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How do people with Tinnitus and Hyperacusis travel to japan?

pinson27

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8 Dec 2006
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I don't know if some of you may have those ear problems. but i do, and can't imagine ever going far overseas in an airplane. Last time that i did( not overseas) just local USA, i had terrible pain and mutations in my hearing,.

From usa to japan that takes a great deal of hours, doesn't it? Man, i can't imagine extreme ear pain for that long. and having to risk what i've got left of my hearing.

Then aside from the pain due to the T and H. I also got a really painful ear drum rupture... it was bad. So it makes me think, many japanese love to travel and do alot. Do they never worry about their ear health? Or not many p eople with ear problems there
 
I think you'd get better and more useful information and advice on this from a physician than from a bunch of rubes on an internet forum. Especially since you seem to have a special situation with your ears.
 
Like myself, most people who don't have ear problems probably dedicate little time to worrying about them. Another vote for "ask your doctor."

And for your edification, the flight from CA lasts around 10-11 hours.
 
Flights from Europe last from eleven and a half to twelve and a half hours. Though I have suffered from tinnitus myself from time to time never has a flight to Japan bothered me.I've also flown to California when I lived there and never had a problem. The other ailment, hmmm, don't know what that is. Is it to do with ear pressure that could be affected by take off and landing? Could be your problem there. Planes are reasonably quiet, hard to sleep in, but reasonably quiet nonetheless....
 
From the UK, it is about 19 hours flight (have to stop as well - just as your ears started to get better you are back on a plane for the rest of the journey).
My opinion: Ask your doctor or ear specialists or physician. If it is from pressure I find that sucking hard boiled sweets works well.

But go to a doctor!
 
Although you should obviously be talking to your doctor, i know of special earplugs (Earplanes) that are supposed to equalise the pressure and might help a lot with your ear problems.

The official description:

EarPlanes consist of two elements: a hypoallergenic silicone ear plug and a ceramic pressure regulator. The silicone earplug has four circumferential rings which provide an airtight seal between the product and ear canal. The ceramic element is a controlled porosity filter, one end of which is exposed to the external cabin pressure, with the opposite end exposed to the sealed chamber formed when the ear plug is inserted in the ear. Thus, as the cabin air pressure changes, a pressure differential is created across the ceramic filter, thereby causing air to flow through the filter. The filter acts as an impedance to the flow of air into and out of the ear canal.

In-flight
 
The silicone earplug has four circumferential rings which provide an airtight seal between the product and ear canal.

Four circumferential rings, eh? Well it's good to hear that they all have a circumference. ;-)
 
That does seem a very verbose way to describe a tube, doesn't it?
 
haha yes it does, i didn't really read through it all before I posted it, and assumed it explained more about what it actually did, instead of explaining all of its parts in the most intricate way possible.
 
Here is another vote for "See your doctor!" I'm not a doctor (nor do I play one on TV), but it certainly seems to me that you have problems other than tinnitus. I have had tinnitus since the 1970s*, and like tampopo, it has not been a problem for me on flights. As I understand tinnitus, it is a problem with damage to the nerve endings and has nothing to do with pressure equalization.

*Headphones and alcoholic beverages are not as dangerous a combination as drinking and driving, but there can be adverse consequences.
 
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