Recent content by Paul201

How annoying it must be to go to someone who is supposed to be helping you with your ears, but instead makes you worse with the tests they do. I went to an ENT once about my ears and he wanted to microsuction my ears. I ran out of the place as fast as I could and will not be going back to any...

Yeah those constructing sites can be loud and annoying for ear problems. I recently went by one and it gave me a spike. I went back to check with sound meter because that's what I do sometimes and it was 80 decibels across the road but that was with those big foundation drill equipment that...

I know a few people with tinnitus and nobody has got rid of it and no doctor has ever told me it can go away. Yet people do say it has gone away for them so it must be possible, but I think it's not the norm. If it gets to the stage where you only hear it when it's fairly quiet, you are doing...

im wondering if its something to do with construction, its a noisy job even with ear protection, thats what i would be wondering if i was in your position

your T is only 3 months old, you are right to be very cautious with it, if we believe all the info your improvement if u mind it occurs within a year. Mine came mostly within the first 3 months but i did notice an improvement up to a yr, but smaller as time went by, after that, well spikes...

Even without ear plug's i would say a temp spike at worst for most people I'm almost totally sick and tired of monitoring spikes and adapting behaviour as a result of them until they recede. I get spiked all the time, today, angle grinder caught with shopping trolley couldnt even plug ears...

If only that were the case with my ears! wax never comes out on it's own and even with oil it just delays the inevitable blockage's. when i do find a solution that seems to work well, it may be ear toxic, even putting in drops every second week with oil has not stopped my left ear from filling...

I just used waxsol and u got me worried with this statement! I did some googling and came up with two totally contrasting studies! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23092833/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22101097/ https://www.dizziness-and-balance.com/disorders/bilat/ototoxic_drops.htm So...

I stick foam plugs in the shower and with a hair dryer and hoover, just because I feel I am in some sort of "healing" phase and am being cautious, even tho they say the inner ear doesn't heal, but something happens in there to quite a few people with t reductions in volume and even the odd one...

I think a lot of people with mild t have at some point experienced louder t (spikes, t at onset etc) and thank the lucky stars a lot for the reduction in volume. After the t has reduced I do think you can become complacent and forget how bad louder t really is though. I can still hear my t...

Visit a respiratory ward in a hospital and look at the people gasping for breath hooked up to ventilators, it may help with your t, or may not

No I don't think t changes are a sign of worsening hearing (but small chance they could be). But the only way to prove this to yourself is to get fairly regular ear tests and compare them after t changes. If your playing in a band you don't want to end up causing your t to become worse through...

Just from random thoughts on it, maybe over sensitive hair cells or some nerve stems that have been changed/damaged in some way and don't react as they should do. Maybe parallel it to an old back injury that you know that if you do certain things it will cause pain/discomfort which will calm...

I have had a dpoae test done, it has shown that in my left ear emissions are normal up to 4kHz but above that (or close to 5kHz) they disappear. From an amateurs point of view I am assuming that for those frequencies my hair cells are dead, not responding or something along those lines. Is this...

Well my t can spike from sounds at lot less than 80 db. I just recently used a frequency generator to find my t frequency and my t spiked up quite loud for a few days even tho it was very low. So maybe certain sound will spike your t even when wearing ear protection