I COMPLETELY relate! I didn't play DDR or Project Diva for the better part of a year after my acoustic trauma. I can play again now, but at half the volume as before. I play in my basement, not sure if I could do arcades anymore... they can get pretty loud.
I'm glad you can manage to play. My friend I'm living with is getting a white cab for DDR and I'm really hoping I can play it again quietly one day.
Mom and pop ones not so much but the big commercial ones I'd reckon are at least 80 dB. Games I play blast music in your face too. One of my friends would wear earplugs there actually. Should have done the same. Now with hyperacusis I'm sure it'd cut through any protection like butter sadly.
Ditto, my hyperacusis is reasonably down and once there's a cure for that and my hearing I'll never step foot in an overly loud environment like a club especially without hearing protection ever again. I tossed all of my headphones, I still listen to music but nothing over 60 dB, though I prefer to keep it around 50 dB. Also most importantly I'll never ever ever take any kind of medication or treatment from a "doctor" without quadruple background checking both them and whatever they're trying to give/do to me, if there's potential ear damage involved I'll opt for death first.
I hope you can return to rhythm gaming too some day! Being in control of the volume makes playing feel much safer. Be warned it gets harder at a low volume when you can't feel the bass as much, so there is an adjustment period lol
I don't even think Joyce knows anything about regenerative medicine in the pipeline. She keeps saying the TRT-tards don't care about science (granted), but she isn't that enthusiastic about science either.
That's why I wouldn't recommend any hyperacusis noobie talk to her, she just makes you feel even more lost and hopeless.
On the one hand, I do sympathise because I can imagine that suffering with hyperacusis for 10+ years could make you really miserable and bitter... but I do feel like she sometimes comes across as having the monopoly of knowledge on what hyperacusis is and how it progresses. Everyone's case is so different and she seems to give a lot of one-size-fits-all advice. I mean, I'm also glad that she's not sugarcoating things but I feel you on the snarkiness. She can be quite didactic.
I don't think she's mad, I just think her and her husband have a particularly bad case of hyperacusis (as do others, including some on this board).
This is the heart of the problem. In one regard, true hyperacusis is exceedingly rare. Therefore, we want people to know that we suffer from a very serious disability. In another regard, we want real public momentum, which requires numbers.
He explains that we are just machines in a fully determined block universe. Sure, you can sprinkle some quantum randomness in the mix, but that quantum randomness has no connection to our minds. As Patricia Churchland, Susan Blackmore and Dan Denette put it; consciousness doesn't really exist. We are philosophical zombies. Which is unfortunate to philosophers who sympathize with new age ideas. Cough cough!!! Phillip Goff, Cough Cough!!! David Chalmers.
It may not be. The US military could just be horrible at reporting it. It gets swept under the rug.
Bohem is crook at large. The same thing happened to me when I reported Zenith Labs/Sparkhealthmedia on Instagram last year. But I never use Instagram, so I really didn't care that my account got penaltied.
Diet 'cures' exist for every chronic condition because desperate people will do anything, which you know better than anyone from your tinnitus supplement scam exposés. Someone in the Boehm thread posted a screenshot of the email subject lines and they were very predatory.
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