Right you are...I have had tinnitus for three decades and just live with it. My hearing aids have a tinnitus program that I full rely on to mask the high pitch noise that I have had for so long. If I want, I can use the other tinnitus app that comes with my Resound hearing aids. It is called "Relief" and I can play any type of sound or set up my own tones to mask my noise in my head. I found what I like and use two different programs to muffle it and I don't really hear it anymore. You train yourself to hear the 'new' sounds instead of the phantom sounds that your brain is making and that way it is fooling your brain and you can concentrate on things that are more important than what's going on in the troubled world of the limbic system of your brain. Eloise