Recent content by Maruashen

I hope you’re doing better, @Nes. From my own experience over the past year, I’ve learned that protection is not a good option for normal everyday sounds. However, if you’re experiencing symptoms like the ones you mentioned, I would be very careful and take things very slowly. Start with basic...

I think @Sonia554 is very right in his or her answer, but sometimes when you’re down the rabbit hole, it’s hard to tell yourself “it’s fine,” especially when you’ve recently had damage from something you maybe thought was safe. When I briefly googled how loud a chainsaw can be, it seems it can...

It’s hard to know, right? I feel the same way. I don’t know whether my hyperacusis comes from the actual damage itself or from overprotection. When something happens, like a loud sound, I try not to take a step back in my habituation progress. I try to stay at the same level, relax for a set...

I can summarize what I have learned quite briefly. It is always good to know, in case someone reads this in the future. Most decibel meters use either FAST or SLOW measurements, like I mentioned earlier. These are great for measuring things like a concert, standing next to a highway, or other...

Adding that mic isn’t that important. I’ve been running 2 different setups, and I’ve tested them simultaneously. One setup is an iPhone 12 Pro Max. I just installed the NIOSH SLM app, with no configurations made. The second setup is an iPhone XR with the mic you’re referring to, the Daytona...

Decibel X seems quite poor compared to NIOSH SLM for iPhones, based on what I have seen from my own research. It is much easier to properly calibrate a measurement app on phones where the hardware is known and consistent. That is why NIOSH SLM only exists on iPhones and not on Android devices...

Hey @Annina, how are you now? I wanted to check up on you and see if you've found any solutions that seem to work for you :) I hope everything is ok.

I think you will be fine. Maybe rest your ears for a couple of days, and I bet you are already doing that. Last year, a bus honked its horn when I was right in front of it while walking into a taxi, and it somehow did not make my tinnitus worse. Train horns can be loud, very loud, but the...

Like I mentioned earlier this year in this thread, this has happened to me a few times. I mainly remember hitting a doorframe once, hitting it twice with my watch, and hitting a door once. Yes, it is loud. After doing more research this year, I have also come to the conclusion that this is...

Thanks for sharing! It is tough to know what is really behind it all. I got my tinnitus from a loud noise, but my hyperacusis developed gradually over the following weeks, which makes me think it could also be related to mental health. And yes, tearing a square of paper from a toilet roll can...

Your tinnitus story sounds a lot like mine, and like many others. We somehow learn to habituate over the years, even though there are bumps along the way. It’s only been two weeks since your incident. That’s far too early to know if it’s permanent or what the future might look like, especially...

Hi Pete, To help calm you down, it seems that most of these encounters usually last only a few days to a week or so. We’re all in the same boat. It often feels like the reaction to the sound is even worse than any actual damage it might have caused, right? Sometimes I feel like my reaction to...