Tinnitus Talk Support Forum

Sadly, only time and proper protection seems to help when it comes to those things according to @Bill Bauer. Bill hasn't posted at all this year. I think it might be due to his condition. I thought I'd chime in. I feel your pain. Try to eat softer foods if eating is painful as well. You can just eat stuff like chewy steak if it's not painful like chips. You could try blending your food.

Asking someone else to use the blender with hearing protection while you're not around or you can be in another room with an extension cord connected to the blender's cord with hearing protection and the door closed then plug it in an outlet outside that room and far away to blend your food into a liquid substance while being in a safe spot.

You can also look at liquid meal replacements online, I'd reccomend choosing some without sugar or dairy as those can absolutely spike people as well.

If you get a DB meter to find out how loud certain things are and which things to stay away from. Make sure it can Calculate DBz from 10hz to 20khz. DBa does not calculate low sounds properly and will not show you true values.

However, I'm not sure if Bill talked too much about DB Meters he usually said to stay away from sounds that made you spike mainly and everything above normal conversation volume. 60db. A good way to know what those are is getting a DB meter however.

That is for extended periods of time though. Split second impulse bursts of sounds above 60db should be okay and are basically improbable to avoid no matter what you'd try it's insane how many sounds we make that peak above 70db in the low millisecond time window.

Even clipping your nails can be a 100db impulse noise. I'd probably wear protection for that or use nail scissors for quieter usage because that can be a spike-inducing thing I imagine. You can also cut the side of your nails first then pull the nail off. It should come off easily if the side is cut slightly. That is most likely one of the quietest ways to do it.

Tutorials:


How to wear ear muffs properly:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNi3qJ79Wio


How to wear ear plugs properly:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gajb4bOu4Rs

Things to avoid that you probably already know to:

Toilet Flushing, You can attach a string to the toilet handle and get out of the room then pull the string while wearing hearing protection to flush the toilet remotely.

Concerts

Blender

Microwave you can put a finger bot on the start button after setting up the time and start it remotely to avoid the sound or just use a big oven without the annoying " Ting" sound some make. Big ovens preferably that make no sound.

Other things to avoid:

Headphones

Loud music at all

Power Tools Saws Drills all of them

Cars

Motorcycles

Door slams

Toilet flushes

Trains

Planes

Thunder, stay indoors in the basement with hearing protection if possible extremely loud outside 120DB and near windows, people will calculate thunder in DBa, but it should be calculated in DBz weighting, it can easily be 83 DB indoors or more especially near windows maybe even louder depending on where in the house you are. The basement is usually the safest space from thunder if you have access to it.

Microwave that works with the remote fingerbot: "Panasonic NN-SD681S" is the one, As long as the buttons can be pushed by a little force it'll be fine. Just put the fingerbot on the Start button.

Fingerbot:

https://www.amazon.com/Adaprox-Fingerbot-control-compatible-Assistant/dp/B09K3JNHHR

@TheIncident what you've written here is much appreciated, but what's left of a life if we have to live in a cave? How do we work? We need money... It's not just like we do this temporarily and then we get better. This is basically not living.

@Nadia231 I understand what you mean. This is something that is extremely hard to do for some people and for lots of people it wouldn't be worth the effort of doing. It's just that it seems that @Mal25 is a very severe sufferer and asked for Bill's take on it in a thread. I'm only relaying what @Bill Bauer would most likely tell him to answer his call for help.

I appreciate you looking out for Mal, it's very nice of you and I definitely see where you're coming from.

I appreciate your comments and help. I think I've went down a road of occlusion and now my H is extreme and my T is catastrophic most sounds .and my ears ache and ear muffs spike me as soon as I get em on for some reason. I've been wearing earplugs for months now and I have nox also. My sound tolerance reduces as the days go by.

Idk whether to put the earplugs all the way in and rest from all noise or partially and try to recover some tolerance. I have a bunch of cofactors like ETD or PET and ear popping when I swallow or move my head. I feel tingly in my throat when I swallow

Also I have tingling in my whole body from heat or cold adjustment. Also my autophony or loudness is very bad. I get slightly dizzy from sounds and when I breathe I feel the wind in my ears and soreness

It's been 6 months for me. I can't drive without worsening and ridiculous spikes can't go outside currently. Hopefully God doesn't condemn me to hell. Previously I owned a clothing line, sold cars, played chess, boxing trained, was a workout junky, and pescatarian for almost 10 years, I'm 43 and my life is done. I sit in bathrooms majority of the day avoiding road traffic noise and planes God bless