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I have a noisy job. I work at a ship yard with lots of loud bangs and noisy work. I have tinnitus and some hyperacusis due to noise trauma. Because of this I always wear both helmet mounted earmuffs and and earplugs to be safe. This works well and the earplugs alone have been tested to attenuate...

I am so furious right now! I work the night shift at a hospital and have been doing my rounds being very vigilant about and avoiding possible noise exposures with success. I was very happy that I was able to avoid any loud bangs this time. Then I enter the office/break room where I can finally...

Thank you for your response. It's just regular hyperacusis I believe. I do get some irritation and tickling sometimes after loud and sudden sounds, but this is just my ear muscles tensing up a bit, but I wouldn't call it painful. I also have something which I believe has to do with my Eustachian...

So I have tinnitus, hyperacusis and I have also developed phonophobia. Short story for context: I got tinnitus in 2013, probably due to noise trauma. I habituated eventually and was fine for many years until this summer when I was exposed to an acoustic shock at work. This gave me a new...

Thank you very much Michael. I am going to start CBT therapy next week with the audiotherapist, and will take it from there. I hope it can help. I have a question for you though about headsets. I have stopped using them just to be safe, but I do wonder. How do they damage ears even at low...

That is discouraging, but I guess it is what it is. To boot I got tinnitus in my right ear as well yesterday. I work as a dockworker and we have old shipping steel containers that are used as an on-site break area. I don’t use it myself but I was standing just outside the container, which is 20...

I also wonder about this. I am due for an MRA in a couple of weeks to look at blood veins in my head. From what I know, they use a special technique to get a good look at veins. Anybody knows what kind of technique this is? And how long it takes and what the noise level is? I have had MRIs...

I've had two colonoscopies and a few gastroscopies. The gastroscopies were by far the most uncomfortable ones for me. I did not use any relaxant or painkillers with the colonoscopies and it was fine both times. I did get some intravenous relaxant during my last gastroscopy, but it did not...

My tinnitus story is basically that I had tinnitus in my left ear with some hyperacusis for about 10 years but habituated nicely after about a year or two. I had major anxiety at first but as I habituated, it went away. I did CBT for a while, but stopped when I habituated. About two months ago I...

Thank you Michael for responding so quickly. I appreciate it. I see now that I could have been clearer in my former post. When I wrote noise treatment, I meant a treatment package, both a CBT therapist specialized in hearing problems, and an audiologist specialized in both tinnitus and...

Thank you, I will read it now. I am going to get professional noise treatment with behind-the-ear noise generators to wear during the day but it's quite expensive and I have to save up for it. For sleeping I have tried nature sounds but it doesn't work. My newest and most intrusive tinnitus...

So I have an update. I used the Apple Watch to measure the SPL. It was fluctuating between about 78 and 88 dB depending on how I held the watch. Taking in to account the margin of error of the watch, which is about 2 dB, in worst case I was exposed to about 90 dB, which is quite a lot and...

Thank you for your response @ajc. I already did, but having experience with different inquiries to companies, I don't expect to get a response for a while, if at all. But we will see, and I will keep you updated if I get a response. I have borrowed an Apple Watch and will try to see if I can...

Hi, Does anybody know the max decibel level of the Sound Oasis pillow speakers? I have bought one of these pillows with speakers inside and connected it to my MacBook Air to play a white noise while sleeping. This video had a very low output so I turned the volume up to max on my Mac and it...

Hi, I have had tinnitus in my left ear for 10 years. I habituated after some time and the tinnitus didn't bother me much after that. Almost two months ago I had an impact sound trauma at work that resulted in a new very high-pitched sound after about 3 or 4 days witch persists today. I am...