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  1. rtlewis88

    Extremely Loud Thunder Clap — Like an Explosion > Tinnitus Spike

    Sucks... me too all of it (a mix of the worst of you all's experiences) - since last night. It followed 4 days of blissful baseline - following a two-weeker of moderate T levels. The new thunder-spike is the thing that's lingering the worst, though. On a good note, I was able to mow at a time...
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    Back Down to Baseline, Today, with Just a Little Jingle in My Left Ear — Yay!

    To whom it may concern: I'm still on the 2400mg of NAC, plus the usual 2400mg of GABA supplement; I wanted to give it some time before reporting back on things. I chose today because, it is like with my original post, "Back Down to Baseline, Today, with Just a Little Jingle in My Left Ear —...
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    I Was Hoping for an Opinion About Being Caught Up in a New Gun-Shooting Incident...

    Yeh, as time passes, it all just seems like an overblown thing, with the noise... until the next unexpected burst of goodies. I really appreciate the candor, and depths you went through to get your point across; it takes that with us T-heads a lot of times. You make more sense than I deserve...
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    I Was Hoping for an Opinion About Being Caught Up in a New Gun-Shooting Incident...

    @Nonna , exactly! You're one of the very few who get that...
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    I Was Hoping for an Opinion About Being Caught Up in a New Gun-Shooting Incident...

    Hah, @Ken219 ,I doubt it - they're a youth-gang, with little guidance, I'm pretty sure. I too have wondered that same thing, a little, though...
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    Gunshot Went Off Near Me Today — Please Help Me Sort This Out...

    Yep, all of that... A lot of helpful member are advising me to move or make a truce with the thugs - but the setting up of their target range, 50 feet from my property line, is likely already retaliation for me calling the cops two years ago - I can't risk getting killed. They rack up three...
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    I Was Hoping for an Opinion About Being Caught Up in a New Gun-Shooting Incident...

    Thanks, @Laurie1961 , I'm checking them out!
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    I Was Hoping for an Opinion About Being Caught Up in a New Gun-Shooting Incident...

    Thanks @RichardGuy , I wish I could - but that would be even more dangerous... and useless, in this rare case. I have no choice but to sell, but that will be hard. We live in a mostly rural environment, and there is no 'hood' for at least 30 miles. It is just that this gang is buying up the...
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    I Was Hoping for an Opinion About Being Caught Up in a New Gun-Shooting Incident...

    Yep, it happened again... until I can move my family homestead, I still have to mow my lawn sometimes. This time, a barrage of some jerk's 9mm went off - where they target practice. It was about 125 feet away, this incident. For those who don't know, this is an elusive bunch of youths (notorious...
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    N-Acetylcysteine (NAC)

    I forgot to put this up here; as a series of dosing instructions appear in this article. Moreover, I've been familiar with this (below, listed) limit for close to a week - I saw it on three peer-reviewed journal articles, earlier in the week, when I was trying to determine all that. I have...
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    Back Down to Baseline, Today, with Just a Little Jingle in My Left Ear — Yay!

    @gav01 & @Bill Bauer I forgot to put this up here; as a series of dosing instructions appear in this article. Moreover, I've been familiar with this limit for close to a week - I saw it on three peer-reviewed journal articles, earlier in the week, when I was trying to determine all that. I...
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    Back Down to Baseline, Today, with Just a Little Jingle in My Left Ear — Yay!

    Thanks, @coffee_girl & @GSC - we'll see how it goes, but so-far-so-good!
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    N-Acetylcysteine (NAC)

    @dayma, this for new applications, not what we usually take it for. Moreover, this is critical info, as it addresses something that may prevent suicides and other problems. It is not anecdotal, it is peer reviewed, and part of my university PhD research - I am studying to be a Psychologist.
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    N-Acetylcysteine (NAC)

    Some of us find NAC useful for mitigating trauma, etc., but it furthermore seems undisputed that NAC reduces oxidative stress and neuroinflammation, plus some other useful things. Hence, in an attempt to mitigate our tendency to present imbalances in our excitatory/inhibitory systems - due to...
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    Parents Won’t Take Me to a Doctor: Ear Ringing for 8 Days

    This is good advice; I have certainly had to do it. This link, below, is also on our site - and it is short and to the point. Show this 1 min 16 sec video to anyone who may play a role in the concepts @Bill Bauer is talking to you about. You are incredibly sharp, @weab00 , and you are doing...
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    Back Down to Baseline, Today, with Just a Little Jingle in My Left Ear — Yay!

