Overprotection and Avoiding Most Noise — Yay or Nay?

[aura]

I think our ear pain is a small warning of what's to come if we keep worsening. Who knows.

Pain hyperacusis? We don't want to go there, trust me...

Only fans, rain, etc.

Also, forget about OnlyFans for a period if it spikes you

@Exit warned us all lol.

Yeah, @Exit is like the Oracle of Kattegat. He wasn't showering too often either.

 

[Wrfortiscue]

Pain hyperacusis? We don't want to go there, trust me...

Also, forget about OnlyFans for a period if it spikes you

Yeah, @Exit is like the Oracle of Kattegat. He wasn't showering too often either.

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You're hilarious aura haha.

 

[aura]

You're hilarious aura haha.

Yeah, that's my superpower.

What worries me is that even Superman ended up in a wheelchair...

 

[Travis Henry]

Yeah the dishes broke the camel's back for him. I had a similar experience. My ears were weak from shooting guns without earplugs 5 years ago. Blew a hole in my cochlea a year ago which made both ears sensitive as hell. Got in a car accident and the airbag deployment caused bad damage. Then the final straw was a brake squeal from my Hellcat Brembos. It was just enough at the right pitch to break the camel's back. I felt the nerves being ripped to bits from it and ever since I've been as bad as Tom the guy you saw on YouTube. Yeah, trust me dude, it can be that bad. Tom seems like he's over exaggerating in the video but believe me, he's not.

I remember when my tinnitus and hyperacusis were mild and barely affected my life. I watched the video and was like Tom has to be bullshitting, it can't be that bad. I only understand what I had experience with. I never knew you could get ear pain from your phone playing music on volume 1. I mean I was like these people are all just being babies. Nah bro, trust me. Shit can happen. And my pain was moderate from March to June of 2021. It was stabbing and aching but lasted maybe a few hours after a bad sound. I still kept trying to live and push though shit being the dude I am, thinking I can't just give up, I can't just give up my entire career, job, friends, the gym, everything for this. But that was before the pain got so bad I would just throw up and pass out.

I'm telling you man, if you have it like me and @Taw and tom, the pain is like nothing you have never experienced. I've torn my peck, broken bones, torn ligaments, fractured bones, had teeth pulled out with no numbing, had bulging discs in my back. The closest was when I was a kid and had like 30 warts each hand and they used liquid nitrogen to freeze them off, for one or two it was quick and not bad, but nonstop liquid nitrogen for 15 minutes was just horrible pain, and I had to go every few weeks. I used to skateboard and that sport hurts like hell and. I'm no stranger to pain bro, I'm not a cry baby. But i can tell you, the ear pain got so severe I told myself I will never leave my house again if it meant the pain will stop. I literally have thought about death every night holding my gun wanting to end it all because of the pain. This kind of pain is nasty because of where it is, ear pain like this is a bad sensation. If you felt this pain anywhere else on your body, it would not be as bad. Like a 4 on my normal ear pain days is like a 8 or a 9 on normal parts of the body.

It is bad dude, it's hard to understand when you don't have it because I didn't get it until I got it. Try to imagine you get a screwdriver jabbed all the way in your ear and the wound never heals. You feel the pain all the time and every noise including your own voice. Sometimes it feels like rubbing alcohol is being dumped into the wound. God it's seriously one of the worst conditions on the planet man. And having tinnitus with it, hahaha, makes it worse. Because any pain meds you take just make the tinnitus worse. My tinnitus is pretty bad and I don't even care anymore. But yeah I think in these cases it's like a nerve or synapse hanging on by a thread and one right noise just completely disconnects it. I don't think hair cells can be damaged that easily, I mean maybe but it's not likely.

Yikes my hyperacusis seems like it's getting as bad as yours. Where do you live? Did you make a quiet room? I live on a main street and noise is killing me. I dunno how to escape it. Wish I could teleport to 50 acres of land that is quiet as can be.

 

[Brian Newman]

Yikes my hyperacusis seems like it's getting as bad as yours. Where do you live? Did you make a quiet room? I live on a main street and noise is killing me. I dunno how to escape it. Wish I could teleport to 50 acres of land that is quiet as can be.

I live on a semi busy street but my house is pretty quiet, I usually only hear loud cars or loud high pitch break squeals if I'm closer to the door. To sleep I got window inserts and sleep on my side with an earplug in my ear facing up, which definitely helps a lot. And tbh people hate when I say it, my case is like so rare compared to most I've read. My noxacusis is aggressive and gets bad fast and doesn't recover well. Only thing that helps is exercise and acupuncture. If you're getting really bad pain from noise, yeah, gotta avoid it or it will worsen. If it's more annoying and loud than painful, just be careful and it should be ok.

If it wasn't for extreme pain I would be living more. Or if it was moderate pain lol. Ears suck man.

 

[vilebubbles]

Tom Maholchic. But he played a lot in the garage with his band. The dishes were just the final straw for him, like for many of us.

A dish being dropped in the sink was the final straw for my ears as well, unfortunately.