Inside your inner ear is a tiny structure called the cochlea. It's lined with thousands of microscopic hair cells whose only job is to detect sound and convert it into signals your brain can read.
When those hair cells get damaged — through age, noise exposure, or inflammation — they don't go silent.
They misfire.
They send random electrical signals to your brain with no real sound present. Your brain reads those signals the only way it knows how — as sound.
That is the ringing. A false signal generated inside your own nervous system.
This is why white noise doesn't fix it. You can't drown out something that's coming from inside.
This is why supplements don't fix it. They can't reach a misfiring nerve and stop it.
This is why hearing aids don't fix it. They amplify external sound. The ringing isn't external.
Every solution you've tried was aimed at the symptom. Not the source.