Sorry that you are suffering as well Annie, I'm having a particularly bad day today. Mine is like the noise made from an old cassette tape or CVT TV, white noise.
6th nerve palsy sounds awful as well. It's amazing what human beings seem able to survive.
I do feel sad that I will never hear silence again, but then when I went ion the scary tinnitus forums and read lots of young people had this from noise trauma, that made me even sadder. Also it makes me want to pull ear phones out of young people's ears incase they get it. Perhaps younger people's clears up, I think in older people it can be associated with losing certain hearing frequencies and the brain tries to compensate, so we are stuck with it.
I'm going to have to get some needs for the anxiety it is causing, poor man must be sick if the sight if me.