    Just wanted to share that, last night, I was starting to wonder if I was at a 'new normal' - not an ideal sort of normal, mind you, but I figure it is what it is... And then... baseline this morning - wow! I want you to know it is highly likely you will go back to your old baseline again - we...
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    Gunshot Went Off Near Me Today — Please Help Me Sort This Out...

    Wouldn't that be nice... well, it would seem these brilliant fellas are primarily trying to show all the other geniuses in the hood that their cannon(s) is bigger. Versus the more civilized scenario you speak of. Also, I live 7/10ths of a mile from this... "COLUMBIA, SC The South Carolina...
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    Best Tinnitus Advice in One Sentence/Tweet

    Or... Together, we can make it, and even brake it! #TinnitusUniteUs
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    Best Tinnitus Advice in One Sentence/Tweet

    I'm your new app, Tinnitus. I can tell you when anything is out of whack with your body. Volume control under development. #tinnitushealthy
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    I'm Depressed and Thinking About Suicide but...

    @PeteJ , have you done a combo of melatonin and GABA supplement, at bedtime, or anything to both sooth the T a little, and get groggy enough to doze off? I apologize for being redundant if you have covered that already. You need to get zen, somehow, before you can start getting hold of the...
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    Going to a Concert with Tinnitus — Best Advice?

    You must not go; my T&H was caused by concerts. If you you were a diabetic, who had unstable sugar levels... you could not eat 2 whole chocolate cakes without going into a diabetic coma... same difference. 2 hours @ 103 db is like doing the same thing. Please do not go!
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    My New Avatar Is Annoying, I'm Thinking...?

    Okay, I finally got my usual avatar going... it was originally 248.2 KiB, and the site only allowed me 150 KiB. However, I found that if I go to my gmail account - and crop the original gif, it trims this one down to 67.5 KiB. Excellent! I pondered a solution for hours... tried this trick, to...
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    My New Avatar Is Annoying, I'm Thinking...?

    Okay, so far, is seems it is kind of annoying but in a tolerable kind of way... sort of like baseline... I'll wait for little more, definitive, input; I don't want to have something up there that bothers people - but at the same time, you should probably get a since of my true, somewhat...
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    My New Avatar Is Annoying, I'm Thinking...?

    My new avatar is annoying I'm thinking... ? Yes, No?
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    N-Acetylcysteine (NAC)

    Thanks, @vttbx , I'm checking out the info you provided. Does that oxidization condition cause the rot smell they say is 'normal?'
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    Tinnitus Research Initiative (TRI) 2019 Conference

    Sending peace and good vibes your way, @Hazel; thank you tremendously for giving so much of yourself to our cause!
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    Gunshot, Should I Worry?

    I used to love to watch all the war films, from the silver screen all the way to Platoon. Hence, I can say it sounds, and feels, pretty much like the old theaters that had... "Sensurround" systems back in the 70s. Or... something like modern 'thumping,' but with plenty more high frequency joy...
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    Gunshot, Should I Worry?

    @Digital Doc, I surely have noticed, during the years since the T & H got crabby, that humans are absurdly noisy for no good reason. I guess they are stimulated in some manner which heightens the experience, of whatever it is they are engaged in. Now crows and, dogs and several other non-human...
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    Gunshot, Should I Worry?

    Here is a peer reviewed study on this query - for further interest... Results "Starter pistols produce peak SPLs above 140 dB. The numbers of MPEs are as few as five for the .22-caliber starter pistol, and somewhat higher (≤25) for the .32-caliber pistol." Conclusion "The impulsive sounds...
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    N-Acetylcysteine (NAC)

    Thanks for directing my attention to this post @Artazanasss , I looked for this precise info before I posted my query. It helped confirm that I was doing it right... well, on the high end of right. The NAC isn't really bothering me in the ways it can - just a tad. You're awesome!
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    Gunshot Went Off Near Me Today — Please Help Me Sort This Out...

