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    Lots of People Talking in an Enclosed Space — Tinnitus Spike After Years of Habituation

    Hi everyone, I used to be a regular poster many years back, but haven't visited for a long time as I'd consider myself fully habituated. A quick back story: I got tinnitus around 17 years ago from loud noise exposure (nightclubs). I struggled to cope and a few years in I didn't leave the...
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    Just Been to the Dentist... And Didn't Use Plugs!

    Hi, hope everyone is doing well :) I haven't posted here for awhile, but i have just had a small victory (actually a humongous victory for me) so felt the need to post... After avoiding the dentist for the best part of 10 years, until an appointment last year to have a filling where I used...
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    Hopes Dashed :(

    Hi everyone, Long time no see. I am back today to...well vent I guess. No one at home to listen to I thought i'd come here... After 13 years of T (caused by music in night club), by this time last year my life was, well, not a life, just a mere existence. I hadn't worked for 3 years, spent...
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    90 dB for 10 Minutes — Safe or Not?

    Opinions please - I have a skin complaint that is greatly helped by UV light so having a short session on the sun bed now and then really helps. The sunbeds have a large fan at the top, obviously to keep the unit cool when in use and stop it from exploding or whatever,.....problem is the fan is...
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    An Awful Experience... Just Got Back From The Dentist

    Wow... Just got back from the dentist...I needed extensive work done (after avoiding the dentist for YEARS) and have been looking for a kind understanding dentist which I finally found....so turn up today for some of the work to be completed on the upper left....I was in two minds whether to...
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    Quiet Equipment (Vacuum Cleaners, Hair Dryers, Lawn Mowers, etc.)

    Hi all, I mentioned this briefly on another thread, but I just wanted to say over the last 6 months I have hunted down quieter electrical equipment to make life a little easier... I now am in possession of the world's quietest hair dryer, vacuum cleaner and kettle :) I can honestly say all...
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    Desperately Need Dentist Advice from the "Old Timers" Please

    Hi all, I am looking for advice from long term t people about going to the dentist. I know the topic of the dentist has been discussed a zillion times already in various threads, but what I am looking for is actual real life accounts from people with long term t like 5 + years. Can anyone...
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    DAMN AMBULANCE SIRENS — Ruining My Ears AND My Car :|

    Hi all, Haven't posted in a while so hope everyone is ok and all T's are suitably behaving themselves in the run up for xmas.... I wondered if anyone wanted to hazard a guess at what db reduction being inside a car provides...I have a standard Vauxhall Astra car. I am thinking maybe 10db of...
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    Tinnitus and Hacking Cough...

    I wanted to know if anyone has had any experience with having a really bad cough and the effect on their tinnitus... I have had numerous colds in my 11 years of tinnitus and I am well aware they can often spike your t due to blocked Eustachian tubes etc and then when the cold clears t generally...
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    Nimodipine

    Hey, A person mentioned "Nimodipine" as a tinnitus treatment. I googled Nimodipine and it appears that it works by binding specifically to L-type voltage-gated calcium channels. This sound similar to Autifony's approach with the calcium channels? Maybe not. I just thought it was interesting...
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    What a disastrous week... :(

    Hi everyone, Need to have a vent and ask for some support following the events of the last week of my life.... Well my T has been pretty terrible lately anyway for whatever reason but then in the last week I lost my beloved Cat Ace - he got run over and killed outside my house and I saw it...
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    Cinema... Opinions Please

    Hi, In the last 11 years of tinnitus I have been to he cinema numerous times with plugs in and found no immediate effect on t, the last time I went was 2013 to see the life of pi. However, the last year as my tinnitus continues to worsen inexplicably I have been avoiding any moderate noise at...
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    Maybe irrelevant but.....

    Ok this may be completely irrelevant , but us T people need a good old laugh at times. My good t buddy from Sweden sent me this the other day, and although we were both having a really bad t day, we couldn't help but LOL at this...so hopefully this might just make some of you laugh today...