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I’m once again wishing I could peek at everyone else’s answers before this post is published!
In the meantime, I’d say my noise-cancelling earbuds are something I can’t live without.
They make it possible for me to function better in society when I feel a migraine coming on in the prodrome phase of this disease (or in postdrome as I recover) and even fairly quiet noises can be painful for me to hear.
If not for them, I’d need to either spend far more time at home on those days or be absolutely miserable if a car horn was honked, a dog barked, or the subway car squealed while turning a corner.
With them, I can do a quick grocery store run, wash a last-minute load of laundry, or make it to appointments without being in too much pain before and after a migraine hits.
Ah, Lydia I agree. I don’t know what I’d do without my noise cancelling headphones.
I’m glad you have some good noise cancelling headphones, too!
Closest thing I have is shooting muffs. I think my Pixel buds have the noise-cancelling ability, but I only use them when I’m on the phone with the ladyfriend — I hate having to HOLD a phone for that length of time.
It can be tiring after a while for sure!
Awesome choice, Lydia. With my tinnitus, I find earbuds and headphones challenging, but your post gave me a practical use I hadn’t considered. Thanks for sharing your perspective.
You’re welcome. I’m sorry you have tinnitus.
Ahh yes, I don’t think I could live without my headphones, I mean I could. But I would have a hard time considering I am exclusively an audiobook reader
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Oh, that’s cool. I love a good audiobook now and again.
I hear you … (Bad pun intended 😅) It’s a pretty noisy world, assailing our senses left and right.
Ha, good one! And for sure.
Bless you…I remember back in the days when noise would be so painful during a migraine. Thankfully they were hormone driven, so once I went into menopause, they all went away.
Glad you have found something that helps.
Aww, thank you, Judy. I’m hoping the same thing will happen to me!
I bought my first pair a couple of years ago. We were in Korea and unbenownst to us, there was a karaoke bar above us. So all night, until 3am we would hear people clapping, cheering, and singing. Needless to say, the next morning we went straight to an electronics store so I could get something to help block out the noise.
I’m so glad you were able to find some headphones for that situation.
Well, I’m glad you have them then!
Growing up, we thought of one aunt as the ONE who had the migraines, but now I think my mother and sister and I all got a weak form of the gene. We all had nasty headaches, mostly on one side, at predictable intervals when young. Mother and I were able to predict, control, and “outgrow” ours–I still get an occasional reminder, but haven’t had a real headache since age 30. (I still get scintillating scotomas, though–not in every single year.) Sister doesn’t seem to have found the way to manage hers, probably because she’s not willing to watch her diet the way we do…did…Mother died in 2020.
Fwiw, Midol was not a very good friend. Long hot baths were much better. And BODAE–Boring Old Diet And Exercise. And meditation. I don’t know to what extent learning to do trigger point massage helped. Accepting and working around the fact that, while young, I was regularly irregular even after flipping the celiac trait into super energy. Hormones just slowed down and speeded up certain processes; it was easier to work around that than try to change it.
I love the irony…”Eighties” music used to aggravate my headahes. Tinnitus brought some relief, and some hearing loss. I knew it was caused by a tiny involuntary muscle, and didn’t try to bring that muscle out of spasm for about 25 years. Then it just popped out of spasm and I found myself hearing well enough to enjoy the music I used to hate. Irony is fun!
Thank you. What interesting stories!