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Hi @Gman have you experienced this? I pretty much wear plugs all the time and everywhere at the moment. Sometimes with muffs as well. Gotten to the point where I took the muffs off today (still had the plugs) and voices seemed so, so loud. Gonna have to try and lessen my dependency on...

Is it possible to adjust to hyperacusis or is managing it the best we can do? I have been wearing earplugs a lot and it's gotten to the stage now where voices seem incredibly loud. Concerned that soon I'll just be stuck at home in silence.

Woke up with an additional humming noise. Hate myself and the sneezer. What is the point

Anyone’s tinnitus worsen when exposed to noise from sneezing? Took my plugs out for a clean. The wife then sneezed loudly (about 4 feet away). Is this cause for concern? Ear feels a bit full now.

Hello everyone, I am suffering a spike from an exposure to loud pipe noise. I am staying at a friends and removed my earplugs following dinner (6 of us and played crashing about etc, it is best for me to wear plugs). As I’ve removed my plugs, literally 30 seconds later someone has jumped in...

@Contrast I wear earplugs as muffs as I have noise induced tinnitus with mild hearing loss at high frequencies. I don’t want to make the T worse so I wear plugs and muffs when out and about. Does that make sense? Stupid to do?

That is correct. Was cleaning my earplugs by a window facing the road and car went pasta in wet and I felt pain in R ear and a fullness. Also got another low pure tone which sounds like a saw whirring. Hoping all this subsides. Feeling anxious with it and want to be back to normal. Beating...

Pain and fullness was caused by a passing car (when indoors with windows shut) and not wearing plugs or muffs. My tinnitus was caused by loud music and worsened by stress (possibly). Where do you protect your ears @Contrast Do you protect in the home? Also had a dog bark about 2 feet from my...

@Contrast not really noticed it before today (with pain) as I’ve been wearing plugs and earmuffs pretty solidly for months. Basically scared to make the t worse, that’s why. Noticed the pain today and fullness on hearing the sound though so now worried ive damaged myself overprotecting and also...

Hi Michael, Thanks for getting in touch and answering my pained call. If someone has been overprotecting for months, in your opinion are sounds that most people would be ok with dangerous to them (before adjustment) or can you go cold turkey from protecting. Essentially, I have a new tone now...

Someone, please please help me!

I usually wear earplugs and muffs when out and about. I have recently been wearing them to sleep as well as I’m sleeping at my family home which is opposite a main road. I took the plugs out briefly this morning to clean them and as I did so a car passed by. The windows were shut. On my iPhone...

Yes. Not overly loud to many, but is in a city centre

I agree with @dpdx - nightclubs are truly awful environments whether one has tinnitus or not. I have been to a few post tinnitus onset and never enjoyed them as I would have liked due to being constantly obsessed with the noise levels

Whilst an unhelpful generalisation is it not borne out of what Bam describes above? That most people are told that they have to get used to it by their GPs and so choose not to follow up (classified as habituated), that fewer people kill themselves than who choose to ‘live with it’ (classified...

Thanks guys. Just looking into her eyes and hugging her and it breaks my heart. She isn’t in pain, but she’s sedate and tired and hanging on. She’s looking at me like she knows it’ll soon be time. I can’t imagine being without her. I got her after a bereavement and she helped me so much. Just...

Got told today that my dog only has days to live (had her 9 years and she is like a sibling to me). All day my head has been all over the place. I had to collect from the hospital today. A friend drove me. I was wearing plugs and muffs as didn’t want anything to worsen. As we left the hospital...

I get this as well

Hi @GregCA I have no experience with these. Are they more effective than earmuffs? Less occlusion?

I agree. I’m just concerned that I’ve spiked and made things worse momentarily raising voice/shouting. Praying it settles

Thanks @Michael Leigh for your feedback and information. Whilst I understand in theory what you are saying and largely agree, I feel trapped between that as an end point and everyday noises and spikes that make it hard to function. I’m trying to fight each day and wouldn’t feel able without...

Thanks @Alue I find the musicians earplugs to not be as bad as muffs. I have used the ACS range. Do you find the occlusion effect a problem? Does it spike T?

Just a quick post asking for some advice on wearing ear muffs. I have been wearing them a lot as my neighbour has building work going on next door. They are fine when not communicating, but I notice earlier that when raising my voice to shout to my wife (over keys that she was looking for)...

Hi guys, No, I didn't go in the end. I drove my wife to the show and had dinner with her beforehand, but missed it. She was ok with it and told me that while the talking and most of the show wasn't that loud, there were two pyrotechnic explosions at the end and a lot of audience wolf-whilsting...

thank you @glynis would you consider this type of show as too risky or too dangerous? Would you go?

Hello everyone, I have a dilemma. My wife and I have had tickets to see the 'League of Gentleman' live show at the Apollo in London since Christmas. The show is tonight. I do not know whether to go or not and feel anxious about the possible noise and venue. For those not aware of the...

