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Has anyone experienced something similar? This happened to me earlier today. I was outside and had to take a very important call from my boss in the afternoon. I was sitting on a bench, only about 2-3 meters away from a parked car. The area was generally quiet, so I didn't think much of it. I...

Do noises such as microphone/amplifier feedback screeching cause damage at otherwise "safe" volume levels? It got me wondering as I was in a store earlier where one of the employees would change the PA system from lower volume music to what appeared to be much louder broadcast of his voice to...

These insects really caught me off guard tonight. I had a tennis match tonight at a park that was absolutely swarmed by these things. They were loud enough that I was having trouble hearing opponents call the score out from the other side of the net. The courts were surrounded by woods and so...

Haven't seen it mentioned, but is there any concern for when the straps of a face mask "snap" into your ear like a slingshot? I was wearing a P95 mask for cleaning the bathroom that has heavier duty, thick straps that are a pretty tight fit. When I was removing the mask, I lost grip and the...

This happened to me another time, and again just a few minutes ago. I was tilted to the side and turning the knob of the shower to get it a bit warmer and got a 'full force' stream of hot water right onto my ear. It definitely sent me into worry as can happen with previous acoustic injuries...

I did not notice a spike when I had a ton of dental work done in my 20s.

If it feels loud, I wear earplugs. But I don't wear them while eating.

I think you're right about the closed door plus tile floors. Even in the kitchen which is more open but similar flooring I was surprised that opening the upper level sliding hard plastic door in the fridge is around 115 dB when it hits the side of the fridge. Like with a toilet seat, it's...

Those are what I'm used to and have. The soft seats are great.

Old thread, but this just happened to me... freaking twice! I'm staying with family and in one of the bathrooms there is an older style toilet seat that can slam down. It was extremely loud each time and scared the crap out of me. So I put on some earmuffs and measured with a sound meter and...

I've always lived in areas where shooting guns and hunting are very popular. It sounds like nearly everyone does not use hearing protection unless they're at a range where they are required and handed out. I'm still pretty annoyed that the times I went to summer camp and we had outdoor target...

One thing I was wondering is if NIOSH applies to a single occurence. It sounds like the charts are more for workers who are exposed to loud noises year round like construction workers, landscapers, sound mixers, or whatever. You get the idea. I worry about the times I'm caught off guard like...

Preface: I tried doing a search and those loud back-up beeps can apparently get quite loud and possibly up to 100 decibels. But how close to the source would that be? And how about the volume of the forklifts themselves? I'd imagine we have some current or former warehouse workers who have...

Sheesh, these are damn loud. I was outside for a moment earlier and a really loud thunder "boom" happened. I'd just run inside for a moment as I forgot something or I would've at least been in my car by that point. The NIOSH sound chart says unprotected ears can generally withstand up to around...

I just tested one of my clippers (trimmers?) against the meter (an actual sound level meter and not my cell phone). The peak was 104 dB when holding it up against the meter. Moving the clippers about 6 inches away lowered the noise to around 88 dB -90 dB. Like with the OP, the issue is the...

OP, did your tinnitus ever subside from this incident? I was at a Veterans Days parade in 2019 and multiple fire trucks turned on their sirens and tooted their horns. The problem was traffic was extremely congested and so they ended up stuck in place just a few feet in front of me and I was...

Yeah, I've screwed up and procrastinated. I did spray some ortho home defense and added baits, gel, etc but the problem is these things breed so quickly that if there are two then there's always the potential for many more. When I lived in an apt the pest control people would come out for free...

It's apparently not "common," but it's something that probably most working in an emergency/urgent care setting have seen before. German cockroaches are notoriously difficult to get rid of and are experts in hide and seek. I've found them in the oddest places like electrical outlets, etc...

https://www.webmd.com/drugs/drugreview-76594-ciprodex-otic-ear I think that was the main site for reviews that I saw and many people were complaining of tinnitus and hearing loss type side effects. Not sure why an ear drop would lead to these kinds of problems and I've been nervous to try it...

This is something I was thinking about earlier. I was riding in the car earlier with a family member and she was yelling into the phone since the person on the other line was hard of hearing. I was only about a foot away and so it sounded really loud and of course being in a small, enclosed...

I usually take a look at sites like RxList where people post their experiences with side effects. Anyone here taken it? As I mentioned, the doctor prescribed it kind of as a "just in case" thing and after 7 hours of the insect being in my ear said he didn't see any signs of infection. I'm not...

