I know there are others here who've had trouble with earplugs becoming painful, but can't remember who, so I thought I'd share this.

I just got a sampler pack from earplugsuperstore.com, one pair each of 26 different kinds of earplugs, representing their softest and/or smallest selection.

It's going to take me a while to try them all out! Well, not all of them, since there are a couple in there that I've already tried, but even with shipping nearly half the cost of the sampler pack, it was still cheaper than buying the ones I'm interested in separately, especially when that would leave a chance that they wouldn't work for me and I'd be stuck with a box I can't use.

They have at least one other sampler pack, and a very large overall selection, and shipping was via USPS and reasonably quick.