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Thank you, fellow Brightonian! Some good points/info, there. I use noise-reducing headphones and sometimes wear my moulded plugs too, while using them!

A shamefully belated thank you for these answers, guys. This very much makes sense to me and relieves my worry a little, so it's much appreciated.

Hello you lovely people. I'd like to ask your advice on something which has been worrying me for a while. I've had relatively low-level tinnitus due to noise-related damage since 2008. Or at least, it feels fairly low-level these days because I've become fairly habituated to it - I listen to...

Rhea! Really sorry to have not replied - I need to work out whether it's possible to subscribe to threads here. :) I guess it was a pressurised feeling, although the main sensation was this weird warmth. And it hasn't happened since!

Thanks Ashley. Interestingly, those minor episodes of fuzzy-dizziness have stopped since Friday in the pub.

I have noise-induced tinnitus, at a low-to-medium level, I'd say. Last week, pretty much every day, I experienced an occasional 'fuzzy' feeling in my left ear, which made me a little dizzy. Not so dizzy that I couldn't stand or walk straight, but I noticed it. It didn't last too long and...

The only time I've had a really bad experience while flying, since having had T, was when I wore custom-moulded plugs. Completely messed me up.

My EarPlanes have arrived. I've been given some good advice on this forum, for other ways to lessen the potential effects of high-altitude pressure - things like sucking a hard-boiled sweet and keeping your mouth open through take-off and descent. My question now is: do EarPlanes remove the...

Hello folks! I have noise-induced tinnitus, which occasionally takes on an edge of hyperacusis. I'm keen to play the H down here, though, because it seems that mine is nothing compared to the H that some poor folk experience. It feels like my ears have become vulnerable to 'injury' from loud...

Going back to Spain in a week-and-a-half and am naturally nervous after my experience last year (see earlier in thread). If it hadn't been for this forum, though, I'd have felt completely in the dark as to what was advisable or not - so thanks again! I also just ordered some EarPlanes, so will...

Thanks Karl - I really appreciate you taking the time to explain. A hearing aid that only amplifies certain frequencies is pretty amazing, isn't it! In the grand scheme history, we're lucky that helpful tech is available. And of course we'll be even luckier if stem cell research comes through...

One thing I don't understand about hearing aids: don't they amplify the outside world, directly into your ear? How does this not risk doing more damage/worsening your Tinnitus? I'm sure there's simple reason: I just can't think of it, perhaps because I don't fully understand how they work? :)

Thank you Sven - I do indeed have earplugs moulded to my ears, with two different sets of filters for different situations. Lately, though, it's the situations which I don't think are so loud - like the noisy chatter in a bar, for instance - which seem to cause minor damage to my ears. At the...

Thanks Sven. I think I know that 'strange' feeling. I just worry about my hearing slowly crumbling away, as frequencies become unavailable. A major worry is that vicious circle of needing to play things, like TV, louder in order to be able to understand them, but damaging your hearing a little...

Would still like to hear from anyone who shares these frequency-jangling/hearing loss symptoms. :)

Morning/afternoon/evening, all (depending on where you are in the world) I think that I find hearing loss even scarier than tinnitus, and wondered how many people share the symptoms I've been having in that respect. It feels as though my ears are quite easily damaged these days. Last night, I...

The only downside, for me, about using masking sounds during the night, is that I then have to switch them off in the morning, thus making me aware of the T first thing in the morning. Still, swings and roundabouts...

Wow. Congratulations on emerging from the other side of that in one piece! Inspiring. Was there one moment of 'turn around' that you could pinpoint?

Hi there Steelbanks: I mainly wanted to echo the supportive sentiments of others here. I recently had a taste of the kind of raw, fearful panic you've been experiencing, when the first night of a holiday was disrupted by hearing loss and really loud T in one ear. I found myself walking...

You too sir. Thanks again.

Thanks Marrku. My ears already do have a sensitivity to certain higher pitches, and I certainly notice loudness more in general, so you probably are right: perhaps this course of action will only add to that!

Lately, it occurred to me that the shower is probably the loudest noise I subject myself to on the average day - certainly on days when I stay at home. So I've started wearing waterproof earplugs. Just curious, really: does anyone else do this?

Lately, I've been using a noise-measuring app on my iPhone. If I'm out somewhere where the music/noise is borderline and hard to tell if it's too loud, I use app the measure it. If it's anywhere around 80-85 decibels, I put the earplugs in. Using the app makes me feel slightly as though the T...

A couple of weeks ago, my ears got screwed up after a flight to Spain and I posted on here after a night of having screaming tinnitus in my left ear. I was worried it would be like that forever. Perhaps tellingly, after getting reassurance both on here and on Twitter, it improved (or my...

Do they? Serious question: is this a generally accepted phenomenon?

Well, thankfully I didn't experience anything like the bad issues on the return flight as I did on the flight there. Thanks again to those who offered advice. I didn't use a decongestant in the end, but did suck sweets and kept my mouth open during descent. Only had the usual 'tube clogging'...

Thanks very much for the tip, Robert: will do.

Thank you - that's very useful and reassuring. :) I'm having trouble working out how to change seats, but y'know what, we were also towards the back of the plane in October and I had no adverse effects. So I think I'm just going to go without ear plugs, suck that boiled sweet and maybe find a...

Thanks Markku! A fine forum you have here - I'm learning a lot already, such as the apparent fact that people have different kinds of tinnitus. We were right at the back of the plane on the way over and are in the same seats going back. Should I try to change? Then again, on EasyJet planes...

Thank you very much for replying! Sadly I don't have much earplug choice, out here in Spain, but can have a look at the airport. Tempted to wear no plugs at all, as I didn't notice any consequences last time I flew, in October. Hmmm...

I'm on holiday in Spain at the moment and had a bad experience on the way. Now I'm wondering what to do on the flight back. Never had any bad tinnitus-related experiences with flying before, but did something different on this flight. This year, I've been feeling that my ears are becoming...

Hello folks! I've had tinnitus for about five years now, mainly thanks to stupidly playing in-ear phones too loud. If I could turn back time, etc etc... This is the first tinnitus forum I've signed up for. Looking forward to chatting to those with the same/similar condition and hopefully...