A German cockroach crawled into my ear around 5am. They're so annoying and really hard to get rid of infestations. Think they're most attracted to the cat food and they're camping out all over the place: in the cabinets, in the closet, etc. There were a bunch even hiding in the cable receiver...

It's hard to tell since I've had tinnitus since I was a teenager. It was mostly something that I just noticed while laying down to go to sleep or a really quiet room until November 2019 when I was exposed to several minutes of multiple 130 dB+ fire trucks at close range during a crowded parade...

It was actually just a private dinner. I'd been to this place many times and there was never a random karaoke setup and is generally pretty quiet. Had no idea there would be music or I would have stopped at the store first. For some reason the included keychain container always malfunctions and...

By the way, the karaoke system/speaker was similar to something like this: Would any of you be worried of permanent damage with an hour or so of exposure to one from 10-12 feet away from one of these playing dance and hip hop songs?

I got both Pfizer shots in the Spring and no noticeable change to tinnitus levels. I felt it was far more important to get a full vaccine regimen than worry about any potential tinnitus complications and I certainly do not like tinnitus, but the world does not revolve around me. I also got the...

I was at an indoor place earlier where a woman had what looked like a portable bluetooth karaoke system which was a huge speaker that lights up and plays music. She was playing dance and hip hop music very loud and it was extremely annoying to say the least. Friends and I were yelling at each...

Preface: All 5 of the upstairs smoke detector alarms went off at the same time and we could not seem to get them turned off. They were blaring 24/7 for 2 days straight. There was no sign of fire and the smoke detectors apparently are a combination of low battery and old/need replacing. Most of...

Smoke detectors seem to wildly vary in volume levels. One of them upstairs is way louder than the others. I took a dedicated decibel meter up there and held it from below and the sound readings were around 105 dB from 3 meters away or so. So it'd probably be 115 115 - 120 dB while holding it to...

Is occlusion effect "dangerous?" And does bumping into things with the muffs (such as walls) or bumping earmuffs with your hands/shoulders cause any permanent hearing damage? And how about the suction effect when pulling off a pair that is pretty tight on your head? I was wearing some muffs...

I was at a park earlier and someone started randomly shooting off fireworks and there were a lot of loud noises for a minute or so. Really loud "boom" at least 3-4 times. No idea how far away it was, but it sounded like it might've been in one of the neighborhoods across the street. Didn't see...

I had never heard of cicadas before but encountered them yesterday. They weren't the Brood X but were what I'm assuming were "annual" cicadas. I was walking around a lake/park that is completely surrounded by tons of tall trees. I've been there well over a hundred times in the past and had never...

Not many recent threads for restaurants, but it's nice to see workers concerned about their hearing. I was in a restaurant tonight that had concrete flooring and no sound damping, so there was a lot of echo. And it didn't help that they had the music cranked, in addition to several tables with...

I must have weird ears because I could never keep foam earplugs in the ears no matter how closely I tried to follow instructions. I've instead just used ER-20 types and slowly twisted them out. One thing people may forget about is to wash those kinds of earplugs regularly. With foam, they're...

That's what bothers me. It's one of those things where I'm sure at some point as a kid that I, and maybe even many of you, probably popped or stepped on a few balloons even at close range at some point. It also used to be fun throwing darts at underinflated balloons at the carnival. But the...

Balloons are so loud. I was in a store a few minutes ago that was having a sale and there were a few balloons in the aisles. Didn't think anything of it at all as I was shopping. I was in a few minutes before the place was closing and one of the employees walked by and started popping the...

Are these quoted NIOSH charts for a single exposure? For example, it says 100 decibels for 15 minutes. If you went, say half an hour at 100 dB, and then let your ears rest for a few days, would that still be a good chance for permanent hearing loss? I thought these charts were more for workers...

Is there any kind of ballpark range on how loud these "loud" store intercom setups tend to be? I was in a 2nd and Charles bookstore earlier where one of the obnoxious teenagers yelled at the top of her lungs into the intercom with long, drawn out monologues about the store closing soon...

Preface: The group I was hanging out with earlier decided to go to a local restaurant I'd never been to and so I followed along. I had no idea it was a restaurant where there were 2 guys playing amplified guitar rock the entire time and I unfortunately did not have my earplugs on me this...

How loud are the high powered backpack gas leaf blowers that guys with a busy landscaping business might use? A quick Google search seemed to suggest a broad range of 95-115 dB at "operator ear level." Is the absolute peak decibel point at his ears? What about me standing about 3 feet away and...

Sheesh, same thing happened again with the same family member. Honked the car in the closed garage to get my attention even though I was standing right there a few feet away. Loud as hell.

