I have tinnitus, sometimes worse than others, but there is always a buzzing in the background.
I'm nearly deaf in my left ear due to having someone fire a rifle with the muzzle within 12" from my ear.
Ouch. A "friend" did that to me once because a deer ran out in front of us. I know what that's like.
The guy who fired the rifle close to my left ear was a roommate at a house that I rented in Manhattan, KS, in 1983/84. We were hunting coyotes with our other roommate near White City, KS, and jump a coyote while headed to the spot where we would split up up along a canyon rim. The coyote ran to our right and Bill, who was a lefty, decided to shoot at it with the 222 barrel of his Savage 24V combination gun. He didn't get the coyote, but the muzzle blast sure got me.
