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Louder than the drill yes but still wasn’t uncomfortable for me personally. It’s only loud when they put it in your mouth which again is only like 5-10 seconds every now and then, similar to the drilling. She took it out when it wasn’t needed in there.

Mine was at the back wisdom tooth on the left hand side on the top. So probably as close to the ear as possible. The drill is not too loud, I promise. I thought it would be worse but it wasn’t too bad at all. The vibrations are kinda bad but still not awful or uncomfortable for me personally...

I do actually. Just not as bad as when I first had it. When I first had it, I could barely endure a normal conversation. Nowadays only certain noises trigger pain like dogs barking etc but I’d say it’s ranged in severity from a 1 to a 3/10. For example, after my MRI a few months it triggered it...

Just got back. The dentist drilling is not loud imo, not loud enough to cause a spike. The vibrations however are bothersome and you can feel and hear them in your head and in your ears. He used a very thick drill and it was upper back wisdom tooth so the vibrations were very close to my ear...

I just tried my electric toothbrush in my mouth with and without my noise-cancelling headphones on and it does appear to sound a lot louder in my head with the noise-cancelling headphones... might just be my model of headphones but it does seem to be some kind of occlusion effect happening, so...

Thank you. That’s really reassuring. They want to do all 3 fillings in one long session. Do you think I should avoid that as not to be exposed for that long or it’s really not that bad?

I’m due to have some dental fillings later on this evening. Many posts have been made on this subject, with the main advice being don’t wear earplugs or earmuffs to avoid the occlusion effect, and get the dentist to drill 10 second on 10 second off. However, has anyone ever worn...

Currently going through the process of trying to get a head MRI in the UK and trying to avoid exactly this. Which hospital was your MRI at and do you remember the make of the MRI unit? Was it in a mobile unit or inside the hospital? Hope it’s gotten easier for you.

Back on here after a couple of years. I need a head MRI done (unavoidable unfortunately) and am looking to get the quietest experience possible in the UK. I’ve read a lot of horror stories about MRI making people’s tinnitus worse and @Ed209’s story was really shocking. In the UK we don’t...

I know I will try a festival again one day for sure, you can pick how far away you stand from the speakers etc, I think it could be fairly safe. A nightclub I highly doubt I’d do again.

Probably around the 1-1.5 year mark.

Thanks for the reply. I do worry about how some of the things I’m doing can make it worse for sure. That’s why I’ve avoid nightclubs completely but still try and do everything else... the past weekend I spent hours in loud bars and walking round the streets of London with sirens going past...

Just time. I avoided clubs and festivals etc but I still went to bars and pubs with earplugs, the gym, on airplanes etc. Just don’t be stupid and hopefully with time it resolves itself.

I’ve had this for years, visual snow, severe eye floaters and flashes of lights etc. I went to A&E a couple of times and saw an ophthalmologist at my local NHS doctor and even saw an ophthalmologist at London Moorfields eye hospital and Birmingham eye hospital. They had no explanation for it...

I was seen on the NHS for tinnitus and hyperacusis. They basically said don’t overuse earplugs especially in normal noise level environments, use sound enrichment e.g a fan where possible, and gave me white noise generators which I used about once, and told me it would get better with time...

When I first got it at 19 and mentioned it to people I know, a couple of them said they have it but were a lot older than me - I’m yet to meet anyone early 20s like me with it in person. They didn’t seem bothered by it and continued to go to clubs and festivals most of the time without earplugs...

If you’re suffering so bad that you’d rather go blind then I’m sorry to hear that and I hope your situation improves. The vast majority of people with tinnitus can still work, and still live their life exactly how it was before albeit avoiding loud places. For the minority (us folk here) it is...

No one would rather be blind than have tinnitus.

I can't pinpoint exactly but pretty sure it just went away one day.

Very unlikely a laptop fan is going to spike your tinnitus. If anything it will probably be a soothing white noise to help mask it, unless you have the reactive kind of tinnitus. I use a huge fan on full power every night to sleep. When that broke and I was waiting for a new one I turned all...

I had a whistling noise that would react to fans, water, printers etc. It went away after about a year and now it’s on and off like 50:1. I only really experience it now during a spike for a couple of days. That was the worst kind of tinnitus by far, no way could I last with that.

I can think of 100s of disabilities that are worse than tinnitus... blindness,deafness,losing a limb, ALS... That’s not to say tinnitus can’t be extremely debilitating though.

Time to look for a new job I think.

