Hi Valerie, I truly sympathize with you and know how maddening tinnitus is, best thing that specifically has worked 60% or more for me is to listen to relaxing piano music from my phone app, and rest of time, well I've got a ton of strategies. I've had moderate to severe hearing loss since birth in both ears and cannot hear w/o a hearing aid and most times i rely heavily on captions when watching TV, movie or listening on my phone. My story is I started wearing my first hearing aid in 1976, but never had any tinnitus until 2010. I did well with having just one aid but in 2008 i was able to get two aids (state of the art) and was so happy. But suddenly in 2010, while i was driving on the interstate my right ear started popping and it suddenly went totally deaf. I was devastated. Then the very next day the tinnitus started and since then it is 98% NON-STOP. I hear all sorts of weird noises, pulsing, drumming, screeching, voices, music, white noise, etc...and in my mind they are very loud (over a 100 decibels') usually is worst at night. I lose a lot of sleep and it drives me NUTS! I agree it has to be more than just a hearing loss problem !