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How annoying it must be to go to someone who is supposed to be helping you with your ears, but instead makes you worse with the tests they do. I went to an ENT once about my ears and he wanted to microsuction my ears. I ran out of the place as fast as I could and will not be going back to any...

Yeah those constructing sites can be loud and annoying for ear problems. I recently went by one and it gave me a spike. I went back to check with sound meter because that's what I do sometimes and it was 80 decibels across the road but that was with those big foundation drill equipment that...

I know a few people with tinnitus and nobody has got rid of it and no doctor has ever told me it can go away. Yet people do say it has gone away for them so it must be possible, but I think it's not the norm. If it gets to the stage where you only hear it when it's fairly quiet, you are doing...

im wondering if its something to do with construction, its a noisy job even with ear protection, thats what i would be wondering if i was in your position

your T is only 3 months old, you are right to be very cautious with it, if we believe all the info your improvement if u mind it occurs within a year. Mine came mostly within the first 3 months but i did notice an improvement up to a yr, but smaller as time went by, after that, well spikes...

Even without ear plug's i would say a temp spike at worst for most people I'm almost totally sick and tired of monitoring spikes and adapting behaviour as a result of them until they recede. I get spiked all the time, today, angle grinder caught with shopping trolley couldnt even plug ears...

If only that were the case with my ears! wax never comes out on it's own and even with oil it just delays the inevitable blockage's. when i do find a solution that seems to work well, it may be ear toxic, even putting in drops every second week with oil has not stopped my left ear from filling...

I just used waxsol and u got me worried with this statement! I did some googling and came up with two totally contrasting studies! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23092833/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22101097/ https://www.dizziness-and-balance.com/disorders/bilat/ototoxic_drops.htm So...

I stick foam plugs in the shower and with a hair dryer and hoover, just because I feel I am in some sort of "healing" phase and am being cautious, even tho they say the inner ear doesn't heal, but something happens in there to quite a few people with t reductions in volume and even the odd one...

I think a lot of people with mild t have at some point experienced louder t (spikes, t at onset etc) and thank the lucky stars a lot for the reduction in volume. After the t has reduced I do think you can become complacent and forget how bad louder t really is though. I can still hear my t...

Visit a respiratory ward in a hospital and look at the people gasping for breath hooked up to ventilators, it may help with your t, or may not

No I don't think t changes are a sign of worsening hearing (but small chance they could be). But the only way to prove this to yourself is to get fairly regular ear tests and compare them after t changes. If your playing in a band you don't want to end up causing your t to become worse through...

Just from random thoughts on it, maybe over sensitive hair cells or some nerve stems that have been changed/damaged in some way and don't react as they should do. Maybe parallel it to an old back injury that you know that if you do certain things it will cause pain/discomfort which will calm...

I have had a dpoae test done, it has shown that in my left ear emissions are normal up to 4kHz but above that (or close to 5kHz) they disappear. From an amateurs point of view I am assuming that for those frequencies my hair cells are dead, not responding or something along those lines. Is this...

Well my t can spike from sounds at lot less than 80 db. I just recently used a frequency generator to find my t frequency and my t spiked up quite loud for a few days even tho it was very low. So maybe certain sound will spike your t even when wearing ear protection

Sounds like you have quite a bit of hearing loss, maybe the hearing aid and masker will do the trick for you. I know it has for some people, a relative of mine included. If the t stays as loud as it is then maybe you can take inspiration from other members on here who deal with real loud t and...

Sounds like you are one of those t sufferers who has decided that they will not avoid noisy environments, brave soul. I cant say for sure as I do avoid noisy places but it sounds like it may be an accumulation of sound that has set it off and if you back off noise for a while, in theory, all...

A few minute spike doesn't sound too bad to me, mine last for a few days. I stick ear plugs in the shower and hair dryer and try to avoid all loud or loudish noise, now im wondering if all this noise avoiding is really the best way to go, maybe our over sensitive hair cells (guess here) need...

@Dr. Nagler Goodluck hopefully this bolt out of the blue will soon revert to previous levels or else you will habituate to the new level, which must really be loud considering the old levels were too

Good luck with the break, I think it can help to reduce or stop exposure to all T related stuff and not have the brain obsess too much over it, I think it has helped me a bit, or I have imagined it has :p oh yeah and btw you developed t the day before I did!! Mine was the Saturday, you could...

