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    How Often to Get Earwax Cleaned If You Must Sleep with Earplugs?

    Because of insomniac neighbors who stomp around multiple times overnight, the only way to guarantee I won't be woken up by sounds is to wear earplugs to sleep. It seems like the main thing to watch out for is impacted earwax. Can this be mitigated with more frequent earwax removals, or perhaps...
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    Does Stressing Over Noise Specifically Do Weird Things to Tinnitus?

    So stressing over tinnitus itself seems to spike my tinnitus. And one time I was close to a panic attack and got a new tinnitus tone that took a few hours to go away. But other than that, it doesn't seem to have much impact - in fact, being stressed about something else usually makes me pay...
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    Quietest Window Air Conditioner?

    My apartment has in-wall air conditioners and they are driving me crazy! They are about 58 dB loud. Thinking of moving to a place with central air or maybe a place without one and just use window ACs, as I don't recall window ACs ever being this loud. My tinnitus does not spike in reaction to...
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    Tinnitus Starting to React to Masking Noise?

    Hi all, I've had tinnitus for a long time and was mostly habituated except at night, though it has bothered me more during quarantine (not sure if it got any louder though). I have been falling asleep to A/C, fan noises, and/or fake rain noises (with a sleep timer) to help mask my tinnitus for...