Help How can I give myself hearing loss?

[Anonymoususer1234]

It's a strange question to ask. I know. But I'm looking for a way to damage my hearing without giving myself tinnitus. I want my hearing dulled down or gone entirely. I don't even care anymore. I can't handle the noise. Yes I've tried wearing headphones/ earplugs/ implementing any and every noise cancelling measure you can think of. No, it hasn't worked. I'm looking for practical, workable advice here. Not pity points or questions on my sanity. Thanks.

 

[lebrodude]

As someone with tinnitus, you don't want to fuck with your hearing.

What even is this.

However i'll play along. You can abuse your ears with all the noise you can and it will ruin your hearing. Sadly for you there's no guarantee you wont end up with tinnitus either.

If you can find a doctor and surgeon who would be willing to sever you auditory nerves, you'll never hear a thing again.

Apart from the tinnitus that you might gain as a result of the procedure.

 

[Tesha]

If you want to take years to damage it, anything around 85dB for eight hours a day will do it. But this is likely to give you tinnitus and just make you hard of hearing at certain frequencies. For each 3dB increase you can roughly half the exposure time (so 88dB is 4 hours a day).

If you want to screw it a bit more, an exceptionally loud firework or similar explosion about 5 feet away may just be enough to permanently damage it, but again it may not be completely gone and may result in tinnitus. You may also suffer burns from the firework, as it will need to be a big one.

A one off sudden blast of anything over about 150dB will pretty much get the ear on the side that's exposed. This will be physically excruciatingly painful. But you'll probably be standing on something like an aircraft carrier deck next to a jet during take off, or adjacent to an exploding bomb; so it might not bother you…

I know you said you didn't want questions on your sanity… but what's so bad about the noise levels you're experiencing?

Instant total destruction of your hearing is actually quite hard to achieve by using sound sources - as I'm writing this I'm thinking some sort of nasty infection might have more luck…

 

[Anonymoususer1234]

As someone with tinnitus, you don't want to fuck with your hearing.

What even is this.

However i'll play along. You can abuse your ears with all the noise you can and it will ruin your hearing. Sadly for you there's no guarantee you wont end up with tinnitus either.

If you can find a doctor and surgeon who would be willing to sever you auditory nerves, you'll never hear a thing again.

Apart from the tinnitus that you might gain as a result of the procedure.

Loud noise is the reason I want to go deaf. I can't imagine exposing myself to it on purpose. And I'd never be able to find a doctor who'd agree to do that for me.

And everyone keeps saying that I shouldn't mess with my hearing but I don't think they understand my situation. There's so many things I can't do because of my hearing.

I can't go to concerts or parties or social gatherings or crowded places. I can't sit and eat with anyone because their chewing noises bother me too much. I can hardly get through the day sometimes. I can't even sit alone at home without being assaulted by the constant noise of my neighbors.

Noise the number one reason I cut myself.

There's nowhere I can go to get a break. That won't change no matter where in the world I am. The world will always have noise in it.

I don't want tinnitus obviously but I feel like fucking with my hearing is the only thing I haven't tried. I know it sounds stupid. I know I sound stupid and irrational. I'm not. I'm not stupid.

All I want is to stop hearing. I know that nobody understands but I won't argue with people about this. I'm sorry.

If you want to take years to damage it, anything around 85dB for eight hours a day will do it. But this is likely to give you tinnitus and just make you hard of hearing at certain frequencies. For each 3dB increase you can roughly half the exposure time (so 88dB is 4 hours a day).

If you want to screw it a bit more, an exceptionally loud firework or similar explosion about 5 feet away may just be enough to permanently damage it, but again it may not be completely gone and may result in tinnitus. You may also suffer burns from the firework, as it will need to be a big one.

A one off sudden blast of anything over about 150dB will pretty much get the ear on the side that's exposed. This will be physically excruciatingly painful. But you'll probably be standing on something like an aircraft carrier deck next to a jet during take off, or adjacent to an exploding bomb; so it might not bother you…

I know you said you didn't want questions on your sanity… but what's so bad about the noise levels you're experiencing?

Instant total destruction of your hearing is actually quite hard to achieve by using sound sources - as I'm writing this I'm thinking some sort of nasty infection might have more luck…

I am debilitated by all kinds of noise every day. Noise levels that are normal to other people are painful to me. I replied to another user in this thread going into a bit more detail about this. I can't really explain it but noise bothers me severely. I can never get even a moment of peace. Everything is too loud always. It's just my reality. I don't know what else to say.

