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Originally Posted by Mari
I have two kinds of ear plugs:
1. silicone that seem waxy so maybe they are wax.
2. memory foam -- on a visit to Texas my father showed me some ear plugs he was using -- they were the same kind (more or less) that he wore in the military.
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mine are definitely wax, not silicone. also, while i said i would use them multiple times, the package says not to. i think that's because they gradually start to heat up and melt gradually. i do notice the outside is slippery when i take them out - the same way as a candle gets when it is warmed up.
i will have to look into the memory foam ones. i thought that wax would be more protective, but that may not be correct... since used in the military.
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The silicone ones have warnings all over the package about not putting them in the ear canal. Hello. I prefer not having something to worry about.
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lol... i sometimes have that concern about the slipperiness after wearing the wax ones a while. but they don't melt to liquid so i'm ok i think.
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I read on a forum years ago when I was first buying ear plugs that the ones made out of memory foam are only good for a few nights because they retain moisture. I guess moisture might interfere with their effectiveness.
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moisture in the ears is
bad because it can offer a comfy environment for
fungal infections. my guess is this is the reason. otherwise... water would actually block
more sound than air does.
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if I anticipate a noise problem when I am sleeping or if I am anxious about getting enough sleep -- have not tried them with the alarm to see if I could still hear alarm -- need to do that now that it is occured to me.
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i wear them under these circumstances too - and when my sleep schedule is upside down which means my parents will make noise, OR, if i have a migraine - then all noises are heightened. as for my alarm clock, i have a soft toned one, with a gradually rising volume. and i cannot hear it with plugs but if i need the plugs i am usually in conditions where i turn my phone volume (doubles as alarm clock) off altogether. unfortunately there are much louder noises which can happen - like the condo intercom, and the landline phone, or my father's cellphone (loud enough for ME to hear WITH plugs and asleep, even tho he doesn't WITHOUT plugs and AWAKE), and the plugs need to block those or at least stifle them. so plugs mean, no alarm for me. should i need to be up at a certain time, i arrange to be awoken.
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That's right about the inside noises. I had not thought of that.
And I would not have known what to call them if I had not read your post. Most of the time I find them disconcerting -- kind of remind me of my human body.
But I know some noises are good noises -- I can remind myself of that.
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whew. i'm glad somebody else notices this stuff. i try to remember that they are "good noises" too, but they are still too LOUD when trying to get to sleep at times.
at the table it is annoying because i can't follow conversation between my crunches. but if i take the plugs out my family's volume can easily rise beyond my tolerance if i have a migraine. plus, sometimes i get tinnitus with plugs!
always somethin, huh.
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I think that many of us with bp have heightened senses (maybe not all five, but some).
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i would tend to agree. interestingly many ppl with bp also have migraines, and during a migraine light and sound sensitivity can be heightened greatly (can worsen pain during headache phase) - to intolerable degrees at worst cases. however i find i am more sound sensitive than most even without a migraine. i can also hear higher frequencies than most people.
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Last night (Tuesday), our a/c went out and I went to bed with only the ceiling fan and with instructions left for hubby to inform apt management before he left for work that a /c needed tending to.
I woke up much later ... with the bedroom door open to the hallway while the repair men worked on the a/c in the hallway.
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That sucks!!! I hope you were "covered." And i hope you gave hubby a talking to about closing the door before leaving you untended with possible strangers coming into the house. actually i would want to be awakened if repairmen were coming. i would have been scared.
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Originally Posted by Mari
The big serious headphones remind me of a Halloween costume I made for hubby.
He was planning on watching tv with his huge black ear phones.
I bought him a black cheap spider cape.
When he answered the door to give out candy to kids he wore 1) a cape and 2) massive headphones.
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LOL.
That's funny.
i know the headphones you mean. we used to have those ... back in the 70's and 80's when we still had vinyl-listening capabilities. since then, many "moves" happened. i think they went with the stereo/player.
i don't know the kind of "muffs" BF has but the ones i've used at firing ranges are not big and poofy like the serious "stereo" ones. they are like beige or grey, and sit more flat all around the head. also somewhat harder all around. that is why i can't imagine sleeping with them on. maybe there are different kinds if one buys one's own.
~ waves ~