Diesel

@Tara Lyons "does it get easier? " is a bit of a loaded question because I think everyone deal with it differently. Or like covid there are different tinnitus variants. Lol. Either way. At least for myself. Getting easier just meant I have become somewhat emotionally numb. Of course there are plenty of moments of weakness and I personally stay on a mild antidepressant so maybe that helps.

@Diesel glad you are doing well. I come back and check in every now and then and look for people who were here when mine started in Oct 2020.

@twa.. we still running neck and neck girl. Good to see your getting on ok. One day at at a time. Keep it up!

Love this dudes music!

But he refuses to use hearing aids.

Heavy man. Heavy.

Balls of steel ! :))

Hey thanks for checking in! I’m good, just been keeping busy.

@Diesel it seems like the best medicine!

@Diesel when I’m using power tools, I double protect - ear plugs and over ear protection, plus breaks. I’ve never had an issue. I have been stupid a fair few times and started the tools/machines without protection, simply because I’ve forgotten. Still been okay though. :)

@Steph1710 my plan includes double protection as well and spreading the work across a few days to not “overdo it” accidentally. Good to read that you’ve been issue free; def helps put my mind at ease.

@Diesel how are the home projects going?

Living life is awesome

@Deamon22, I thought about foam plugs, and brought a set of black ones. I find they’re good when it’s noisy and people are talking over loud music, but really hard to hear when it isn’t.

@Diesel Yes, sometimes it can get a bit hard to understand, but mostly I get by. However I should try to buy a few black foam earplugs, they should be even harder to spot right?

I hear them everywhere can't see them tho

Yeah, they’re all in my head!

They are a normal part of summer where I live. I've read on another website that the brood X cicadas this year are so loud that earplugs don't block much of the sound.

Michael from Ontario, Canada, noise-induced hearing loss, worsened due to noise exposures, including a loud movie theater / MRI that finished him off, moderate to severe high frequency hearing loss, ski-slope audiogram, severe tinnitus (65-70 dB loud) and hyperacusis. What a GUY!

What did he say?

Big up Michael from Ontario. He was NOT holding back and I am 100% here for it.

Link?

@aot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av2U9zjFEGA&t=1s

We need a pic!

I just use my earmuffs to conceal my earplugs :)

I hope all is well(ish).

What kind of ear plugs and what NRR level of protection do you use?

I'm finding it too difficult to wear my westone custom ear plugs out anymore. The ringing is just too damn loud with them in. I'm using earaser plugs most of the time now as they let more sound through, and I can hear people talk better. Always worried they aren't enough to protect me though.

You should respond with "huh". Lol

@Sayeed I usually go for something like, "No thanks, I'm not hungry."

@Sayeed that made me laugh! :-D

@Diesel I guess on the bright side at least they ask. No one in my family asks, they just try to act like everything is normal.

Tool used to be my jam, particularly for working out. My favorite song is probably Parabola.

Yeah, Tool Army all the way . Fear Inoculum contains some masterpieces (Descending, 7empest). The only problem is that freaking "eeeeeeee" they choose to put on every track .
Sorry bad day = bad jokes.

Saw tool live on March 9th the day before the pandy hit with my boyfriend who had seen them 6 times. Absolutely love tool. They have literally been a tool in my healing. This was before T. Also saw author and punisher which was CRAZY.

no sore arm or anything? good it went ok!

It was way less sore than the first 1. I guess I forgot about that, it cleared on the first day.

Also, submit the comments form re: living with SNHL/Tinnitus/Hyperacusis/whatever else. I couldn't think of a better place to get our conditions in front of the FDA and all of these therapeutic companies.

Yeahhh!!!! Plant it up!!!!

Glad you are doing well!

I remember reading that noise induced hearing loss/tinnitus has a higher Synaptopathy factor than hair cell loss, so maybe Synaptopathy drugs can help NIHL people the most?

Honestly put me to sleep until these treatments are out lol

I woke up with vertigo 5 days after the 1st vaccine, resolved in one day. I woke up with vertigo 13 days after the 2nd vaccine. I'm on day 16 of vertigo/dizziness, feeling much better though.

@twa I am glad to read that you're feeling better. I have been thinking of you lately. Sending you good thoughts right now.

@Diesel, thanks so much for the kind words and good thoughts. I appreciate the support.(in my Southern drawl):-D

Oh! What do you think I sound like?

@Steph1710 - you obviously sound like Carol Cleveland, since Monty Python is my entire frame of reference for English voices and personalities. ;)

@Shelbylynn - How they write, and what their little profile thumbnail says.

@aot - A typical 20-year old midwesterner

@Steph1710 - Chloe Veitch

"Eh, your life already sucks enough. NEXT."

@Zugzug, hope all goes well. Mine is 5/7, first thing in the morning. I hope I make it through work. Already got some trash movies queued up on Netflix for the weekend recovery.

@Diesel, glad you are doing well.

Take care, hydrate, eat well and rest. Both my reactions were at 5 and 10 days after the vaccine.

@twa so far, doing things normally as possible. Decent diet, normal sleep. I'll check back in at Week 2.

Just got mine today! I’m nervous about what could happen but I know it will probably be ok. Your case comforts me :)

I think of "reactive" as quick both in starting and stopping, so it overlays sounds and fades as soon as the triggering sound ends. But it can have varying ramp-up and ramp-down speeds, from instantaneous to several seconds. That's my take, based on experience.

@Keith Handy, Ok, I've experienced this description of reactivity early on with my T/H. This description seems to be much more rare now that I'm 2+ years in. What I experienced last night was like a spike at a certain frequency (a scream) but without spiking the normal T I experience. Really wild, don't know if it has an official name.

I've been getting insane fleeting low, medium, high T lately too that sticks for minutes.Been taking more ginko lately....

keep us posted out to 2 weeks!