Recent content by PingoJack

I use a kind of plastic plugs used for avoiding water in the ear while swimming. It also dampens sound but not as much as the foam plugs. They are also reusable. My experience is that I feel a lot more calm with plugs when I go by tram, some noisy buses, or trains and definitely airplanes. My...

Love your story Mick! It's so close to my own experience. I had a sudden set back about a month ago by loud noise exposure and reading your story now reminded me that habituation can work wonders. My habituation time gets shorter every time this happens. It started out several years ago with a...

I have a phobia towards loud noise and I have had it as long as I can remember, long before I knew about T or any other hearing disorders. Eastern and New Years fire works was a nightmare to me as a kid, as a well as playing "cowboys and indians" with cap guns. In a weird sense, I may be...

Hej Anna! I am Swedish too so pardon my English :) My T was also introduced during my unversity studies, right before I was about to begin my B.Sc thesis. The thesis was mostly practical so I managed. The blow came during my master studies. I could hardly open a text book during that year. I...

I like to travel, draw and read. I took the opportunity to do a lot of traveling during my doctoral studies, which where in the Earth sciences. Favorite places so far is Death Valley and Svalbard, places of extremes. I have been to Svalbard many times spending weeks hiking the glaciers, vast...

Hi Louise! I read somewhere at this forum (forgot where) about a jump in T and how it lowered to a higher "platform". It was a very good description about what I have just experienced. The jumps is however not very high, instead its very gradual, but to another platform of a little bit more...

Hi! Fish: Thanks! Your thoughts about "what if" is something I had a hard time with at the onset of my T. I was angry about the lack of information about it. I had heard about hearing loss, but never about T. I could not understand the lack of information when I realized that it is such a...

I have low frequency humming tone in my right ear that is not constant. There is a slight shift in the more high pitched sound in my left as well, but not as pronounced. I did a test in my bath tub. I went under water, and when I started hearing my heart beat it seemed like the shift in the T...

Dear all, I've had T since 12 years. Ironically, I found out after reading a magazine article about a T sufferer. It was completely new to me and I remember my thoughts back then about the horror it must be to live with that sound every awakened minute of the day (and night). I drew the wrong...