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@PDodge, congrats my friend. I'm really happy to see you have moved on so much. It is incredible how fast the years pass, I feel like it was just a short time ago that I registered on Tinnitus Talk and read your and others' stories in search for some hope. Now it is also for me 5 years since...

I skipped the game. I think I would have been fine with foam earplugs, but in the end not worth the risk. Whatever, there will be other events :) Thanks for the advice :)

Hey guys, has anyone been to an Indoor Hockey Game with foam earplugs? Is it doable?

I just had two 9-hour flights and had no problems with deep inserted foam earplugs during ascent or descent. I wore them from the airport all the way to the hotel room. Just open your mouth, chew gum and see that your ears equalize. Noise-canceling headphones over them also eliminate the low hum...

Yes, they had the little handle and that one always stood out. When I insert foam earplugs, they are invisible from the front but the orange color is pretty obvious from the side. I’ll try now black foam earplugs and cut them a bit. I never notice occlusion with foam earplugs, on the contrary...

I think I already bought Earasers once but they always stick out... :( Foam earplugs have always been best for me but I need to cut them a bit and then I am afraid that I can't pull them out anymore :D

Are there people here who have to handle business meetings in restaurants? How do you handle dinners with clients? I always try to choose quieter restaurants (luckily nearly no restaurant here has any kind of music) but when there are lots of people, it can sometimes get loud. I found some black...

Thinking about Resident Evil 2, I will go back now and finally clean up my remaining hardcore runs with Leon and Claire. Love the game, so much fun. I have all the other achievements except the HC runs.

Thanks buddy for all the good advice, I took notes and will let you know how it went :)

Sure, I will probably play it later down the road but I loved the RE 2 remake.

Hey guys, I’ll be visiting New York in April, first time in my life in the United States. Anyone has some must sees, favourite restaurants, general advice for first time visitors? I’ll stay for 5 days. Earplugs are already prepared ahaha :D

I still have my normal baseline tinnitus, this noise was just noticeable enough to write about it. But yeah, pretty happy that it faded so quick. Just give it more time, hopefully it will resolve or lessen in the coming months.

No no, this noise was gone in a few days or a week, if I remember correctly. I meant that for the first two years similar noises did come and go, after that it was mostly baseline tinnitus with little variation.

Yes, gone completely. Sometimes similar sounds creep back in but I don’t think I ever again had the same noise as back then. Most of these strange sounds did come and go in my first one or two years; the last two years have been mostly the same.

Fellow Italian here, also a huge fan of Witcher III and NieR. I played also an ungodly amount of Borderlands 2 :)

I had my booster shot last weekend, here in Italy you can get the booster 5 months after the second dose. I got half a dose of Moderna while the first two were Pfizer. Some sweating and maybe low fever during the first night, painful arm and some pain in the lymph nodes on the side of the...

Rome is a wonderful city, loved it. How was the food? Hope you found a few nice restaurants :)

Absolutely the same opinion. While his writing style nowadays feels a bit old fashioned, the story itself could be totally brand new, at least it feels like it. If you want to read something similar, but from a modern author, you should check out Blindsight from Peter Watts. A great cosmic...

I don't think there is any adaptation, Guillermo del Toro planned to do a movie but it never happend. I am a huge Lovecraft fan, I loved Mountains of Madness. The other stories I read were also pretty good, Cthulhu, Shadow Over Innsmouth and Case of Charles Dexter Ward. A bit hard to read for...

I rewatched The Thing a few times and each time it still gets better, and it was a phenomenal film to begin with. Probably the closest thing we ever get to a The Mountains of Madness film...

Thanks man, thats a lot of interesting stuff. I saved it all and will check the places out =)

Looks great, I'll see if we can make it to the south coast. I don't think we'll have a car, so moving around outside the city could be a bit difficult, but there is still time :) No worries, I always have my trusted foam earplugs in ;)

Thanks Ed, I am just collecting ideas and then check them out online, to see what we can fit in and what is interesting =) I am with company =) I more or less like everything, but Art, Buildings, History and so on is all great. I need to visit the Harry Potter Studios :D Thanks, looking forward...

Need some help from my UK friends. I will probably visit London for a few days this winter. Anyone here has some recommendation what to see and maybe some good restaurants? =) I have been to Wales a few years back and also went to Thorpe Park, so I will probably mostly be in the city this...

Ah got it, yeah that could be loud, luckily as a passenger you can keep away from that.

I was in my car with the windows up and did not notice anything loud while disembarking. The only remotely loud thing was a beeping when one of the ramps moved down, but then I just kept my windows closed. And of course the noise from the other cars in the ship. If someone wants to be on the...

Thanks man, I always try to update my questions so people who search for similar topics know the outcome :)

Back from holidays, the ferry for 10 hours was super quiet, no noise whatsoever. Especially the cabin way totally quiet. Also no foghorn (at least I didn’t hear one). We didn’t use a speedboat/motorboat on our excursion but a sailboat. The skipper just used the motor for a few short times, so...

