Recent content by Elfin

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 couldn't ask you to drive all that way, especially with your wife being unwell, but I thank you for your support and endeavour. It really is greatly...

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 first time I’ve got something in a paper. It’s in today’s Derby Telegraph. I am currently in Bournemouth. I’m not ruling out driving the 7 hour round...

Hello! Does anybody here live in Derby and have access to the Derby Telegraph? By access, I mean the availability of the paper in your area. If so, please let me know! I’m in urgent need of a paid favour! Kind regards and thank you in advance!

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 in the ears, (b) being unable to wear earplugs and (c) being required to enter the ring to loud music (and being unable to plug my ears, given that my...

@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. I read an interview once with Dave Allen where he described having both of his eardrums perforated in a fight and only being able to hear as if he...

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. Knowing you both, I'm sure you have the fortitude to dig in and come through these dark times. Wishing your mum better days and relative peace as well...

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 diminishes naturally under a placebo, is a charlatan hawking hope for profit or is just deliberating and maliciously undermining the cause. As has...

I am pretty stunned at this. When the banner address first displayed, it reminded me of those apocalypse news crawlers often seen in Hollywood disaster movies, suggestive of the fact that our tinnitus community was now in a parlous state; that a pirate element had seized the status quo controls...

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 ineffable tragedy that really focuses the awareness on how brutal, isolating, unforgiving and overwhelming this condition is for so many, so often...

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 often get the scotoma, which is a flickering, zig-zag pattern. It can last anywhere from 15 mins to an hour. It can also be accompanied by severe head...

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 to music through in-ear headphones too loudly and to be wary of loud noise. This didn’t stop me going to nightclubs and the concert which eventually...

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 a humming of an engine. Calmed down after a period of time, but was irritating at its worst

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 and clicking them in may be a bit excessive and time wasting, but it works on helping the anxiety, I suppose. im just desperate for them to work and...

Hi all, Looking for a bit of community feedback from those who wear ER-25s. I’m struggling currently with spikes etc and just wondering if this is an anxious byproduct of that, or something others do. Basically, before putting the earplugs in, I take the filters out and then push them back...

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 contact you to do so? Let me k know!