How Loud Is a Room Full of People Clapping?

[Sisu]

If one person clapping is around 70 dB, ten would be 80 dB and a hundred 90 dB. There shouldn't be need for steroids. Even if it was 100 dB, there shouldn't be anything more than a spike.

I took steroids for a week ago and while it helped to calm down my t, now it's back with full force. And I feel anxious and had quite dark thoughts yesterday. Steroids are not like candy, be cautious.

 

[TuneOut]

We should also keep in mind that the average clapping is much less loud than the record breaking clap. And also that noise levels don't "addition". Not sure how to phrase it in English but you know what I mean I guess

They do add up but it's logarithmic.

I found this page ...

http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-spl.htm

 

[Julien87]

yes
95 dB + 95 dB + 95 dB = a bit more than 95 dB but still less than 100 dB

A room with people applauding at 95 or 100 db is really far from 130 dB, believe me.

 

[orbiter12]

Thank you for the kind words and advice and not so kind, but needed advice. My reaction to tinnitus and the anxiety towards its needs addressing but reading horror stories on here and having new tones, reactive T and permanent spikes from previous exposures has prevented me from relaxing around loud noises. T and H are definitely worse after the exposure.

I will carry on the course of steroids and hopefully that helps.

Hopefully CBT and TRT can help me - which is being arranged by my doctor and through the nhs currently.

There is zero chance I will ever take ssris unless my depression gets that bad I can't bring myself to even go to work.

I will carry on with my usual earplugs on the train and in pubs (which I rarely go to anyway) and remeber not to overprotect.

4 months into this journey so far.

 

[TuneOut]

@Ryan, I totally get what you are experiencing. The tinnitus, the noise, the fear of it worsening. One thing I can tell you is that stress and anxiety can definitely make things worse. My feeling is that intense stress, like noise, can actually cause damage. The combination of the two may be additive or even synergistic.

 

[frohike]

I've heard it's 130 dB... That's by far the loudest noise I've been exposed to.

Well, I would be dead already. Same as when I light a match and the sulfur ignites at 230C. Do I melt? nope.

Clapping as hard as I could, the db meter in my phone registered 86db. Far from the Guinness world record, which is 113 dBA: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/loudest-clap/

A single clap lasts a fraction of a second. Depending on the crowd, room, additional noises, and how freaked out you got, it may have an impact. Definitely avoid football stadiums.

 

[TuneOut]

Too loud.

 

[Zug]

When they're clapping at me and I'm on stage, not loud enough

 

[RallySportRyan]

Yep same thing happened to me although it was in a loud reverberated resturant in downtown Raleigh. It was so loud in there that I almost didn't go in but I was with 3 other people and didn't want to ruin their night out. By the next morning all the work I had done to drastically reduce my T with prednisone was back even worse than before :-(

I went back to my Ent about 5 days later and was put on another regimen of prednisone for 2 weeks but it wasn't as effective the second go around. I really wished I hadn't gone into that restaurant looking back and wonder how much better my T would be if I had avoided the place.