Recent content by Notch

40-60mg prednisone daily, in the morning. No need to taper off if using for less than a week.

In Australia and New Zealand, it's very straightforward; our ear protection is defined by SLC80 (Sound Level Conversion valid for 80 per cent of the wearers). It is the "difference between the measured C-weighted sound pressure level of the workplace noise outside the hearing protector and...

Doxlyamine succinate.

One Sleep Aid tablet (doxylamine succinate) knocks me out.

Great article on The Atlantic about it: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-trouble-with-dentistry/586039/

I'm so sorry to hear that mate, I know how you feel. It sucks when you are trying to do something right, like getting a check-up, and it turns into a nightmare like this. Here's hoping it gets better for you, and if not, hopefully a cure comes soon.

Yeah I will never let them use an ultrasonic scaler on me again. Your profile says you got tinnitus from a slap - did you then go to a dentist and have it worsen?

I got my tinnitus from a new dentist cleaning my wisdom teeth. It wasn't the noise, but the high frequency vibration which only those specific teeth seemed to bone-conduct straight to my cochlear. Unfortunately, I was tinnitus-naive and didn't stop him. Before this incident, I'd been to other...

From Neuromod's Phase I study: "The auditory stimulus was spectrally broad (wideband noise) and contained a high rate of temporal events (recording of rainfall) mixed with classical music (recordings of piano works by Erik Satie). The wideband sound stimulates a broad spectrum of auditory...

Silent gap test.

From the inventor of the Ototech/Otolith device, Sam Owen: "Q4: Unfortunately our research to date has shown that it's almost an identical vibration that's therapeutic for VR and motion sickness as well as more serious conditions of the vestibular system. That's why we're not rushing to the...

EUR 250.

When I was struggling to sleep, I found doxylamine succinate (Sleep Aid) tablets really helped.

I don't think they were allowed to keep the device. They got 12 weeks of use and then were monitored for 12 months.

I don’t know of any NC headphones with a neck band, but you could get earmuffs with a neck band and wear earphones under them.