I have it in my left ear, got it after banging my head on the cupboard, and burst the eardrum, I had an operation, where they take a skin graft from the temple area and put it on the eardrum,but the whistling never went, I have also tried the zinc and that never worked, a homeopathic said anything with caffeine in makes it worse, and of course certain drinks,especially tonic water, my worse time is trying to get asleep, and its really difficult to try and ignore it, I had clock once that sent out ! pleasant noises to help you to get to sleep,but it got on my nerves after a while, and having read this topic it seems to have gone louder, lol.anyone learns anymore I would be very interested.