Hyperacusis on 20/20 TV In US

who was mowing the lawn lol ?? and by padded u mean their house? does the really reduce volume my fam was thinking of doing thst to my room if we cant move from the noisy neighborhood

 

Wrong. Please dont misinform people, you might hurt somebody.

 

I dont know who was mowing the lawn, probably a guy who has a lawn.

Their CONDO, is fully carpeted, they have installed custom noise insulating windows, there are no metal objects or things that can make any noise and they use plastic plates, cutlery and a plastic frying pan.

 

i saw it again its a different dude on the mower.. yeah i was thinking bout getting a custom window to block out the outside noises too

 

Dan there is another guy featured in video if I go by memory and he indeed mows the lawn with muffs on. He is either very mild and taking precaution or perhaps has "phonophobia"

I will never understand why they live in NYC. It is beyond crazy to me. I would love to visit but can't even fathom that.

 

A plastic frying pan??? wth? LOL

 

You could basically pad up your room Geo..though that is very sad to me. I wish you would try a medication at least. Seriously if you got your H under control you would probably get that T under control.

But this beast (H) has a mind of its own. I am no better than when it began..actually worse as I used to have weeks of respite where I would almost feel normal. I won't say noise has made me worse because I don't know..maybe for me, it's something else. Regardless it sucks big time.

 

Yes that lawnmower dude has milder H. No way is Joyce's husband Ben gonna mow a lawn lol.
Yeah what you never heard of a plastic frying pan?

 

Do they cook with it on a plastic stove to prepare plastic eggs?

Otherwise, no.

 

do they buy another one right after it melts lol

 

I knew two people..but I'm guessing the second didn't have H at all..who knows..he saw Jastreboff and stopped speaking to me. Jastreboff must of really worked some magic. He is seemingly leading a productive life after being suicidal from said H last year.

 

Yes from the manufacturer ' Little Tikes'
I believe Toys R Us is a distributor if you're interested.

 

Was his name Sammy by any chance?

 

Who was suicidal? They cured his H?

 

Its crazy how my h disaperared or got extremely low last time i had it, i dont really see anyone in here being rid of it.. Wel my second time is just awful ...

 

Geo I used to get H on and off without T for years..Was odd but I just figured it was TMJ related. This time, I don't know why it stayed and why I also got T. I guess whatever waa causing it, got worse.

 

I couldn't tell you. He never spoke to me again. I guess he was banned from doing so lol..anyways my guess he didn't have H, maybe misophonia and TTS..I'd love to ask him but he left me hanging so basically I have no time for that.

 

Odd, if I was cured I would tell everyone who cared.

 

@dan you ever hear about that guy who loved Wham and did E?

 

Yea, no shit..especially when one of those people stuck by you for months.

 

Yeah I don't know why you would want to keep that a secret. Anything Jastreboff/TRT related is often weird stuff like this. Really casts a huge shadow of doubt on the whole thing.

 

LOL, part of Jastreboff is like going to Jesus camp, he actively encourages his patients to avoid ''negative online forum influences''. Which in the real world means his rhetoric doesn't stand up to inspection.

 

Yeah makes precious little sense.

Rent controlled area of NY that is so ridiculously expensive... Hmmm...

And it's an appartment. And ask any soundproof seller and he'll tell you that to protect from sound you have to put the insulation at the source, not on your own side of the wall. How any kind of insulation can protect from the massive amount of vibrations (of people walking without shoes on, for example, not to mention drum and bass or elevator sounds), I don't know, and how they haven't realised that in the US, despite the dogs and birds in the countryside you can get lucky and not get them near you, is a mystery to me.

 

I wish there were more hyperacusis/tinnitus documentaries on TV's worldwide... to raise awareness and also to protect people. If I knew what could happened if I wasn't careful with my ears i would have had much more care.
And unfurtonately in the noisy world we live in... the ipod generation were young people go a lot more to discos,bars,sports events,festivals, that are much louder with better loudspeakers. If theres's not a care now... our generation (im 20) at our 40 will have a lot mot hearing loss and tinnitus and hyperacusis will increase dramatically. But the humans are like this... we don't do nothing until we have the problem... we always think "oh it only happens to the others"

 

That's hilarious, and unsurprising.

 

Hi @Geo

I'd like to shed some light on acoustic isolation. I'd go nuts in a town like LA or NY (and move). Easyer said then done... I live in a 200k people town with hyperacusis level 3 and i'm allready having a hard time adjusting ... I wish you strenght and getting better soon. Battling H in a noisy neighbourhood or city ain't no easy thing to do.


What the couple did in this vid is just damping internal sounds, like something falling on the floor, or someone bumping into a door. These pads also might damp the internal acoustics a bit (absorbing high frequency reflections, there might be less echoing)
These measures would hardly isolate outside noise. If you are going for noise isolation try to ask a professional with good knowledge of acoustics. Look up sound proof glass. Also note the construction of the window itself besides the glass part. Wall or door - air gap - wall or door; is a good form for isolating sound that travels trough air. Like for example an airlock. There's sound that travels trough air, and there's contact sound. Contact sound(like the bumps you hear trough the walls from other rooms or houses, mostly vibrations) can be harder to reduce. You need to use decoupling then, like spikes under a loudspeaker for ex.

Note that if you acoustically isolate a room only 90%, all the noise will leak trough the other 10% It's not like insulating for heat, where you will have only 10% loss.

ps. @all. lol at the plastic frying pan, plastic toy burgers don't taste too good.

 

I think they have installed soundproof glass as well.

 

if I recall, they put blanket-like things over the windows. They definitely were blocking out some external noise.

 

Well maybe they can tolerate contact sound, which is absurd. I would go crazy in an apartment. You can hear someone's footsteps at 30-50 meters if they're in your same structure in an apartment, if they don't have slippers on that shield their tibial (back of the foot). Maybe that doesn't make their TTTS to spring up, or maybe they have a different kind of air sound hyperacusis.

 

Anyone out there with SHL, tinnitus and worsening hypercusis?