My Friends Are Worried About Me and Have Invited Me to a Pub, Should I Go?

[Michael Leigh]

Good to hear that the ear builds tolerance after a while.
I guess I will need at least another year to do anything remotely like that. (Not that I'll ever not use earplugs)
Since I already had a spike after 3 hours max 75 dB.

Providing you do not overuse ear protection, your auditory system should return to normal as before with time. However, this doesn't mean using headphones even at low volume and deliberately exposing yourself to high sound levels. I have no sign of hyperacusis even though I had a second noise trauma in 2008. It took 4 years to habituate for the second time.
Michael

 

[JurgenG]

Providing you do not overuse ear protection, your auditory system should return to normal as before with time. However, this doesn't mean using headphones even at low volume and deliberately exposing yourself to high sound levels. I have no sign of hyperacusis even though I had a second noise trauma in 2008. It took 4 years to habituate for the second time.
Michael

I am trying to protect myself, but also expose myself to normal sound (-70 dB and sometimes peaks which we can't avoid.)
Now I've made a topic where my T spiked really bad before I went to sleep after visiting a concert for +- 3 hours, had at least -25 dB protection, and the noise level was around 95, sometimes maybe a tad bit higher.

Those sounds like low numbers, but still my ears didn't like it. Guess I need more time?

Would you also think, that my experience is a new trauma, or just a spike that doesn't do any permanent damage?

(Don't want to hijack this thread but you are clearly one of the guys who have seen everything twenty times around.)

 

[Michael Leigh]

Would you also think, that my experience is a new trauma, or just a spike that doesn't do any permanent damage?

(Don't want to hijack this thread but you are clearly one of the guys who have seen everything twenty times around.)

I don't think your experience is a new trauma just a spike. I hope that you are continuing to use "sound enrichment" at night? I have read some of your posts and the ones where you comment on using ear protection concerns me a little, as I think you should be careful and try not to slip into the belief that over protecting your ears is a good thing. I assure you that it isn't and doing so will hinder or prevent you from habituating and you will probably continue to have spikes, that some call "Reactive Tinnitus. " One person that gives good advice on this subject is @Ed209. Indeed I have had tinnitus a long time but don't know everything about it and always looking to learn more from others.

You will get there just try to take things easy and not to worry too much.
All the best
Michael