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Dear @Gav, Thank you so much for sharing your experience. From your story I understand that you used the noise-cancelling technology for "low level listening" (in order to protect your hearing / tinnitus) in noisy environments. I am very sorry to hear that this has caused so severe problems. I...

Thanks! You are right, it wasn't, at least not initially. But then I suggested I could take the middle road and wear "half" foam earplugs. I use stock ⅔ inch yellow foam earplugs that I also cut in half sometimes when I just want to take the sharp edges off the family sound experience. The...

First, I am very glad for you that your tinnitus went down to what it was before you tried the active noise-canceling headphones. Your experience could pose a red flag for my aims to get back to enjoying music again. On the other hand, maybe your ears react differently than mine. I have used my...

I went to the doctor and his diagnosis is tinnitus + hyperacusis. I told him that: For the last six years I have kept from listening to Hi-Fi sets or headphones because I was afraid to make my tinnitus tone worse/louder. I tend to use foam plugs for the last 6 months to protect my ears in noisy...

This is what I used to think. And I have no evidence to negate it, but when I explained to my 14 y/o kid how ANC works (mirrored anti phase counter waves) and when I also said that some people say their tinnitus got worse after using ANC headphones, she immediately said "but daddy, that makes...

Well this really is the key question: as long as trying headphones doesn't affect the tinnitus, it's harmless. But if it does, it feels like there's no going to back to what it was before. That is the scary part.

Thank you for telling me this. I did a hearing test last week and next Monday I'll speak to a doctor to tell me the results.

No, certainly not. I meant shower room = bathroom. I just mentioned this because it's a place where I tend to move my head around up and down (before and after the actual shower) by drying my feet, collecting towels from the floor etc. Or maybe it's just that that's where I found myself when I...

Hi all, I am quite new to this forum but I’ve read a lot of threads and I’ve seen people warn others that using Active Noise-Cancelling (ANC) headphones can be harmful to people with tinnitus. I apologise if these questions have been asked before. The question is: are ANC headphones known to...