use the phone on my right side. I'd like to consider myself relatively healthy and take absolutely no medication (haven't even taken an antibiotic in >20 years), so the only thing that's changed is COVID, go figure. I have also kind of used light white noise to sleep and really noticed the hearing loss when I realized on my pillow at night that when my right ear was exposed, I could hear the thunder and rain playing on Alexa, but with the left ear exposed, can only hear the thunder now. Praying somebody eventually figures something out because living with tinnitus is no pleasant. It has taken a lot of discipline to somewhat train my brain to forget that I'm living with it and I can only imagine how much worse it can potentially get as I get older, ugh!