What am I gonna do? Anyone with reactive tinnitus still listen to music?

[Alugo6340]

I was looking at the questions on quora and a whole bunch of answered the question "is life worth living without music?" and MOST people have said things like "without music, life is dull it's like a sky without trees and stars " or "music is good for the soul" or "I'd die without music ". Most people can't live without music and my tinnitus ruins music and tv for me. Hearing a whistling effect along with my music or watching tv and voices sounding robotic like the tinnitus is competing with it. A few people with reactive tinnitus have said they live an isolated lifestyle with no music and even watch tv with no sound but subtitles. I've watched movies with subtitles and that's not a problem for me but what is is going without movies with sound or music. I dont care about clubs or concerts or even movie theaters but I do care about traveling and restaurants. How can I do this with reactive tinnitus? How can I listen to music when music sounds distorted after 10 minutes of playing it? This has been going on 7 months now. Lorazepam helped a little but now my time with it is up. I still havent found the cause. I dont know what the ENT will do about the distortion. Without my hearing aid on, music still sounds a little distorted so it's my tinnitus and not my hearing aid causing it. I feel this is permanent and I'm only 23. I'm obese like 220 pounds. It might sound irrelevant but my dad wants me to excersise for a month or two to see if that makes a difference in the tinnitus or distortion. I was born with severe hearing loss but I've never had this distortion until after a cold back in November. Tinnitus got alot worse since then with new sounds and became reactive and hearing test shows in the same deafness as before. I didn't mention my cold to my last doctor a few months ago but I should have. I get a clicking noise everynight when I'm in bed like an intermittent clicking noise. I posted this before but I wonder if it's a loss cause at 7 months and I might be screwed with reactive tinnitus and distortion forever or if I get proper treatment maybe it can still improve alot over time? I wonder if people with reactive tinnitus can ever listen to music again? I hear hypercusis can take a couple years to go away but I'm not sure.

[Alugo6340]

Without the ringing competing music sounds like before but what I would need is to get rid of the reactive part.