Recent content by Marc22

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    Facing a Tough Decision: Should I Stay or Move Due to Nearby Construction and Noise Concerns?

    GOOD NEWS! GOOD NEWS!! Here is some positive news about my situation with the construction site. Since work began in early July, I have not heard any noise from it at all! Nor have I heard anything from another smaller site that has been redoing the steps of our City Hall right next to it. So...
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    Facing a Tough Decision: Should I Stay or Move Due to Nearby Construction and Noise Concerns?

    @Meyer37: Thanks for your reply, and thanks for suggesting Airbnb. I’ll look into that. Thanks also for suggesting the 3M Peltor earmuffs, but the ones I use, Howard Leight by Honeywell, are fine. I’m a bit divided between protecting my ears and not overprotecting. Sometimes I wear them at...
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    Facing a Tough Decision: Should I Stay or Move Due to Nearby Construction and Noise Concerns?

    Well, folks, I’ve decided to renew my lease and stay where I am. So I may or may not be exposed to a lot of noise starting in August, probably varying in intensity depending on the phases of construction. From what I’ve heard, the beginning might be the worst because of something called...
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    Facing a Tough Decision: Should I Stay or Move Due to Nearby Construction and Noise Concerns?

    Hi again, I would like to share what happened to me last summer and fall, even if it is not directly related to my current dilemma. At that time, starting in the spring, my hyperacusis got much worse over the summer after 29 years of it being relatively moderate. I posted about that. But what...
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    Facing a Tough Decision: Should I Stay or Move Due to Nearby Construction and Noise Concerns?

    Thanks, @ECP, for your suggestions. I have to decide whether to renew my lease by next Tuesday. If I choose not to renew, I would not need to move out until next October, which marks the start and end of the annual rental period. As you probably know, notices to renew or not are typically...
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    Need Assistance: The Hyperacusis Memorial

    Were all these deaths caused by suicide?
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    Facing a Tough Decision: Should I Stay or Move Due to Nearby Construction and Noise Concerns?

    Hi everybody, I am facing a very agonizing dilemma: whether I should stay in the place I have lived for the past five years or move out. The possible reason for moving is that about 200 yards from me, a new building is being constructed — more specifically, a new recreation center for the...
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    Dealing with People Who Don't Care About Your Hyperacusis

    Hi. I have been living in an apartment building for just over 3 years. It's relatively quiet most of the time around here, but there are lawnmowers going around and other work on the building regularly. Ordinary, necessary stuff like that. Once in a while, I ask the 2 janitors (a couple) how...
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    Poll: Do You Have Hyperacusis without Tinnitus?

    To be more precise, I have little to no tinnitus. After my noise trauma, I started with worrisome tinnitus, then the hyperacusis appeared 2 months later. Since then, 24 years, I have never been really bothered by tinnitus luckily! Marco
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    Benzodiazepine Withdrawal — SEVERE Hyperacusis

    Hi Benzomom: Sorry to hear you are still sufferring. Ear wise I am doing pretty good, and I just moved out of an apartment I was sharing with a psycho. Immensely relieved!! All of you with stable and healthy friends and families, count your blessings! Because I ain't got any support... Marco
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    Completely Recovered from My Hyperacusis and Chronic Ear Pain

    It is nice to know that a small minority of people with hyperacusis can fully recover like yonkapin has. But that is rare. So any of you that are new to hyperacusis, you can improve but you will probably never recover fully. I have had it for 24 years and expect to die this way. There was a...
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    Hyperacusis Was Improving — Then a Door Slammed Beside Me and Symptoms Are Now Back Worse

    OK Lionel, please be very careful. This hyperacusis is serious business. Marco
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    Hyperacusis Was Improving — Then a Door Slammed Beside Me and Symptoms Are Now Back Worse

    BENZOMOM: Let me clarify my suggestion for benzo use for hyperacusis. I only used them when I was in a bad setback, to get a bit of relief. But during the time of the setback, I would use them almost everyday. Then when the setback would go naturally away, which sometimes took months, I would...
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    Hyperacusis Was Improving — Then a Door Slammed Beside Me and Symptoms Are Now Back Worse

    Here is what Dan Malcore of the Hyperacusis Network has to say about the possible degrees of recovery for those with hyperacusis. He has more than 25 years experience dealing with hundreds of people with hyperacusis: "I think the retraining TRT is the best thing we have right now. It is a...