Great idea, I also think earplugs should be enough for such a short flight. I just was in Florence, Pisa, Siena and other places in tuscany last year on holidays. Wonderful cities, with the best food in the world imho :D I was a long time ago in Rome, so I also visited mostly just the classic...

Hey Steph, I have flown a few times since tinnitus, the first time was a few weeks after onset (8 hours in a loud Boeing without earplugs :confused:). Never had any problems, nowadays I use normal foam earplugs and if it is especially loud, some noise cancelling headphones on top. What are you...

Not too bad switching between Cagliari and Barcelona :D

Hailstorm in the car is pretty loud (no idea of the dB, but I imagine high 80s?). I would wear foam earplugs in that situation. I also wear them for very strong rain.

I will wear earplugs outside of the cabin and keep away from the foghorn or stay under deck. I traveled a few times with a cruise ship years ago but never remembered the foghorn as particularly loud on deck.

Thanks for the advice. We travel by night so we will probably go from the car straight to the cabin, however I will stay away from the foghorn. I wear foam earplugs when outside the cabin. For the motorboat unfortunately I don‘t know which one they want to take, probably a smaller one (I think...

Hey, I hope everyone is doing alright. I will have to travel on a cruise ship in the near future (around 8 hours), however most of the time I will spend sleeping in a cabin. Anyone has any experience how loud the ship and the cabin will be? I will wear foam earplugs like always but I hate...

Fantastic song. I love the whole Razorblade Romance album.

Unfortunately, not hearing it at night was just in the beginning, so around three years ago, when it fluctuated a lot. I still get sometimes a night where it is low but it always comes back to baseline. Nowadays I hear it mostly just indoors when it is quiet, but at night it is clearly there. I...

3 Years Damn, time flies. Not much changed since my last update, lately I struggle a bit more than before, I wear foam earplugs a lot more and I am generally a bit afraid to do things. My tinnitus does not fluctuate too much anymore, it stays mostly in a certain range. While I am doing ok all...

Audition is pretty good, disturbing is probably the right word for it :)

Ok, thanks for the info. Was it very loud? Do you think it is manageable with foam earplugs?

Hi, can I ask if you had earplugs in? If yes, which ones? I am asking because I will be on holidays later this year and my friends want to go with a motorboat to some beautiful beaches, and I would really like to go. Of course I would use foam earplugs. @Bimmerboy, I personally always go with...

Loved the Evil Dead movies, so much fun :D Got a few other suggestions for film fans: House (1977) Candyman (1997) Pulse (2001) The Innkeepers (2011) The Church (1989)

Same here, I'm around 2 weeks past the second jab and no change. Just a sore arm and a bit tired the day after. For the record, around a week after my first shot my tinnitus got a bit more erratic and more annoying, especially whit earplugs in. Furthermore I had some slight pain in my ears on...

Pushing the tragus in for me, by far.

Yeah, talking can be a bit challenging and you also get a closed off feeling. But I never found them uncomfortable. Inserting them is really easy if you practice it a few times. And on the plus side they are nearly invisible :D But if you have no problem with the fitting of custom earplugs then...

I personally use 99% of the time foam earplugs. They block sometimes out a bit too much but I can understand speech most of the time still pretty good. I personally struggle a lot with custom or musician earplugs, either they don't fit very good or they don't create the right seal. I don't...

Hey @luckyme, first I am really sorry for your suffering and I really really hope you get better. It broke my heart reading your story. I hope that you will improve with more time. Now, I took a few flights since getting tinnitus, and the best combination for me was deeply inserted foam...

From all the things in my life, I never thought about earplugs being the most attractive thing :D :D

But very softly, could never risk a tinnitus spike :D

If anything the road noise and no earplugs COULD have spiked your tinnitus, since headphones normally don‘t give any protection (aside from maybe a few dB). But normal car travel is not very loud, so I would just give the ears a rest and hopefully after a while the spike will subside.

Sounds familiar, my room has a huge selection of foam earplugs, some ear defenders and filter earplugs :D

A lot of spikes from what I read on here start to fade after a while. It could also be that part of the spike is because of the allergies. However, I personally would use foam earplugs for longer drives. Don’t worry about the occlusion effect, at least I notice it way more with other earplugs...

Hey, my tinnitus also started the night after a bad cold, but I already had some slight hyperacusis after a head trauma from a car accident, so unfortunately I don't know exactly which was the culprit (I lean more towards whiplash). I also took Budesonide because of my cold but it did not make...

If you really can work remotely I would do just that, use good quality speakers, not too loud and a seperate mic. Would not risk headphones if they are not totally necessary.

First Pfizer shot yesterday morning. Having a sore arm and at night a slightly louder tinnitus but nothing out of the ordinary. Today all back to normal. No other side effects.

Is it Dr. La Torre? I remember reading his name on some Italian groups and that he believes a lot of tinnitus cases are from hydrops. I never checked more of his suggestions so I couldn’t say if it is legit or not.