Loop Experience Ear Plugs - Silver

I bought these earplugs last year and had incredibly high hopes for them. The unfortunate thing is, while they helped to reduce the amount of external noise I could hear - it was replaced with that weird "underwater" sound you get normally when you cup over your ear with something. Similarly, eating and drinking while wearing these had been unbearable because it was almost like the sound was amplified. I am autistic and have misophonia among other sound sensitivities, so hearing myself chew and swallow while wearing these was hell! I tried to make these work for me, because I really wanted to feel like a "normal person" at the office and not be overwhelmed with sound. I also had a similar problem with these earplugs as I do with wearing ear buds for a long period of time (meaning 9+ hours for my workday). They eventually start to hurt my ears because of the plastic loop. I've gone back to wearing the more expensive earplugs that I bought when I was still doing a lot with live music as a touring musician - highs lows and mids are balanced, things aren't muffled, and I don't have to hear myself chew. EARasers Noise Cancelling Earplugs are my favorite out of all the ones I've had, they've got a specific ear piece for left and right and they don't leave my ear feeling fatigued because the whole plug is soft. The downside was that these cost 40 - but they actually work! I've had a pair since I was 14 years old and still have them at 23. My second favorite are a pair of Pluggerz that I picked up on a whim from CVS, I got the swim ones. These ones were 12 bucks. I was going to a Dave and Busters with some of my friends from college around NYE and I forgot my EARasers in my apartment. I was already starting to panic just thinking about all of the sound I had been hit with the last time I was at a D&B, so we hit up a CVS. My one friend, Sammi, had pointed out these ones on the shelf and said "I use these ones, they're cheap and have a super tiny carrying case that goes nice on my Keychain. They don't block everything and don't have a watery sound to them." All of this to say, I quit using these Loop earplugs about 2 months after buying them. I now switch back and forth between my EARasers and Pluggerz. Look wise, loops are very cute which is what had first drawn me to them. But they could honestly be a lot better.