Re: hi to all from San Diego

[Guest guest]

Hi Janel, I love San Diego, it's a lot like Santa Cruz without the weirdness, which is where we live.

Welcome!

On your MRI, they WILL cause things to get worse if you don't insist upon proper hearing protection. Still, it will be louder than you might like, especially with being so tender. I have been messed up with one before without the proper preparation so if you don't mind, let me give you a few tips.

First, get a Doctor's written note which will go far and have him/her insist that you wear proper hearing protection. Not all techs emphasize that who do mri's and many don't know that mri's can cause problems for some folks.

Second, get some Thunder 29 ear muffs that you take in yourself. They are down in San Diego, ta-da. I think I gave a post yesterday about them after my mri but if you need the address or phone, let me know?

Earplugs: they may or may not have them at the MRI place but get your own. I bought mine at the drugstore and picked the highest decibel level I could get, which I believe was something like 32 or 29.

An MRI machine will give off decibel levels more than 100 db, from what I understand. By using the plugs only, you will probably have troubles. By using plugs and earmuffs if the body part being imaged will allow it, it will probably not give you day-long problems. Last May, I had two mri's with only the plugs. My Hyperacus came back with a vengeance which is how I met our Marsha ; she started out being a stranger online who encouraged me to hang in there, let the tissues calm down and they did but I was never the same again for sure.

Hope that helps?

Jane

Reply-To: Soundsensitivity

Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 06:44:39 -0000

To: Soundsensitivity

Subject: hi to all from San Diego

Hi everyone,

Janel here, 23, from Southern CA. Saw some messages encouraging the

newbies to post an introduction, so here goes. Hyperacusis is

relatively a new thing for me, started noticing it about 9 mos. to a

year ago. I noticed it at first while listening to music in the

car; my left ear all of a sudden couldn't tolerate the level of

sound that mt right ear could. I didn't freak out at first since I

didn't notice that I really had any hearing loss in that ear. I

just lived with it, didn't worry too much about it. Flash forward

to about a month ago, around Christmas, I got a headache that is

still with me, some 24, 25 days later. Went to a neurologist when I

realized the headache wasn't self-resolving and happened to mention

the " weird thing in my left ear " . And finally, the Doc puts a name

to it: hyperacusis. Around the time the headache started, I have

also developed pulsatile tinnitus in that same ear (like the sound

of my heart beating for a few seconds, at intermittent periods,

comes and goes). Not sure if this is all interrelated, the Doc says

I need an MRI which I will get later this week. Just thought I

would drop a post to introduce myself, and to say it's really nice

that there are others out there who are suffering with something at

least similar. I hope this message finds all of you well.

Janel from San Diego

[Guest guest]

Mine are rated at 33.

My hearing is such that I hear "through" my skull, if that makes any

sense. So the ear plugs only take the edge off sounds for me. Four

times out of five, wearing ear plugs causes music to become clearer and

easier to listen to because it now sounds less distorted. For the most

part, ear plugs don't work with me. If music is being played too loud,

I pretty much just have to leave...nothing I know of will dampen it out

for me. If it's just being played moderately loud (that is, too loud

for me), I can use the ear plugs to take the edge off. Still,

even with the ear plugs in, the sounds come through my skin and skull.

In time it'll wear me down either way and I'll have to leave the area.

Jane Parks-McKay wrote:

Re: hi to all from San Diego

Earplugs: they may or may not have them at the MRI place but get your

own. I bought mine at the drugstore and picked the highest decibel

level I could get, which I believe was something like 32 or 29.

[Guest guest]

Don't know... I tend to lose the box and labels right away. There are

a few brands at the local pharmacy stores that offer 33db rated ear

plugs. I'm sure if you just nose through all the ear plugs sold at a

place like WalGreens looking at the ratings, you'll find a few to

choose from.

Jane Parks-McKay wrote:

Re: hi to all from San Diego

Good rating, 33! what brand are they?