# Needing medication to enjoy music **URL:** \ **Category:** Everything Else\ **Created:** [December 31, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/needing-medication-to-enjoy-music/36204 "2023-12-31T17:41:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Arenith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/arenith/32/62875_2.png) [@Arenith](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Arenith)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/needing-medication-to-enjoy-music/36204/1 "2023-12-31T17:41:11Z")
What a curse and why not could be called a blessing contextually. I went to measure my hearing and even on the graphs it’s looking unnaturally acute. Subjectively it’s so much worse (well, “better”) that I seriously can not listen to most music at reasonable dB without a CNS relaxant to prevent the ears from rattling distortedly. I can hear up to 23kHz and it’s not exactly hyperacusis nor tinnitus, seems more like the suspensions on my tymphanic membranes are over-compliant and respond nearly painfully unless curated with medicine. It’s not even the gear, it’s to do with all sound. I’m forever chained to pregabalin and benzodiazepine treatment if I want to be able to enjoy music at all. Maybe tubes would fix the issue… ---
**Author:** ![joma0711](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/joma0711/32/277666_2.png) [@joma0711](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/joma0711)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/needing-medication-to-enjoy-music/36204/2 "2023-12-31T18:17:37Z")
> [@Arenith](#): > > Maybe tubes Or, in all seriousness, some proper earplugs - I have several friends for whom level reducing earplugs are essential whenever they go out or are involved with anything involving sounds (two autistic, two not) and they make a big difference. Me I always wear them for a gig, but that is, i think, mostly for hearing protection. ---
**Author:** ![Elk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/elk/32/1240_2.png) [@Elk](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Elk)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/needing-medication-to-enjoy-music/36204/3 "2023-12-31T19:00:11Z")
It sounds like a dreadful problem. I hope you get it sorted out soon. ---
**Author:** ![RonP](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/ronp/32/213555_2.png) [@RonP](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/RonP)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2023, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/needing-medication-to-enjoy-music/36204/4 "2023-12-31T19:02:31Z")
I wonder if an equalizer would be helpful? ---
**Author:** ![Elk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/elk/32/1240_2.png) [@Elk](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Elk)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/needing-medication-to-enjoy-music/36204/5 "2023-12-31T19:17:58Z")
Excellent idea. ---
**Author:** ![amsco15](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/amsco15/32/28_2.png) [@amsco15](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/amsco15)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2023, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/needing-medication-to-enjoy-music/36204/6 "2023-12-31T21:02:06Z")
[https://www.schiit.com/products/lokius](https://www.schiit.com/products/lokius) This one would be cheap to experiment with. They sell one up and one down from this. ---
**Author:** ![kerosene](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/kerosene/32/9084_2.png) [@kerosene](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/kerosene)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2023, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/needing-medication-to-enjoy-music/36204/7 "2023-12-31T22:15:18Z")
Related, I have had in-ear attenuators I use in many situations. The molds were made at an ENT clinic. They have swappable 15 dB and 25 dB filters. Extremely useful. ---
**Author:** ![Arenith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/arenith/32/62875_2.png) [@Arenith](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Arenith)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/needing-medication-to-enjoy-music/36204/8 "2024-01-01T00:05:07Z")
Relating to the problem as described is an ear-specific set of peak areas in the audible spectrum that trigger surplus characteristic resonance modes in the ear(s) Vanishing and pure 2nd order harmonic content with a good tube setup might help. Or not. …and yes, an equalizer would help if correctly tuned, but that’d be more or less haphazardly listening to “not the original track” ---
**Author:** ![Arenith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/arenith/32/62875_2.png) [@Arenith](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Arenith)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/needing-medication-to-enjoy-music/36204/9 "2024-01-01T00:30:29Z")
> [@Elk](#): > > I hope you get it sorted out soon. I forgot to mention though, living for me is all in all necessarily bearable thanks to the mentioned meds. Can’t complain, and yes, they fix the ears too! ---
**Author:** ![joma0711](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/joma0711/32/277666_2.png) [@joma0711](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/joma0711)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 1:50am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/needing-medication-to-enjoy-music/36204/10 "2024-01-01T01:50:19Z")
Pragablin is a powerful and effective medication, if it suits. It doesn’t suit everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Arenith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/arenith/32/62875_2.png) [@Arenith](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Arenith)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2024, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/needing-medication-to-enjoy-music/36204/11 "2024-01-07T17:49:48Z")
When it suits, it really can suit and very much “enable life” ---
**Author:** ![joma0711](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/joma0711/32/277666_2.png) [@joma0711](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/joma0711)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/needing-medication-to-enjoy-music/36204/12 "2024-01-07T19:49:25Z")
Indeed.