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Hi @Gman have you experienced this? I pretty much wear plugs all the time and everywhere at the moment. Sometimes with muffs as well. Gotten to...
Is it possible to adjust to hyperacusis or is managing it the best we can do? I have been wearing earplugs a lot and it's gotten to the stage...
Woke up with an additional humming noise. Hate myself and the sneezer. What is the point
Anyone’s tinnitus worsen when exposed to noise from sneezing? Took my plugs out for a clean. The wife then sneezed loudly (about 4 feet away)....
Hello everyone, I am suffering a spike from an exposure to loud pipe noise. I am staying at a friends and removed my earplugs following dinner...
@Contrast I wear earplugs as muffs as I have noise induced tinnitus with mild hearing loss at high frequencies. I don’t want to make the T worse...
That is correct. Was cleaning my earplugs by a window facing the road and car went pasta in wet and I felt pain in R ear and a fullness. Also got...
Pain and fullness was caused by a passing car (when indoors with windows shut) and not wearing plugs or muffs. My tinnitus was caused by loud...
@Contrast not really noticed it before today (with pain) as I’ve been wearing plugs and earmuffs pretty solidly for months. Basically scared to...
Hi Michael, Thanks for getting in touch and answering my pained call. If someone has been overprotecting for months, in your opinion are sounds...
Someone, please please help me!
I usually wear earplugs and muffs when out and about. I have recently been wearing them to sleep as well as I’m sleeping at my family home which...
Yes. Not overly loud to many, but is in a city centre
I agree with @dpdx - nightclubs are truly awful environments whether one has tinnitus or not. I have been to a few post tinnitus onset and never...
Whilst an unhelpful generalisation is it not borne out of what Bam describes above? That most people are told that they have to get used to it by...
Thanks guys. Just looking into her eyes and hugging her and it breaks my heart. She isn’t in pain, but she’s sedate and tired and hanging on....
Got told today that my dog only has days to live (had her 9 years and she is like a sibling to me). All day my head has been all over the place....
I get this as well
Hi @GregCA I have no experience with these. Are they more effective than earmuffs? Less occlusion?
I agree. I’m just concerned that I’ve spiked and made things worse momentarily raising voice/shouting. Praying it settles
Thanks @Michael Leigh for your feedback and information. Whilst I understand in theory what you are saying and largely agree, I feel trapped...
Thanks @Alue I find the musicians earplugs to not be as bad as muffs. I have used the ACS range. Do you find the occlusion effect a problem?...
Just a quick post asking for some advice on wearing ear muffs. I have been wearing them a lot as my neighbour has building work going on next...
Hi guys, No, I didn't go in the end. I drove my wife to the show and had dinner with her beforehand, but missed it. She was ok with it and told...
thank you @glynis would you consider this type of show as too risky or too dangerous? Would you go?
Hello everyone, I have a dilemma. My wife and I have had tickets to see the 'League of Gentleman' live show at the Apollo in London since...
Hi guys, Does anyone have any views on the safety of running with earplugs in? I live near quite a few roads and do not want to run unprotected...
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I wake up and this new volume is here instantly raging away. It’s tsking me to a very dark place. I don’t want to die, but I can’t see how I...
Jesus man, that feels like hell. I've been trapped before when at foreign weddings; one of my friends once got married in France and told me that...
thanks man. Did you have protection? Anything you can do to limit the time of the spike?
Thanks Glynis, I had noise reductions plugs in, but I wear them so often and limit my time in these environments that maybe I was not used to it...
Thank you both, guys, for responding. I currently feel so sick and panicked and full or regret and remorse. what was I doing. My ears are now...
Hi guys, I am experiencing the big fear here wrought large. I visited a restaurant with several school friends I hadn't seen in sometime. The...
Not sure that advice helps with depression...
Agree and I’m not too fussed about them, but I mean just going out and doing things. Yesterday I didn’t attend any of those things and was...
Thanks Bill. I don’t see how I can engage in life again, even with protection
Hey bill, no fullness, but definite spiking. Hate this and the in laws for taking me out
Thanks bro @dpdx You struggle to sleep with spikes?
I hope so. Struggling to sleep with this noise. Had other exposures as well. Was driving along and the car was apparently 100db on certain road...
Thank you, Glynis, I will try. Just wish things weren’t so noisy. Concerned I’ve done some permanent damage here
Should this spike settle. I am trying to sleep now but the noise is unbearable. Awful. Loud pure tone
Do you reckon a minute exposure is enough to cause permanent damage? Bloody hell, I couldn’t get away from it.
hi all, I am visiting relatives in Scotland. They live near Gretna Green, so we decided to visit. At the visitor centre there was a man playing...
thank thanks Bill
Think I've permanently worsened things, Bill?
I usually wear ACS 26dbs. I wear these a lot though, like most of the time so worry now about their effectiveness. Scared with all this and feel...
I know, so I do not know why this is happening. Should the noise settle?
No, we are talking normal table noise, laugher and joking. Should this noise settle?
of course not, nothing is worth worsening the T. With earplugs and considering it is people talking, I thought I would be safe with ER earplugs....
hi friends, A quick message of enquiry! I am wondering when you wear plugs? I am dealing with sound sensitivity but also with tinnitus which...
so this should not be permanent spiking? given that the sounds are not 'objectively' dangerous?
hi TT family, I wanted to know whether it is normal/anyone has experienced waking up with increased sensitivity or whether this is due to overuse...
Dog bark has just loudly spiked my tinnitus. Little Westie sitting by my feet was clocked at 102 dB (I was actually playing around with sound...
hi @Bart I cannot help with what is causing your spike, but I can tell you that I am in the same situation. Wishing you well and all the best...
hi all, Hope you have been enjoying the warm weather (UK!) Just wondering, as I have been out playing golf and walking as to whether wind noise...
Fair enough. Didn't mean any disrespect by it, @Bill Bauer - it just caught me as amusing
I've used plugs and muffs in combination for flights. Did experience a mild spike when sitting at the back of the plane for 8 hours, but this...
I'm not laughing at those exposed to noise in anyway or suffering spikes because of it. I would not make light of that at all; and would likely be...
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