Can you wear filtered ones? To let a slight bit of noise in? I've been to one restaurant with my 20db plugs in (popped them out to eat cause of occlusion effect) and was OK with that.
Yes, I have musicians ear plugs with 15 and 25 db filters as well as solid inserts.
I usually don’t pop them out to eat unless the chewing is super loud. Like something crunchy. Then I might pull them out of my ear a little bit. Unfortunately with the high frequency nature of my T, I still hear it even with my filtered air plugs in. Ugh!
@Forever hopeful sorry to hear that :( it's horrible that things become so much more complicated than they should be cause of the T. Do you friends know about your T in order not to be so loud?
@Strawberryblonde,
They do. They just have no idea how loud they are. But we were in a loud restaurant so I wore my ear plugs. I used the 25 dB filters. It actually ended up being OK.
@Nadia231, I have custom molded musicians earplugs. Had the ear molds done at my audiologist’s office. The ear plugs are made by Westone with Etymotic filters. I personally have 15 dB 25 dB and then a solid insert which brings it to about 33 dB. I think for just the molds it was almost $200. They came with my 15 dB inserts and my solid insert And then I bought my 25 db inserts that run about $100.
@Nadia231 I use the 25db Alpine pluggies for kids as I have small ear canals. Work quite well and block out a fair bit of noise. I paid 12 quid from amazon.
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