@RoyZ yes it was bass for a subwoofer that damaged my hearing, will organise a hearing test sometime in the next 2 weeks, im sure there must be some hearing damage, even though I think I have regained some hearing sharpness since the beginning but not all. T is more or less the same though, I...

@RoyZ thanks for the info, that's interesting the way your t varies so much day to day, from gone/almost gone to quite loud (is it noise exposure related?). I have a more or less constant "powerline" type of sound in my left ear with a higher pictched "crickets" tones in my right, sort of going...

@RoyZ Could I ask when you say you now have super low t after hbot, do you mean that your t is now so low that you cannot hear it during daytime activities even if you look for it or you can now hear it but its easy to ignore? If you plug your ears can you clearly hear it and has the tone...

I really don't think that type of noise is that damaging to ears, it doesn't usually spike up too much and is a more or less a constant thing which are ears can adjust to, but then again if you believe the advice even this noise can eventually affect hearing so it would be no harm to pop on some...

So many people report t gets better with time but so few report it going for good, so it improves and improves with time and then just stops improving at some point and refuses to disappear completely, I wonder about the mechanics of it all and I cant help feeling that the experts, ENTS really...

Not being smart but those random ear aches are probably related to your over the top noise exposure in that really loud nightclub that caused all of your friends ears to ring! I hope it all settles down for you in the coming weeks, avoid clubs for a while tho or maybe forever

My hoover definitely needs to be replaced, smart phone says its 80 decibels but to me it sounds like 90. I would not want to be standing next to it for 8 hours. I don't think there is one fit for all ears, some ears are more sensitive etc, I think the right advice as we get to know our t ears it...

@Geo Yeah that doesn't sound like anxiety then, you are a t vet by this stage. All you can do is protect your ears as best you can and hope for the best I guess, like a lot of us, we have to live in some type of hope. Its clear that t goes down for quite a lot of people but for some bizarre...

@geg1992 your gf complaining bout noises is her polite way of saying you snore!! just joking

I have a feeling that if I was exposed to 85 db for eight hours straight I would be in a psych ward!! Maybe its better to think of t ears as compromised and that these thresholds that apply to normal ears are lowered for t affected ears. This is not it seems the common view among people who work...

...always wondered about spikes and what longterm affect, if any they have, but they seem to be unavoidable for most people, unless you live like a hermit. T is bad enough and but im "hopeful" even i could get used to a constant sound eventually, but this constantly changing s*it, im not sure at all

Ive had t for nearly 3 months and havnt given up hope of it going. I don't think I will until the 1 year mark passes. Id say its way too early for you to say this will never go away. Eat well, rest well etc, mind the ears and hope for the best. I would be quite optimistic if I were you.

...too noise but not to that level. What would I do in this situation? hhhmmm, if I was getting spikes from any little thing I would be majorly pi**ed but I would run through what the general advice is. Usually, and I mean usually, sounds below a certain level, ie, most everyday sounds wont...

Sounds like you are doing pretty good, getting your sleep at night im sure is helping a lot. The t must not be overly playing on your mind I can only assume. You are also very young and if you continue to take good care of your hearing there seems to be a decent shot it will fade down further.

It seems to work well for most things, but obviously not too good with t There are other private eye and ear places too but you would have to pay 150 euro just to talk to one of those guys but im thinking the service would be better, learned a bit of a lesson with the drop in service, its...

So i eventually got a letter about my appointment to see an ENT. I have been classed as "Routine" and will have to wait 9 months plus to see one on the public system. I wasnt bothered but did want to talk to someone whose job is EARS. But anyway. My left ear is reacting to sounds with a little...

Thats damn annoying having it return after all that time, im sure when you first heard it again you were like WTF, not you again! You want to enjoy your retirement years not have something like t dragging around after you. I hope it goes away again.

That's bad luck this had to happen to you. Im no expert but I get the same thing with my computer, my ears react to the fan whine and start to produce their own whine as well. Very strange. Yours sounds worse, reacting to a lot more sounds. AFAIK that's whats you say, hyperacusis and from what...

I think a lot if not most people (could be wrong) get those brief ear ringing episodes for 5 or so seconds at seemingly random times, in know I did, but just totally ignored them. If fact I thought they were quite amusing at the time. Not sure if they have any impact on what we are experiencing...

I get this now and then, sensitivity seems a bit muffled and hearing a bit dull, its normally linked to a louder than normal event for my ears but not something that would otherwise affect normal ears, so I don't worry too much about them as they clear up in a day or a few, so far anyway. I...