@Yas It got much better for me, not really the loudness of the tinnitus but my reaction to it. I was in a real bad place with tinnitus and depression for the first year. I’ve had it for over 3 years now and the past 1.5 year. Of my life has basically been how I was pre tinnitus. It can be...

Have you still never been to a club? If you have, how did it go?

Hey everyone, I've not posted here or visited in a very long time, but Tinnitus Talk was essential for me coping for the first year of tinnitus I thought it would be good to post an update. The first year was very bad for me, crippling depression caused by tinnitus, the failure of a...

So you can tolerate 100 dB but you tinnitus worsened to astonishing levels where you need benzos to function some days from listening to classic music on a speaker system at a normal volume?

I've had the 3D scanning at ACS, first time they didn't fit properly so I sent them back and got my ear rescanned and they still weren't a tight fit. The guy at ACS said "we usually do an impression and scanning together because the scanning alone isn't that accurate" Stick to the impressions...

Aplogoies if this is a stupid question but seeing as I've never had a colonoscopy before, is it loud? Will there be anything involved that could trigger my hyperacusis?

Because the sound of a gun coming out your TV is limited in volume by how loud you set the speakers etc. I think you're worrying over nothing.

@Michael Leigh

If it's only a part time job while you're in education etc that pays next to no money ask yourself is it really worth it

Pm me

Took 40mg, to reduce side effects... If it's still bad tomorrow I'll take 60mg. I weigh 85kg.

Was in the gym and on the wall they have a rack full of barbells. The entire rack fell off the wall which made a massive smashing noise with all the metal bars smashing off each other and I was about 4 metres away. I have about 15-20 prednisone pills on hand. Should I take them asap? I hate...

I train 6 times a week with peltor x4a ear defenders. Recently moved to a new gym and they play the music a lot louder (80db on phone) but with the ear defenders on I haven't had any spikes. I don't like earplugs because the pressure in my head when deadlifting and squatting feels horrible and...

There will always be white knights, females love them as it makes them feel validated. However they're nothing more than beta orbiters.

You're not sobering, that's the world we live in. We live in a feminist society. This is a tinnitus board so I won't bore people with mgtow and redpil but good to know there are other individuals here who share the same thoughts.

Kinda, mgtow is kind an extension of red pill. I'm not mgtow but I respect people that do and fully understand why.

Where are you living? In the UK steroids for noise trauma isn't a standard procedure but if you take articles or evidence to your gp they might be willing to prescribe it also if you pay privately. I'm not staying you need steroids, I'm just saying if you do need them there's probably a way

did you say it caused tinnitus in your previously good ear? That makes no sense to me how two plates clanking can cause tinnitus... If that was the case everyone would have it. Also it's not like that ear was compromised like your other ear. Maybe it's something else causing your tinnitus and...

If you haven't taken it already it's probably too late anyway. I used to run to the doctors for pred every time i was exposed to a loud noise, begging my gp, walk in centers etc when it's totally unnecessary unless it's a severe acoustic shock where you have muffled hearing etc e.g gun shots...

I lift 6 days a week. The people that own the gym are chill as its a small family run gym. They turn the music down abit when I get there because they know about my fucked up ears. I used to wear earplugs but the pressure that it builds up inside your ears when preforming squats, deads etc can...

A decent read for anyone willing to accept the harsh truth. http://www.redpillhandbook.com

Wise words

Took the words right out of my mouth. Are you into red pill?

Where did he say he was going to go to loud places? Living life to the fullest doesn't mean he is going to increase his T.

sounds like you have reactive tinnitus

Where do you just pull these random numbers from....

Michael, The device costs £290.. Hardly expensive. people spend more on wng's. Just out of curiosity why have you never mentioned then device before to try and help people, seeing as it helped you?

It's 3 years away, I wouldn't worry about it now. I don't think anyone on here would recommend shooting guns though

It's the 5th of November, everybody in the UK with tinnitus knows what that means. Hearing protection inside, necessary or not?

Mine has recently come back but in both ears this time after weeks without it...

Went to a Halloween party last night and stood outside for most of the night. The host came out and asked why I was standing outside, to which I said I have tinnitus and it's too loud in there for me (even with 27 dB foam plugs). He then explained to me how he's had tinnitus for 3 years as he's...

Check my recent posts, it's still here and probably 5x worse even though I don't go to loud places, don't wear headphones, use ear muffs in the gym and on my commute, girlfriend left me, disconnected from friends, impossible to socialise etc. Only positive I'm sleeping well and my hyperacusis is...

Care to link any reputable articles mentioning the negative side effects of creatine?

I've heard this but sadly it hasn't given me any relief, not that I take it for that anyway.