Foamearplugssuck

YAY!! I miss blasting music :3

Hyperacusis sucks. Idle trucks with their engines running sounded like that for me too. Maybe they still do.

Yeah it’s the fan going into hyperdrive from the heat lol

MacBook Pro user. I feel your pain. Moving to an M1 processor once I get a new job.

I don’t know what brand mine are, but I took them apart and stitched duvets in between the layers, they block out sound pretty well (for curtains).

Try and get a blackout curtain rod as well. They curve around the window so the curtain touches the wall.

Is it loud from the environmental sounds outside, impulse sounds from outside, or just generally echoing and such inside?

@kingsfan external/impulse sounds. construction, sirens, people blasting music, etc. plus my fridge humming in my apartment 24/7

They're even louder in downtown city areas because the way the buildings echo everything. Where I live it isn't too bad unless you're outside/next to it or downtown.

@Shelbylynn oh that's interesting! didnt know that. I live downtown as well which probably explains it....

@Foamearplugssuck how did it go? Hope the ears are okay? Kids are loud.

@Steph1710 thanks! my cousin is 21 lol so not a kid. It was my first social interaction since getting H and I was in panic mode. ears seem to be relatively fine for now.

From my experience, yes.

I agree with @aura. Weather definitely changes mine.

@Wrfortiscue makes sense. thanks for the tip, logs sound like a good idea.

@Franci003 thank you <3

My experience, I got way worse when I was protecting all the time. But always have protection on me when things could possible get noisy. Bc you don’t want a set back. Something I had to kid through the uncomfortable feeling of things seeming loud. But as long as I knew they were under 80dbs I pushed through them. And each day it got better.

Believe it or not sometimes it's actually from the over protection I get all kinds of pains from my ear protections even later don't think too much into it it'll just hold you back and make you ill. You'll get through this and you'll get better

I've referred several doctors, therapists and an entire court of law, to TT, just to give them an idea of how much tinnitus ISN'T what they imagine it is.

Everyone I know it doesn't bother them. So they think everyone is the same

Sounds feasible

I feel your pain. I feel like I live in the leaf blower capital of the world.

Reminds of an old ICP song haha

Yeah, it's that time of the year again, sigh...

I change that Same thought on a daily basis

I’m working with an audiologist with treble health. She has helped severe cases and has 15 years experience. I told her I’m going to document my journey. She understands I react to a lot of things and will take it slow

Btw year here no improvement

lol

Like a French fry. This actually made me laugh out loud.

Or being a goober and listening to super load music like myself. My mother told me something similar, its easier to say than actually do. Self pity/loathing can be addictive I think.

@ThomasF yeah I agree. It's very easy to victimize yourself with this condition. truth is though, that lots of people abuse their ears on a daily basis and don't get tinnitus. none of us choose to have a shitty auditory system/brain.

@ZFire you're a better man than I

You’re still cool and alright in my book though

@ZFire appreciate that

Social media is an illusion for the most part. It tends to give this impression that everyone but you is having so much fun 24/7, but in reality that’s far from the truth. No one is having that much fun. I always say this, If you knew how much everyone else was faking it, you wouldn’t want to join them in the first place.

@ZFire wise words

I hear ya man, music was my lifeblood and every show I gotta pass up because of this shit is a kick in the gut. I got off social media as well for the same reason. But something’s gotta give, I have hope we will get our lives back someday, somehow!

Don't you just hate it that all devices have the most piercing beeps that man could ever invent... Voicemail, POS's, barcode readers etc. Even before all ear shit, they seemed just so unnecessarily loud.

It’s like getting hearing issues gave us super Sonic hearing that detects all annoying sounds no one else bothers to deal with

@Shelbylynn right and then when you complain about it people give you the weirdest look!

same! my life has been on hold since this got so bad... fuckk , much love bro! I am hoping we get relief soon!

What kind of music do you like making?

House and techno I’m gonna guess

@ZFire haha I was starting to dabble in house and uk garage before I got H. I usually make electronic/synth pop stuff. Also used to make boom bap beats too lol

Some good news that I can share from observations on this site is that a few of our fellow members are venturing to try out the Hough institutes experimental drug intended to repair damaged hearing. That's a step forward in my eyes regardless of what the outcome could be.

Isn't this the truth. I live in the middle of nowhere. But still can't just sit outside and relax without earplugs

I never realised before I got T/H how loud birds are!

Good, the booster itself can cause ear damage.

@Stacken77 lmaoooo this make me me laugh out loud

@Damocles lol if Pawel ever did announce his presence on here he would get cyberbullied on sight, and I would def be joining in

@Stacken77 https://youtu.be/6Ejga4kJUts?t=94