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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!

hello mate, I’d genuinely consider getting an uber. I work in London and have been sight seeing with the wife. I’ve used double protection, but on the underground it still didn’t feel like enough. When the trains brake in places there’s this shrill noise which is awful. The windows are also...

what happened @Juan? Did you get a permanent worsening?

I get what you are saying on a theoretical level, but with the risk of heightened or worsening T, making the initial leap of faith is currently beyond me. The short term pain of spiking etc too disabling and discomforting to risk. I am intrigued as to how you get on and will hopefully be...

Hi @Bill Bauer - do you no longer need any protection in the supermarket or when driving? I find it inspirational that you have got to that place from where you were

Do you use any hearing protection anywhere at all?

Pre/cause of T, it was the front row of a concert I went to at Wembley Arena. This was without earplugs. I have shot guns etc since then, with protection, and didn't find that to be as loud. Post T - I was holidaying in Orlando and the fire alarm went off in the hotel. I had no earplugs in...

I got my tinnitus from my first concert. I, too, was in the front row and was completely uneducated and naive about what to expect. I will never understand why they have to be that loud. I don't know who it benefits and have never found one person who enjoys such a bludgeoning aural experience...

To be fair, I wasn't referring to you or your replies directly, more making a comment on the general tenor and evolution of most of the longer threads. This one swings that way as did @MattS when he was documenting his personal working through of the spike he enduring following a birthday party...

@Jazzer I never cease to be surprised when I read haughty pontificators tell an individual sufferer how their pain or tinnitus is or should be, as though they have more authority, expertise and understanding of it than the person directly experiencing it. It seems contrary and perverse to expect...

My sentiment is more aligned with the belief that if someone posts an opinion on this forum designed to assist and prevent others making similar mistakes that they themselves have made and have suffered form, surely that is a compassionate and generous thing to do. Whether it is objectively...

This thread has really become a readable, microcosmic example of what @Jazzer was trying to rally against. I know he was more suggesting that people who are expressing reactionary pain and torment induced by tinnitus are not negative but are in fact honest and normal and eloquently expressing...

I’m currently expediting a spike from road noise. I was outside walking my dog at the time and had earplugs in. I was exposed for 5-10 minutes. Road noise was around 75-80. Praying it settles but my tinnitus is noticeably louder

Hi all, I made a huge error of judgement on Saturday and I am now sinking into the depths that the consequences of this mistake are wringing upon me. I went to a friend's stag do. He was an usher at my wedding and I am going to be at his, so I felt a sense of 'obligation'. I also missed the...

I honestly wouldn’t bother with the event if there was a shred of possibility of worsening T. I did that and I’m now dealing with a terrific spike. Taking me low to the point of suicidal thoughts. If it doesnt relent within 3-6 months that people say it should, it could be the final straw...

In exactly the same boat as this. Went on a stag do. Pub, meal, pub. Now with spiking t, can’t sleep or eat and want to die. Had plugs in. Pub garden was by road so took some road noise exposure for 20 mins initially. Walked to restaurant along said road (timed at 5 mins with noises 85-94)...

anyone else able to help me?

had ER-25s in, just praying you are right. I usually double protect, but didn't have earmuffs on me. Hope you are right @Jack Straw as ears are buzzing loudly now!

Did this aggravation settle? I had to walk next to a busy road tonight - about 3-5 minutes. Had earplugs in but no muffs. Tinnitus spiked now. Did yours settle? I am beginning to worry.

From what you've read, would this be a psychosomatic/anxiety driven spike? Definitely louder and got new tones, still.

Hi Jack, do you mean shift the sound threshold lower, thus making ears easier to damage, or just more uncomfortable in noisy, but not dangerously loud environments?

This is a problem I suffer from. How did you wean yourself off? Cold turkey?

@Contrast given my experience here, do you think it’s a permanently worsened baseline?

Thanks @Digital Doc - the sounds didn’t seem too bad at the time (plane was a little noisy overhead). Worried plugs aren’t working etc. Do you think this will settle? Just wish I could sleep!

Update: wore my peltor muffs and plugs during the amplified talking. Took the muffs off for a photo op when there were just groups of people talking (no amps). This must have been for 5-10 mins (still had plugs in) and when outside. So had fun of talking, cars passing on gravel and planes...

Thanks @JohnAdams - I have some ER-25s. Reckon these will cut it? I’m tempted to double protect but it’s gonna be quite odd...

Hello! I have recently got a new job and was looking for some advice. I am working as a part-time journalist and videographer and have been requested, for work, to attend a boxing press conference tomorrow. Thing is, I am concerned over possible noises. These being: 1. A busy inescapable...

Having got my tinnitus from a concert, there is no artist alive that would tempt me into going to another...

@Contrast hmm always had a degree of it. Had it this bad for around a year

@Drone Draper thanks man. They are just so loud, aren’t they. I don’t understand how the guy playing them isn’t deaf. I could still here it clearly about 200m away. My wife went into the church where the piper continued to play (I didn’t go in). He played a song and two babies started crying...

It’s not sharp pain, but more a sense something is wrong. A sensitivity and discomfort, mental and physical, but not a sharp pain. Do you have this?

No - ER 25s. Concerned on the seals though as waxy behind there. All in all panicking and spiking.

Update: I also had the wedding dinner which was 2 hours in a restaurant with no music. Doors were open but the din was quite noisy. I tried to take breaks here and there and had earplugs in, but worried that as I was chewing the seals would break, also that the day was warm and wax kept kind of...

Hi all, I am in Scotland for a wedding. I’m sill struggling with tinnitus and hyperacusis, but though I’d try. On the way to the church a gentleman began playing some bagpipes. I was 10m or so away. I had musician's ear plugs in. Immediately I began to walk in the opposite direction as it...

@Blue28 has this improved today? The same thing has just happened to me.

(@Ed209 @Lane @TLion thanks for your comments and feedback, I’ll reply shortly - unexpectedly off to pick up (double protection of course) the wife!)

Tough one to answer as it’s subjective and my mind betrays me, but I would say that it has. When I take the muffs off at work, noises that aren’t load for others will cut through me. It’s like the earplugs aren’t even in my ears or working at all. An example was on Monday when a colleague...

I have been reading this thread with interest and feel it maybe helpful (for me and others) to out myself as a chronic protector...at the moment, I am talking 24/7. If there is anyone out there who is currently doing this, or has successfully overcome this as a way of life (success being without...

Tinnitus Man’s kryptonite is anything over 85db...

Great post. I’m very interested in the feedback as a lot of the same noises bother me. I protect, pretty much all the time, but want to move to a space of less dependence. Looking forward to the feedback

I found that very honest and helpful. Thanks @Lane for your openness. What you mention about losing the potency of your connections resonated with me. I feel I lost this following a mediation retreat. I went there on the recommendation of my therapist at the time; it was 5 days of complete...

Never taken LSD, but always been intrigued by it - those that have taken it, would you recommend it?

this is the most profound thing I've ever read on this forum...

I get this, and it's usually when benching or shoulder pressing. Can happen during, but mostly spikes just after. Never lasts though. Wouldn't give up the sports, just accept it may temporarily spike

I can't control the environment though regarding noise level at somewhere public like a restaurant. There is no way of knowing how loud it will be until I'm already there. I could go beforehand, but then there are uncontrollable variables on the night - how many people are in the restaurant, the...

"Bingham's attorney, Randolph Gordon, said it was in the city's interest to settle the lawsuit because a jury might have awarded greater damages to Bingham if it were to be convinced that the injury was caused by an intentional rather than a negligent act." When I think of mindless, intentional...