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I've had two MRIs and I've worn my pwn earplugs both times. I elect not to have their music blaring down the headphones but still are required to wear them so they can speak to you. I didn't find the mri machine to be loud. Good luck

@Chris16 I've had a follow up mri recently from the original taken a year ago for a follow up on white matter spots in an uncommon location. Bottom line they dont know what they are but they are not multiplying so told me not to worry. The doctor added everyone of middle age has wite spots...

If @SawamAUS didn't post this, us people living in Australia would never have heard of this tragic suicide and the real cause of doing so. Thank you for making us aware and you too @Tamika. The majority of suicides due to tinnitus I suggest are not recorded nor known with any tinnitus online...

Hi @Mentos . Exactly how I would describe it too! Assume you have acoustic trauma injury like me from a loud concert hence your comments. I certainly relate to them! Irritated in silence as well as with masking sounds/music. I also believe I experience hearing fatigue with general noise levels.

I can't do the work I used to do @Sam Bridge . Either trade desk sales or as a technician due to the associated noises. In my social life I avoid groups of people, parties, playing around with some things in my shed, dont enjoy music any longer and avoid some public places I used to frequent...

Not from Australia then @Sam Bridge ? Doubt it. I have never seen a sign, read a warning or verbally been warned. Wish I had!!! I don't know if it would be widely known as you'd think. Take me. It's not illegal for these venues so no lawsuit so no media or print coverage. Tell your...

1. My countries government and associated health department for absolutely no awareness of tinnitus to the public 2. The ENTs who see new patients weekly being damaged by recreational noise but don't do anything proactive 3. Musicians that are aware enough of the dangers to protect their own...

Yes! Mine are more regular and constant than they were earlier on after onset. I'm 14 months in. Certainly they have got more often and generalised areas over the last 6 months. Used to be located just above or rear of ear area headaches. It sucks to have a sore head most of the time...

Where are you from? I have T from a single concert too

Good question @Cyberdrink and interesting responses. For me i had no t to start with. Went to loud concert and left with ringing ears. Next morning deaf in left ear. Hearing came back later in day but badly distorted. Ringing got worse and more nasty over the first month but mostly heard in...

Yes I've tried olive oil too but didn't have anywhere near the same wetting of the ear wax result. Yes ent should be able to use tools only to get out your wax. They may also try and convince you to suction the wax too. Up to you if you accept. The ENTs I've seen have known very little...

Go to the venue @alexandrrax . Sell your ticket for what you can get and listen to the concert from OUTSIDE the venue. I went to one concert that has destroyed my life as I knew it. Buy some dvds of her concert and watch in the safety of your home. Don't make your nerve damage worse, where...

I did the same within the first few weeks of t. Waxsol seemed to make it sting around the ear drum. When I finally saw the doc again for syringing he said it looked a little red. Sadly it didn't end my t like he suggested and a week later with no change he confirmed loud noise t damage and...

You know how I feel in detail @Tamika and vice versa about this very issue. I have thought more on it today. I am actually thinking a coordinated combined effort to really hit head on the so called health authorities in Australia which are meant to protect our health. Maybe we should have a...

@LukeYoung it is meant to assist in the nerve repair I believe but go off advice found on other threads regarding vitamins after loud noise exposure. It was my 8th* concert in 40 years......... * not counting outdoor gigs where I was so far back it was less loud than a backyard bbq. I remember...

@LukeYoung I feel for you. Your story is very very similar to mine sadly apart from the vomiting. I assume you, like me, didn't know this was possible to happen. Stay positive as hard as that is because your tinnitus will go through a lot of change in the beginning and will hopefully fade...

By all means give us the db reading but it seems like it is loud and even doubling up protection by ear plugs and muffs isn't enough. Bone conduction still happens around 35 to 40db down. I worked in 3 days of 70db with earplugs and my ears rang more after plus ear pain was increased. I quit...

Thank you for that @Aaron123 but wow did they make some assumptions in those predictions! They just plotted the loss as a linear curve over the subjects life where real result data was only taken at ages 27 and 32..... No explanation for the woman's results being much better also! Just shows...

