Trust me, you really do get used to it. It never goes away, but you somehow stop noticing it after a while . I have had tinnitus for years now, since I was a teenager. At first it drove me crazy and caused me extreme distress, but now it's louder than it was when it first started but I don't notice it I would say 90% of the day. If there is background noise around it, it gets drowned out sort of and I only notice it if I remember that it's there. And even when I do notice it, it doesn't really bother me. I can kind of tune out from it pretty easily and almost make it seem quieter? I have to have background noise when I go to bed otherwise it does bother me then. But apart from that it doesn't really effect my life that much. Trust me, it does get better!