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Hi guys, thanks for your help and advice with this. And @Ed209 thank you so much for your generous offer - it's very much appreciated! I simply...

Yeh, that’s a good shout @Ed209. Basically, over the past year, I have been pursuing a job as a freelance boxing journalist and today marks the...

I’ve also wanted to take it up many times and I’ve trained here and there, but never sparred or fought due to concerns about (a) getting punched...

@Ed209 - I was thinking the exact same thing. Also in the context of the noise of the ringwalks, the crowd and the usual nightclub after parties....

Just seen this thread and want to wish you both well @Ed209 and @Bill Bauer. You have both been pillars of strength for so many of us on here....

The absolute state of replies like these. It's hard to work out whether the original poster is either fortunate to have a tinnitus subtype which...

I am pretty stunned at this. When the banner address first displayed, it reminded me of those apocalypse news crawlers often seen in Hollywood...

Allan, This thread is a great testimony to how valued and cherished you were - and indeed will continue to be - within our community. Such an...

Hi @MichaelP, It doesn't sound like visual snow to me, more like the aura experienced during a migraine. I have had migraines for many years and...

My dad bought me a guitar when I was young. He was also in bands and he also had tinnitus. He warned me about protecting my ears, not to listen...

Had this on many occasions, brother. Usually much worse in periods of high stress. The noise would mimic hoovers, music, the buzzing of a wasp or...

thank you for replying @Bartoli, this makes sense and is the kind of feedback I need. Part of me senses that repetitively taking them in and out...

hi @MattS i don’t seem to be able to send you a direct message. I have a couple of questions that I’d like to run by you. Is there a way I can...

hello mate, I’d genuinely consider getting an uber. I work in London and have been sight seeing with the wife. I’ve used double protection, but on...

what happened @Juan? Did you get a permanent worsening?

I get what you are saying on a theoretical level, but with the risk of heightened or worsening T, making the initial leap of faith is currently...

Hi @Bill Bauer - do you no longer need any protection in the supermarket or when driving? I find it inspirational that you have got to that place...

Do you use any hearing protection anywhere at all?

Pre/cause of T, it was the front row of a concert I went to at Wembley Arena. This was without earplugs. I have shot guns etc since then, with...

I got my tinnitus from my first concert. I, too, was in the front row and was completely uneducated and naive about what to expect. I will never...

To be fair, I wasn't referring to you or your replies directly, more making a comment on the general tenor and evolution of most of the longer...

@Jazzer I never cease to be surprised when I read haughty pontificators tell an individual sufferer how their pain or tinnitus is or should be, as...

My sentiment is more aligned with the belief that if someone posts an opinion on this forum designed to assist and prevent others making similar...

This thread has really become a readable, microcosmic example of what @Jazzer was trying to rally against. I know he was more suggesting that...

I’m currently expediting a spike from road noise. I was outside walking my dog at the time and had earplugs in. I was exposed for 5-10 minutes....

I honestly wouldn’t bother with the event if there was a shred of possibility of worsening T. I did that and I’m now dealing with a terrific...

In exactly the same boat as this. Went on a stag do. Pub, meal, pub. Now with spiking t, can’t sleep or eat and want to die. Had plugs in. Pub...

anyone else able to help me?

had ER-25s in, just praying you are right. I usually double protect, but didn't have earmuffs on me. Hope you are right @Jack Straw as ears are...

Did this aggravation settle? I had to walk next to a busy road tonight - about 3-5 minutes. Had earplugs in but no muffs. Tinnitus spiked now....

From what you've read, would this be a psychosomatic/anxiety driven spike? Definitely louder and got new tones, still.

Hi Jack, do you mean shift the sound threshold lower, thus making ears easier to damage, or just more uncomfortable in noisy, but not dangerously...

This is a problem I suffer from. How did you wean yourself off? Cold turkey?

@Contrast given my experience here, do you think it’s a permanently worsened baseline?

Thanks @Digital Doc - the sounds didn’t seem too bad at the time (plane was a little noisy overhead). Worried plugs aren’t working etc. Do you...

Update: wore my peltor muffs and plugs during the amplified talking. Took the muffs off for a photo op when there were just groups of people...

Thanks @JohnAdams - I have some ER-25s. Reckon these will cut it? I’m tempted to double protect but it’s gonna be quite odd...

Having got my tinnitus from a concert, there is no artist alive that would tempt me into going to another...

@Contrast hmm always had a degree of it. Had it this bad for around a year

@Drone Draper thanks man. They are just so loud, aren’t they. I don’t understand how the guy playing them isn’t deaf. I could still here it...

It’s not sharp pain, but more a sense something is wrong. A sensitivity and discomfort, mental and physical, but not a sharp pain. Do you have this?

No - ER 25s. Concerned on the seals though as waxy behind there. All in all panicking and spiking.

Update: I also had the wedding dinner which was 2 hours in a restaurant with no music. Doors were open but the din was quite noisy. I tried to...

@Blue28 has this improved today? The same thing has just happened to me.

(@Ed209 @Lane @TLion thanks for your comments and feedback, I’ll reply shortly - unexpectedly off to pick up (double protection of course) the wife!)

Tough one to answer as it’s subjective and my mind betrays me, but I would say that it has. When I take the muffs off at work, noises that aren’t...

I have been reading this thread with interest and feel it maybe helpful (for me and others) to out myself as a chronic protector...at the moment,...

Tinnitus Man’s kryptonite is anything over 85db...

Great post. I’m very interested in the feedback as a lot of the same noises bother me. I protect, pretty much all the time, but want to move to a...

I found that very honest and helpful. Thanks @Lane for your openness. What you mention about losing the potency of your connections resonated...

Never taken LSD, but always been intrigued by it - those that have taken it, would you recommend it?

this is the most profound thing I've ever read on this forum...

I get this, and it's usually when benching or shoulder pressing. Can happen during, but mostly spikes just after. Never lasts though. Wouldn't...

I can't control the environment though regarding noise level at somewhere public like a restaurant. There is no way of knowing how loud it will be...

"Bingham's attorney, Randolph Gordon, said it was in the city's interest to settle the lawsuit because a jury might have awarded greater damages...