I hear it very infrequently, it comes maybe every couple of months, seemingly at random, and it will be a fairly loud eeeeeeeee ringing sound. Then it just fades away after a few seconds and I continue on, wondering what our alien overlords have uploaded into my skull this time.
Apparently a very slight case of tinnitus is just very common. Most people just don't get it diagnosed because it's not necessarily so bad that it is distracting.
Most of the academics I've heard discuss it go with the second pronunciation (soft "i" throughout) but it just looks to me like it should be a hard "i".
To my mind it would get the "hard" power from the downstream "u".
Also I've seen a presentation saying transcranial magnetic something or other can help reduce it. Basically you've got "phantom limb" symptoms for your damaged ear parts, and they were able to turn it off or down with magnets.
I’m just a dude from the USA and I use both pronunciations!
Tin-ite-us is my go to but I’m trying to get away from it. It makes it sound like it ends in “-itis” when I say it. This makes it sound like an inflammatory disease, which it isn’t necessarily.
Tinnit-us feels off to say, but it doesn’t imply the “-itis” part, so I’m going for it!
For mine, background noise helps. Silence sometimes feels deafening, but even something as simple as sighing can - for lack of a better word - recalibrate my brain to how soft the ringing is...but with nothing to compare it to, it seems to just get louder and louder.