I flew those planes on multiple occasions. They are definitely louder than the regular planes. When the plane is delayed, the pilot might try to make up time by flying faster - this causes those planes to be louder than usual. Having said this, I used double protection (earplugs + muffs) and ended up avoiding a permanent spike.
Are you saying that I said that spikes are always permanent? May I ask you to quote the text you were referring to? In other words - where did I ever say that?
This site is full of horror stories of people getting permanent spikes as a result of flying. (Having said this, there are very few [if any!] stories of people who used hearing protection and still got spikes.)
I am pretty sure that there hasn't been any scientific studies of this. Also T sufferers go to a doctor soon after onset. There, they learn that an ENT can't help them. So when they get new spikes (some of which end up being permanent and caused by flying) they are unlikely to visit an ENT. They will write about their experiences here, though.
No I didn't say that and I'm sorry if you thought I implied it, but I guess I'm just not happy about seeing the word permanent associated with a spike bc like I said as you should know, most of the time that's not the case with spikes anyway.
Where? I ask bc I personally had an issue recently where my spike (a second spike) the night after a 6 hour flight and I did endless research on this topic and looked all over these forums in particular and didn't really come up with much short of VERY few threads about it. I then reached out to a couple of the people from said threads who ended up responding letting me know things got better.
I guess it all depends on how one defines "full of" and "very few." Over the past 18 months, I recall reading around 10 posts like that. That was enough to convince me that this site provides us with more than enough information to conclude that the threat is real (and by "real" I mean the probability of a permanent spike is non negligeable).
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