I feel for you @hartje5. I'm in a very similar boat. Im 13 months into sudden onset tinnitus. I'm not used to it yet. I have upper primary school children and they are now the sole reason to keep going. I unfortunately have lost interest or fun in anything I was keen on before. I must say...

@patrick james I'm not sure if you are still chasing an answer. After the stupid rock concert my T - ears started to ring. I got ear fullness and aching to add to the noise like @Sebastians a month after too. It took to the 4th month for the pressure and soreness to start to reduce. By month...

41yo, 14khz from markkus link. Have tinnitus ringing that is just above 14khz but have also lower frequency pitches than this in both ears. Previously done test online from another site with the same result.

@Mike TerMaaten I am 41. Been to 9 concert gigs as well as clubbing when I young. The last gig and the one to do the acute damage was certainly the loudest. I believe in everything in moderation but cruelly learnt it doesn't apply to my hearing. From my teenage years to when I turned 40 I...

You can add me to that list too sadly. if only I knew!!! Musicians don't give a flying hoot about your hearing health. Sad but brutal truth!! @JasonP I use "sound meter" on android but interested to see other's suggestions

Health Ed Learning about STD's and safe sex not tinnitus and how to avoid it getting it!!

It is my first year anniversary of going to that indoor rock concert and being up the front. I still can't get past beating myself up for putting my hearing at risk as I'm the person that always wore earmuffs while using the mower. I had attended my best friends father's funeral the day before...

Thanks @Leigh H for your story. Hopefully I'll be in your position one day although it has already been longer since onset for me. Can I ask you what state you are from?

I got the advice to listen through the ringing and don't play the role of the victim. Gave me an ENT referral Started me on antidepressants and herbs. Call this help if you want. No fix......

Unbelievable Torture

I'm interested in this topic. After a year since T I went to the movies for the first time this week. I think the sound level app is reasonably accurate and for the movie "mother's day" it was around 63db. It didn't feel loud but I did take my earplugs with me and I am sure other movies like...

For me my ceiling fan isn't loud enough nor near to my high frequency T whine

@Cillian i had something similar at the start for me. I felt wobbly on my feet at times (even hit the walls) and I wouldn't dare to run. My back and neck was as stiff as and quite sore for ages. Never believed it could be like that. But like @seal said it was down to my (at the time)...

Good luck Deb. I am in adelaide so can't participate. Let's hope Neil is on to something. Any others from melbourne australia here.......?

Thanks @lymebite with your response to @Pumpkinate I am from Adelaide, Australia. I have not come across this place in searches I have done. After looking at their website would the use of LLLT assist where acoustic assault is involved like pumplinate's gun firing or my single rock concert...

I am 40 and blame myself, the music industry and those who I pay my taxes to. I feel if I didn't attend the concert almost a year ago my hearing wouldn't have broken and I would have gone through the rest of my life fine because it is not made up of any other loud noises. If an vehicle air bag...

Not at all. In forty years of living I'd never heard the word tinnitus or that ringing in the ears after a concert could become permanent or even that they rang because of nerve damage. Not one written or spoken piece of advice from anyone to be careful around loud noise because tinnitus can...

Done Sorry I took so long. I hope all the information helps the study. The questions were good and well constructed.

Please world find us a cure or reduce the severity of our symptoms

Thanks @Tamika for your comments and @valeri for posting. I know it is only a small step but that conversation that took place on Australian radio with the Professor of Hearing, Language and the Brain, and Director of Hearing Research at Macquarie University, NSW, Australia shows us that...

Stick my jaw out or thrust it side to side (which is uncomfortable and unnatural in feeling) or clench my jaw and the T volume increases slightly. In the early days of my T the perceived increase in volume was greater than doing those same things now. I did have a sore, stiff neck and a sore...

Yes it can @Cyberdrink as I am proof of that!! I have noise induced T. Walked into a rock concert with fine hearing and walked out with T which got worse in the first 2 months. I can put my fingers on my forehead and push against it with elevates the loudness of T. Likewise I can rotate my...