 

[lebrodude]

Does noise cause actual physical pain and/or discomfort for you ?

If so sounds like you may have hyperacusis.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Have you been to the doctors and told them about your extreme noise sensitivity? I think a proper medical procedure is going to be much more sensible than something homemade- I imagine it very likely you will just end up making things worse for yourself and have to go to the doctors then anyway. I don't know what they could do- I don't know about stuff like this but you can't be the only person that suffers. There must be specialists out there. I don't know if there are medical cures though. All that came up were noise cancelling headphones and coping strategies when I Googled it. That's horrible if there isn't a cure- I'm sorry.

 

[Anonymoususer1234]

Does noise cause actual physical pain and/or discomfort for you ?

If so sounds like you may have hyperacusis.

It's sometimes a physical discomfort depending on the noise. (It feels like I'm being pierced in the skull, sort of.) It's always an emotional discomfort. Noise makes me feel rage.

It's been this way ever since I was born. I know I definitely have something going on. My parents suspect that it's autism but it could be a number of conditions. I don't know.

Have you been to the doctors and told them about your extreme noise sensitivity? I think a proper medical procedure is going to be much more sensible than something homemade- I imagine it very likely you will just end up making things worse for yourself and have to go to the doctors then anyway. I don't know what they could do- I don't know about stuff like this but you can't be the only person that suffers. There must be specialists out there. I don't know if there are medical cures though. All that came up were noise cancelling headphones and coping strategies when I Googled it. That's horrible if there isn't a cure- I'm sorry.

I haven't bothered. There's very little they can do in regards that. It's just not a common enough problem for them to care. They say certain psychological therapies (CBT and exposure therapy, mainly) can help. But that's only really the case if you're afraid of noise or if your aversion is trauma related. And that's not my situation. That's why I asked here. Because professional treatment is non existent. Thanks for the compassionate response, though.

 

[losing altitude]

Loud noise is the reason I want to go deaf. I can't imagine exposing myself to it on purpose. And I'd never be able to find a doctor who'd agree to do that for me.

And everyone keeps saying that I shouldn't mess with my hearing but I don't think they understand my situation. There's so many things I can't do because of my hearing.

I can't go to concerts or parties or social gatherings or crowded places. I can't sit and eat with anyone because their chewing noises bother me too much. I can hardly get through the day sometimes. I can't even sit alone at home without being assaulted by the constant noise of my neighbors.

Noise the number one reason I cut myself.

There's nowhere I can go to get a break. That won't change no matter where in the world I am. The world will always have noise in it.

I don't want tinnitus obviously but I feel like fucking with my hearing is the only thing I haven't tried. I know it sounds stupid. I know I sound stupid and irrational. I'm not. I'm not stupid.

All I want is to stop hearing. I know that nobody understands but I won't argue with people about this. I'm sorry.

I am debilitated by all kinds of noise every day. Noise levels that are normal to other people are painful to me. I replied to another user in this thread going into a bit more detail about this. I can't really explain it but noise bothers me severely. I can never get even a moment of peace. Everything is too loud always. It's just my reality. I don't know what else to say.

They make some really effective earplugs now days. The ones I use for work are like yellow styrofoam and are all one width. Don't get the ones that taper(they come loose). When I have them in at work there is no way I can hear someone chewing etc. They still allow you to hear but markedly subdued. Add noise canceling earphones on top of that when at home and you should be fine. This way you will still have access to sound when it's ideal for safety etc.

 

[Anonymus]

I bought these earmuffs a few years ago:

https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/845196O/3m-peltor-x-series-passive-hearing-protection-earmuff-technical-data-sheet.pdf?&fn=X%20Series%20Datasheet%20low%20res%2070-0716-2607-4.pdf

I don't wear them because they are too tight on my head, but they usually reduce the noise a lot (especially from the neighboring works).

In any case, I would go to the doctor to treat hyperacusis, although they will probably give you antidepressants, but not to treat mental symptoms, but because one of its side effects is hypoacusis.

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Jo vaig comprar aquests cascs fa uns anys:

https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/845196O/3m-peltor-x-series-passive-hearing-protection-earmuff-technical-data-sheet.pdf?&fn=X%20Series%20Datasheet%20low%20res%2070-0716-2607-4.pdf

No els porto perqué m'apreten massa al cap, pero solen disminuir molt el soroll (sobretot el de les obres veïnals).

En tot cas aniría al metge a tractar la hiperacusia, tot i que probalement et donaran antidepressius pero no per tractar sintomatología mental sinó perqué un dels seus efectes secundaris es la hipoacusia.