My sympathies, Delbert. At least you're never alone with tinnitus and it's a great tool for checking one's plugs are in properly when the tinnitus is the loudest sound. Ah, the perils of yoof. I've recently moved away from musician plugs & onto these [url="http://www.ultimateear.com/Sales/squidgy.htm"]http://www.ultimateear.com/Sales/squidgy.htm[/url] - now I have no fear of further damage
Strangely enough, when tinnitus becomes really, really bad, they give you a high-powered hearing aid to enable you to overcome it.