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In an emergency, you can use your fingers to press the pinna or earlobe against the ear canal. This can provide about 20 dB of attenuation. I almost always wear the Soundcore Q45, and I have been doing this for years with no adverse effects. I always have quiet music playing at night and also...

Unfortunately, I visited the periodontist to discuss the possibility of having some teeth pulled. She explained that molars are difficult to extract and often require significant drilling to separate the roots. She also mentioned knowing a specialist, but they are located out of town—about seven...

I used to live next to a railyard. Although I didn’t really hear much noise from it, I eventually developed severe tinnitus and had to be hospitalized. Their diagnosis was a “nervous breakdown.” The next part of my life was a living hell. Eventually, I found a new home in a different city. I...

@pinereader, there really is not much of a good answer. If I see a train approaching, I head in the opposite direction in a hurry. I have been trapped inside a medical hospital when the fire alarm went off. That gave me a tinnitus spike for probably six months. I had to sell my house and move...

@Michael1122, thanks. It has really been rough, but at least the spike is not as brutally bad anymore. It has been nine days now. It is definitely still unpleasant, but compared to the first night, there has been some improvement. I am not sure if it will return to baseline, but somehow, I feel...

@Michael1122, when my tinnitus was in a stable chronic state, I could handle it. The problem with this spike is that it’s extremely intrusive and, frankly, almost frightening—it leaves me in a daze. I had to resort to a single 2.5 mg dose of morphine, which was difficult to obtain since getting...

@mikeh, I’m pretty sure I also have “gain” tinnitus, where it seems to get louder with more ambient sound. Right now, I’m keeping the volume very low. I also use natural sound—specifically, the Restful Rain CD, which I ripped to FLAC format. My daughter removed the very quiet parts, so I ended...

Definitely, you are damaging your ears with loud music. Welcome to the club. As for cannabis, if you take CBD, CBDV, and THC, I find vaping that combination to be a good option. You measure out 80 g of CBD/CBDV flower to get 75 mg of CBD, 75 mg of CBDV, and 10 mg of THC flower. I use 25 percent...

I’m struggling today. The sound of my own voice is too loud. I usually play Enya in my office, but my tinnitus is clearly intrusive and far above the level of the soundtrack. I’m just not getting any more drilling done. If I have to get by with 20 teeth, that’s more than enough. I have 28 right...

@mikeh, I used to be like you, needing complete silence to sleep. Unfortunately, I ended up wearing earplugs all the time since there was always some noise coming from somewhere. A very knowledgeable audiologist told me that was the worst possible thing to do, and I can attest to that. I gave...

I’m taking some pretty heavy doses of medication as well. Carbamazepine can easily become toxic, even at 300 mg. At higher doses, you could fall without being able to protect yourself. I normally take 150 mg twice—once at night and again if I wake up around 2 or 3 AM. Right now, I’m taking 450...

It was the drilling noise.

I’m now reading about dentures, and I don’t like that idea either. I’m thinking a mind-over-matter approach might be best. I see a lot of people here with severe tinnitus that sounds just as bad as mine, if not worse. I think I’d rather die than have all my teeth pulled, go without them for...

I’m thinking about just pulling my teeth and going with dentures. It seems very drastic, but it’s 2:30 in the afternoon, and I’m still in bed. Before the dental work, I was actually starting to do alright. My Clonazepam was down to 0.25 mg, but now I’m at 2 mg, plus Lyrica 225 mg and Seroquel...

I just got back from yet another endless trip to the dentist. I must have chipped a filling, except he said two were chipped and needed to be repaired. I could only handle getting one fixed. There was a lot of drilling, way in the back, where the bone transmission to the ear is intense. They...