That's a good observation. I didn't think it could be under a second - perhaps they [horns] seem much longer since we play them out in our heads. Agree you could just replicate the moment as an experiment, but I'm not going to ask for it to be done again. I did find it quite interesting though...

Would a car honk inside of a typical home's two-car garage while the garage is CLOSED produce sound levels of the "permanent damage" variety? Decibel numbers posted online for car horns seem rather vague and Wikipedia cites numbers between 107-112 dB. This particular car is a newer Lexus RX...

How about a car honk in a garage that is sealed with the garage door closed? I was at my parents house earlier and my mother's a bit impatient at times. Just entered the garage and she immediately honked the horn to get my attention to help her carry some groceries. As I mentioned, the garage...

Are cell phones really that bad for the ears at low volumes? I try to use mine at the lowest allowable volume if I can. However, in a noisy room or in the car I may have to turn it up a bit. Used to talk on the phone for over an hour or more a day in previous years and not sure what types of...

Noticed it seems quite loud for sure. There are handy men in the house using loud power drills and so I put on some earmuffs. My cell phone rang a few minutes ago and I got sidetracked in the moment, so I forgot I still had the earmuffs on - banged the cell phone right into the earmuff cup...

Has anyone measured the sound level of fire truck sirens? I still have what I believe to be very noticeable "24/7" tinnitus from a parade last year where I was exposed to around 5-8 minutes straight of a half dozen of so sirens within around the same distance away as the OP (roughly 10 feet...

Sirens are awful. I never recovered from my exposure last year to multiple fire truck sirens blaring from directly in front of me at a parade a year ago. It wasn't just a brief "passing by," either. The parade traffic was held up and so the trucks stood there blaring the sirens and beeping the...

It seems the initial parade incident left a permanent mark after nearly a full year later. I can hear the sounds of tinnitus very clearly even with ambient noises present. It also seems like I can't hear competing noises as well anymore such as someone talking while the tv is on. I've had...

Here's a photo of the place I played: It's a pretty small 'loft style' industrial warehouse space. When the ball was hit every few seconds it nearly sounds like loud gunshots. Sound is just bouncing all over the place. They put 3-4 sound damping things over the walls and it didn't seem to...

How dangerous is it? I played a sport called Pickle Ball indoors in a small, all brick walled warehouse with no windows and the doors were closed. We were completely enclosed in the room. The floor was hard court/concrete. There was no sound damping inside at all and it was a fairly small place...

How about driving on the freeway with the radio on? I went on a small roadtrip with my mom driving and it was about 3 hours of freeway. She had the radio on and was keeping it louder than I would have liked. She also has a habit of cranking old songs that are her favorites. At times I'd turn it...

I was exposed to the sound of around 6-8 fire truck sirens on full blast a few months ago at a parade and made a thread about it. The exposure time was something like five minutes straight at around 130-140 dB. I was only standing just a few feet away and it was unbearably loud. Don't think my...

Summary: Three days ago, I let water 'shoot' directly into my ears from the shower head above me while taking a shower. I've been having some sniffles and nasal drip lately. And every now and then, I probably get dumb ideas to 'clean' my ears. One of the things I recall reading was to "tilt...

An odd thing I encountered today was an overly loud backup alarm on a minivan. I looked it up online and it's rated as '112db.' Not sure if that's the absolute peak or what, but it was extremely loud and seemed completely unnecessary for a personal vehicle. I was standing right next to the...

Even fast food restaurants can get really loud. There's a trendy one similar to In N Out that is overcrowded in the later hours of the night because there is a college in walking distance and college kids tend to be night owls. A little earlier I was in and there must've been around a hundred...

I'm a guy and grew up in an area where machismo was pretty common. So I suppose I'm too stubborn to do things like put my hands over my ears or run away in these kinds of situations. I was with my spouse and company and so I didn't want to run off without them and it would've been difficult...

Alarms and sirens are the worst. Nearly three months ago I was at a city parade with my spouse who is short and has a tough time seeing over people. So we made it all the way up front by the street and stood there throughout the parade. It was mainly cars full of people waving and high school...

Looks like the same or similar megaphone someone was using tonight. Was in line in a store a few minutes before closing and one of the employees used one of these to remind shoppers the place was closing soon. The store was pretty big and shoppers a long ways away in the store seemed to hear it...

Anxiety is definitely a bummer with these things. Just like today. We were sitting against the window of the take-out area of a restaurant and a car pulled into a parking space that was only about 4-5 feet away from the window and directly behind us. An old lady was getting out of her car and...