For all things I have learnt in life and for all things I have read or heard not one time was there "ears ringing following loud noises can be permanent". Just that statement alone would have had me diving deeper In life there are warnings for all kind of stuff but where are the warnings...

I just freeze up waiting for the new louder tone to disappear. I am so pleased that with time I've experienced way less occurrences of this as it scares the heck out of me. I have had these fleeting tones for many hours but more often they last less than a few minutes and yes like markku it...

I do totally agree with you @valeri A lot would not want to say they had tinnitus incase it jeopardized future jobs or learning. Famous people included more than most. I lost my job 4 months ago just after advising them (2 weeks before losing employment) I had tinnitus from the concert I...

While it seems like a dumbass question @Hardwell asked I am not convinced ALL tinnitus is in the brain. My left ear is a higher pitch than my right ear. When I block my ear with my ear lobe the whine becomes louder just like putting one ear on a pillow. So how would that make it a brain thing...

Adelaide here. Good list. Should organise a meet up. Pity Australia is such a large place!

Rest In Silence James. May your death not be in vain. Come on. If all countries declared there will be no wars or armed forces in 2016 and the freed up resources poured in the worlds medical problems imagine how 2017 would be for suffers of all conditions....... lots would be solved or at...

The Angels indoors at The Gov, Hindmarsh. Worst day of my life. Adelaide Oval have had The Rolling Stones and AC/DC. It is the ear pain that is the worst. The Health department did email me back but gave me little suggestions of groups to contact. Free earplugs to every concert goer with a...

I have tinnitus from a single concert 7 months ago in a popular venue for live concerts. I did contact one law firm and they told they hadn't been able to prosecute successfully in the past and wouldn't try again. I have yet to have the strength to contact another legal firm but I want to...

Since I have no job now partially due to T I'd sell my house I own to go back to being pre T (no horrible head noise, no ear pain/discomfort, no abnormal sensitivity to sound) If that would happen then I could work my ass off and own a house again by the time I retire but more importantly I...

Hi @MJC my ears are very much the same. While I find the noise very annoying it's the aching soreness of my inner ear that annoys me possibly most of all and nothing you can get a break from. I find myself clenching my jaw and the sides of my head with headache. Not sure which occurs first...

Sadly that is so true. I was with the doctor today after getting my MRI results. He said we've run out of things to check. Push the sound away........yeah right! Then compared it to a damaged body joint. Yeah right again..... he means well but f#ck. I wrote to our health department over...

@curtis1988 it does sound stupid but it is exactly what I am thinking. I've been single for 2.5 years since the cheating wife left and was having a great successful and fun time of it using dating sites. Now 5 months into T & no one from those sites now will want to be with the damaged...

I see Albert was last online a day after @OptimusPrimed posted on dec 5 2014. I wonder what happened to Albert? Can wood breaking from axe impact ever be as loud as a gunshot? What's everyone guess? (Yes I am using this a distraction)

Ditto for me too. I have two boys in a shared care arrangement after their mum took off to be with a younger man. I was doing a great job with them but now as I am in survival mode and I am not the fun, thoughtful, interesting, energetic father I once was pre T. Absolutely destroys me...

Please don't say that. I am totally hanging on to the hope that relief will be found in the next 5 years. I have various noises in each ear and there is no way I could keep going if there was no hope of relief in the very near future. I am 5 months in.

Hi @Hinnie8 I was at the 4 month stage when i started taking mirtizapine. I really held off for 4 weeks after being prescribed it. I too had given up the things i used to do. I enjoyed zero about life and was all consumed by T. The anti depressant has let me sleep again and not feel so anxious...

I really want to know about this. At the 1.5 month mark my ears felt so full and pressurized i wanted to ram a pen in my ears before they blew up. Yea seriously it really felt like that. Now at month 4 since god awful T from a rock concert the ears are not full now but are "sore" raw feeling...

Left ear Hiss and and high voltage electricity overhead wires buzz steady at a reasonably high frequency. Right ear Whining buzz at a lower frequency than left ear that does flutuate. On the odd occasion it has stopped there is a hiss/rumble behind it but not loud. Right ear is more annoying...