Hi guys, Does anyone have any views on the safety of running with earplugs in? I live near quite a few roads and do not want to run unprotected along or by them. I noticed today that when I had the earplugs in, my footfall felt loud. Is this enough to cause damage? Any experience and advice...

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I wake up and this new volume is here instantly raging away. It’s tsking me to a very dark place. I don’t want to die, but I can’t see how I can live with this any more

Jesus man, that feels like hell. I've been trapped before when at foreign weddings; one of my friends once got married in France and told me that the party the night before would be a quiet cheese and wine affair. We got driven to this remote house. Turned out there was cheese and wine, but...

thanks man. Did you have protection? Anything you can do to limit the time of the spike?

Thanks Glynis, I had noise reductions plugs in, but I wear them so often and limit my time in these environments that maybe I was not used to it and it was too much, despite being people talking. I was exposed for 2 hours. I feel sick with it now and traumatised. @glynis do you go to similar...

Thank you both, guys, for responding. I currently feel so sick and panicked and full or regret and remorse. what was I doing. My ears are now singing away. I am praying, PRAYING, that it will settle. @Wolfears I am definitely anxious and was during the meal. I had the moulded plugs and kept...

Hi guys, I am experiencing the big fear here wrought large. I visited a restaurant with several school friends I hadn't seen in sometime. The restaurant had no music. On my iPhone app the noise ranged from 75-93db. It was the noise of groups of people talking and eating. I had earplugs which...

Not sure that advice helps with depression...

Agree and I’m not too fussed about them, but I mean just going out and doing things. Yesterday I didn’t attend any of those things and was confronted by a man playing bag pipes and road traffic noise as I was taking a photo. And then driving along a road in a hire car with my in laws. None of...

Thanks Bill. I don’t see how I can engage in life again, even with protection

Hey bill, no fullness, but definite spiking. Hate this and the in laws for taking me out

Thanks bro @dpdx You struggle to sleep with spikes?

I hope so. Struggling to sleep with this noise. Had other exposures as well. Was driving along and the car was apparently 100db on certain road surfaces! I had plugs in and phones firmly on and it still felt loud! Felt trapped as I couldn’t get home without driving this car. Finally, I had to...

Thank you, Glynis, I will try. Just wish things weren’t so noisy. Concerned I’ve done some permanent damage here

Should this spike settle. I am trying to sleep now but the noise is unbearable. Awful. Loud pure tone

Do you reckon a minute exposure is enough to cause permanent damage? Bloody hell, I couldn’t get away from it.

hi all, I am visiting relatives in Scotland. They live near Gretna Green, so we decided to visit. At the visitor centre there was a man playing bagpipes. He wasn’t when we arrived, hence I went in. As we were leaving he came outside and began playing. I had earplugs in and left after a minute...

thank thanks Bill

Think I've permanently worsened things, Bill?

I usually wear ACS 26dbs. I wear these a lot though, like most of the time so worry now about their effectiveness. Scared with all this and feel that I do not know where to turn or how to live anymore

I know, so I do not know why this is happening. Should the noise settle?

No, we are talking normal table noise, laugher and joking. Should this noise settle?

of course not, nothing is worth worsening the T. With earplugs and considering it is people talking, I thought I would be safe with ER earplugs. Guess I was wrong, or maybe I'm being paranoid. Either way, horrible spike now.

hi friends, A quick message of enquiry! I am wondering when you wear plugs? I am dealing with sound sensitivity but also with tinnitus which seems to spike regularly. It is bringing me to my knees at times. Right now I have a pure tone spike which was caused by attending a BBQ with 5 friends...

so this should not be permanent spiking? given that the sounds are not 'objectively' dangerous?

hi TT family, I wanted to know whether it is normal/anyone has experienced waking up with increased sensitivity or whether this is due to overuse of muffs and plugs. I sleep in muffs at the moment as it is so hot in the UK that my wife insists on opening all the windows. We live near a road...

Dog bark has just loudly spiked my tinnitus. Little Westie sitting by my feet was clocked at 102 dB (I was actually playing around with sound metre when he barked). Shit. Anyone had this? Does it settle?

hi @Bart I cannot help with what is causing your spike, but I can tell you that I am in the same situation. Wishing you well and all the best with the coming birth!

hi all, Hope you have been enjoying the warm weather (UK!) Just wondering, as I have been out playing golf and walking as to whether wind noise is harmful? I am talking of the kind that is everyday and not storm levels. Would people wear plugs to deal with this? Can it cause harm?

Fair enough. Didn't mean any disrespect by it, @Bill Bauer - it just caught me as amusing

I've used plugs and muffs in combination for flights. Did experience a mild spike when sitting at the back of the plane for 8 hours, but this went. When sitting near the front or middle, I have never had any problems. Rear of plane is significantly louder

I'm not laughing at those exposed to noise in anyway or suffering spikes because of it. I would not make light of that at all; and would likely be concerned myself if exposed in this way. I was laughing more at the language used...the 'if you see anyone with a balloon, drop everything and leave'...

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