My pair of Active noise cancellation ear buds arrived today. Apparently they are not as good as the headphone variety, but the one's I chose are the best you ear phone ANC buds you can get. I was pretty amazed trying them on at home and then out side my front door, but today I will test them in a mall situation. As far as I can tell they do not eradicate high pitch sound, but it did lesson the volume of my TV when tested in my living room.
It's interesting that whilst I can't really make out the words of people when they are not speaking clearly or not directly at me and or me being partially tone deaf ... that I seek not to hear anything. On that note a friend of mine questioned me on how my tinnitus would fair using active noise cancellation. The best I can say regarding tinnitus ... is how I don't regard my tinnitus as intrusive ... at least not anymore. Intrusive being the key word to noise pollution in general and whilst the affect of that is very often responsible for tinnitus itself, having some influence over the intrusive nature and impact of unwanted noise give me a sense of control. This control factor being important when thinking in terms of how noise pollution affect anxiety.
Yes with the noise in my head drastically reduced, my tinnitus is more predominant. The main point I just tried to make above is that I can live with that ... I can actually influence that myself in other areas and the ability to hear my tinnitus is actually important to me, as trying to mask that leads to more health problems in much the same way many of us mask our emotions with food. Alas - whilst I would love to delve into the insights of living with tinnitus ... I need to get up and off this thing (which in itself is another project of late to keep moving and not be sitting for too long) and go do a hard core public test.