Ok let me just clear one thing up? Does tinnitus make your hearing worse? I use to have extremely good hearing almost superhuman.. but my tinnitus has really gotten worse in the last year. Being 21, I do go to noisy places quite offen but i find and i always take my boots £3 earplugs. (I find that in clubs it actually makes people sound louder as it cuts down background noise in relation to people's voices.) do they cheap earplugs make things worse and should i get my tinnitus checked out? I am scared that if i do, i would have to declare it when i go for my next medical and that one is a major one including an audiogram.
p.s. i don't mind my tinnitus but it does stress me out if i start to believe that it is making me deaf and could lead to a loss of licence in years to come.