Im all ears when it comes to advice on sleep, when my t spikes my sleep gets way worse than it normally is, which is bad anyway. I think it does really come down to being relaxed about the t, letting your mind just wander lying in bed like it used to do pre t sleep time, no focus on t = better...

Go and be prepared for your next thread "I shouldn't have gone to that concert" :P If you have habituated to the t then there is no reason to be too depressed over it, and enjoy the songs from a sound system less than 85 decibels and so they say u should be ok Maybe you should "test" the t...

Hi IIlija, that's great your t in now just a hiss a lot of the time and you can mostly ignore it. I hope you will be posting this year sometime in the success stories about how it has gone completely!

t sure is a funny beast. I havnt noticed activity affect my t at all, just noise. I find a good brisk walk does a lot of good, if that spiked my t I would be a bit mad at that, as exercise is the natural way of feeling better. I notice your t dates back 12 years, I hope this is not something in...

Scratch that. I normally wouldn't like to respond to my own threads but i had to go to a certain shop over the weekend and that involved walking through a very busy indoor shopping centre. This would have been the loudest sceanario i would have been exposed to since my t started. I figured, its...

The technique is great, now im just waiting for you to adapt it to tell whatever part of me, brain or nervous system, that is causing me to wake multiple times a night since t onset :o

Terrible this has just come on for you. If your sleeping ok then that's a good sign id say. Hopefully that loud level also reduces with time. Yours sounds pretty loud by your post.

I used to assume high frequencies were more damaging until I did some low frequency damage and from my reading both are equally damaging, with low frequencies being able to pass through objects better and so potentially even more damaging. That bass is nice but beware. I don't think sound...

If I came to the conclusion it had a 50/50 or better chance of really helping I would be too tempted to take it..... (even thou i dont have the cash) anything to get rid of this noise, I want my sleep back

Since I blasted my ears with a sub-woofer late November I gave myself t and it continues today. I also noticed I lost some sharpness in my hearing, not any fullness or deafness like some report, just really a lack of clarity in certain situations, like trying to distinguish the source of a sound...

I hope its not the beer as i do like a beer now and then! But seriously beer only has a good effect on my t, in that i hear it a lot less, actually it can seem like i have no t at all. The next day i have a hangover and t, but the same level. Hope its just one of these annoying spikes and soon...

Basically i dont really like the idea of avoiding such environments as canteens etc in the hope it may help with a spontaneous resolution in the future, i just dont see how it can. But on the other hand the canteen did seem to spike my t so it got me wondering. Too much thinking about t can...

Thanks for your responses Dr Nagler. I got my T when i was setting up a home theatre system and stupidly thought the subwoofer (quite large 12inch woofer) wasn't working correctly so bent over it to see what was going on and suddenly a loud part of the blu ray kicked in with cannons etc and hey...

Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night my t seems very loud and its only when I fully wake up that it returns to my normal level, im not sure if my t is waking me up or if its a result of general anxiety that's causing sleep disruptions. General feeling is that t wont wake u up...

Is it hair cells or is it some type of nerve change? Would be nice if the body could take care of both of them :P

Is there any particular reason why say 85 decibels of conversation for a short period of time is safe for someone with recent T from noise damage other than that being definitely safe for normal ears? If i understand correctly the above sound shouldnt cause any damage to ears but im also...

As far as I know the only thing they can do is prescribe a course of steroids which can if done within a week or so help ears recover. Seems to work for some but definitely not all. Maybe you can get the name of these steroids and get a doc to give them to you? I've seen them mentioned on this...

Hard to say, sounds like it may be noise induced so you will need to mind you don't expose yourself to more loud noise and give your ears time to recover, turn down the tv and radio to moderate levels etc. Hopefully it will subside back to lower levels in a few weeks, fingers crossed. Maybe get...

Im no expert and wonder about these types of things myself, but I doubt things like a plate smashing, loud laugh etc will have any lasting effect on someones T. Its just not possible to wrap yourself in cotton wool and avoid all loud noise. Avoid building sites, close to motor bikes, loud...

Im trying to give myself the best chance of recovery from T caused by a loud speaker and so far I have noticed a slight reduction in the T intensity but nothing to give me hope it is on the way out though After eating lunch in the staff canteen I noticed it can get quite loud with people having...