    Hi PortalNaut, Thanks for checking in! @PortalNaut said: Too bad they don't make it clear about meters or feet. By the way, to find R2 for where the sound level is 95dbsl (safe we'll say), it's 1778.28 feet/meters! Yep... .33 miles or .54 km - versus - 1.1 miles or 1.7 km is what this...
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    N-Acetylcysteine (NAC)

    @GSC, That's what I'll indeed do; you're a gift!
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    N-Acetylcysteine (NAC)

    @GSC, I was seeing that they gave the guinea pigs 1005 mg a day to save their ears - in a big study - and that's a lot for the little guys. It also mentioned that they suffered not toxicity at that dose - and their ears were 95+% saved. Thank you for finding all that; so you deduce 3 X 600mg...
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    N-Acetylcysteine (NAC)

    Hi @GSC, This is it. https://www.vitaminshoppe.com/p/nac-acetyl-l-cysteine-600-mg-50-capsules/vs-1294 It said, for maintenance, take one 600 mg capsule daily, so I went on ahead in took 2. But, only after reading on the web that 1200 mg approximated other acute situations (I couldn't locate...
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    Best Earmuffs for Mowing the Lawn?

    @rdz & @Sash, this one, here, went up from the $99 I paid a couple of months ago; but it is the one. Maybe because of Summer being right around the corner, supply & demand makes it higher - bummer. Where I live, the grass starts growing in March. I have an easier and quicker time, for all but...
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    N-Acetylcysteine (NAC)

    What is the NAC dosage for gunshot-ear (30 hours ago)? The stuff on the web varies from 1200 mg per day for 15 days, to 3000 mg per day for 10 days... and other dosages. I just got the bottle. I am, of course, talking about the noise from the blast, not a wound - lol.
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    Best Earmuffs for Mowing the Lawn?

    @Sash, I am a member, here, partly because I loved to mow my acre with hearing protection. The skull and vibration conductivity, once, when my tinnitus was already on the rise a little - messed me up worse than anything else ever has - despite hearing protection. Nevertheless, most contend the...
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    Gunshot Went Off Near Me Today — Please Help Me Sort This Out...

    @GSC ,@Digital Doc , @Skinjob , you all are truly wonderful; I'm going to get some better Mag and some NAC, I guess - just in case - but I suppose the thing is a little better... same but less - good, right? You all helped me though - sending lots of love and peace your way!
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    Gunshot Went Off Near Me Today — Please Help Me Sort This Out...

    What is that, @GSC , a way to tag them so they know about this - or am I supposed to let them know too? Thanks!
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    Gunshot Went Off Near Me Today — Please Help Me Sort This Out...

    That's what I was hoping; it really hasn't been that long since I could tolerate these out-of-nowhere area-gunshots - but now they make everything jump and spasm or something. But, so far as the raw potential for an ear to be physiologically altered by the single shot (versus the usual multiple...
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    Gunshot Went Off Near Me Today — Please Help Me Sort This Out...

    Thanks, @Skinjob , your genuine support and camaraderie shows though well, and it somehow helps the symptoms a little too. Bimodal Stimulation - targeting unruly nerve activity in the brain - that's where it's at! @Digital Doc , you finally have some diagnostic/symptomatic clarity to offer me -...
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    Gunshot Went Off Near Me Today — Please Help Me Sort This Out...

    Hi, Quick Background: I have tinnitus & hyperacusis, and as recommended on this site, have been trying to ween off of earplugs when they're unnecessary to have in - or in environments predictably below 80(ish) dB. Also, because mine seems to be reactive - if you subscribe to the term, I wanted...
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    I Twisted Earplug to Slowly Pull Out -> They Reverse-Pressured, and Went in Further: Pain & Spike

    @Digital Doc, thanks for checking in, and you couldn't more correct there (I forgot to mention the one exception, with the Mack's). The only problem with those Mack's ultra softs is they always sucked in too far - my tiny canals create some incredible pressure. I'm thinking I am going to have to...
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    I Twisted Earplug to Slowly Pull Out -> They Reverse-Pressured, and Went in Further: Pain & Spike

    Hi all, (please skip down to the paragraph starting with "Therefore" if you are only wanting to see my question) I have been a member for a few months, but this is my first post. I wanted to learn all I could from you wonderful people, so I replaced my normal hobby of building and maintaining...