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  1. Michael Barton

    Sudden Unilateral Deafness After Spending 2x 15 Minutes in a Server Room (60 dB)...?

    Hi all, How are we today? So I've had tinnitus for a little over 2 months now and recently experienced a slight episode. About 2 weeks ago, I went drinking at a restaurant with family over Christmas. Tinnitus got worse but a week later, it subsided again. Today I spent 2x 15 minutes in a...
  2. Michael Barton

    Wanting to Place a 'Splint' at the Dentist...

    Hi, I would like to know if I should get the insurance plan to cover placing of 2 splints next year. I'm afraid, as is anybody, that certain procedures at the dentist, can worsen tinnitus (and know now to allow for ultrasonic apparatus). I have been told that the placement is similar to...
  3. Michael Barton

    Do People with Tinnitus Have Lowered Threshold for Further Hearing Damage / Worsening of Tinnitus?

    Hi all, I hate to be repeating things, but I really just need help/answers. Now that tinnitus started, I'm wondering if my overall 'damage threshold' has been reduced from 80 dB, or not. By this I mean that, more damage would occur at lower levels ie. 70 dB. I seem to have gotten the idea...
  4. Michael Barton

    How Do I Prevent Increases in Tinnitus?

    So, I'd still like to go to restaurants, theme parks, parties, etc. and even while wearing music earplugs, I find that at the end of the day, it sounds like I've been to a too loud concert all over again. What an I doing wrong? Should I be using fully dampening earplugs? Should I just avoid...
  5. Michael Barton

    Two Tones Down to One

    Hi everyone, I've had tinnitus for about 11 days now, and can say that the first 3 days were catastrophic, I was so scared! Then, after days of reading, I started to come to terms with it, all of it. I would do better knowing it's there, instead of just going somewhere there was a silence and...
  6. Michael Barton

    Just Saying Hi to Y'all and Tinnitus

    Hi everyone, Well, I always knew that loud music would make me deaf, didn't know about this tinnitus though. Kind of sucks, since it was really making me scared knowing it could become permanent (only heard that a few months ago), and then me being a dumb ass, go to a concert, and boom. I...