Author Topic: Tinnitus (Read 806 times)

E25280 · « **Reply #30 on:** March 10, 2007, 08:43:27 PM »

Unlike a lot of you, mine did not come from an occupation. At the ripe old age of 18 months, an infection accompanied by fever of near 106 damaged one of my auditory nerves.

Having lived with it all my life, I usually don't notice it. But, as related by others, I have a hard time distinguishing voices in a crowded room or if the TV is too loud, which sometimes makes carrying on a conversation difficult.

At night when it is quiet is when I tend to "notice" it. But it is a blessing in a way . . . if I lay down on my good ear, I can't hear my wife snore . . .

Viking · « **Reply #31 on:** March 10, 2007, 08:46:51 PM »

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Originally posted by storch
are you sure it isn't from listening to ace of the base at full volume?

Heh, no. Can't stand their music.

PuckIt · « **Reply #32 on:** March 10, 2007, 08:51:13 PM »

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Originally posted by Debonair
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cars · « **Reply #33 on:** March 11, 2007, 06:26:05 AM »

I've had a severe case for 40 years now. Explosion related. sleeping is difficult if the room is quiet. On the up side, if a cricket gets in the house, I can't hear the chirping that drives everyone else crazy.

cars

lazs2 · « **Reply #34 on:** March 11, 2007, 10:36:56 AM »

I have had it for as long as I can remember.. it is a constant ringing. I can hear it above everything else and it is mostly, like with mav, a high frequency loss of about 30%..

Women think I ignore them but their voices simply are in that wrong range for the most part.. that is why, before it became PC to hire women announcers, that mostly the voices you heard on radio were mens.

Guns, drag racing, rock concerts... machine shops... decades of motorcycles.. who knows what caused the damage.. It doesn't matter now.

It really doesn't bother me too much.. I think the times that it is the most annoying tho is in a room where more than one person is talking at the same time.. for some reason they seem to cancel each other out.

I am also pretty much tone deaf anyway..

So let's recap... I have this ringing in my ears all the time that I am pretty much used to... Along with the tone deaf thing it makes it so that I have no interest in buying expensive stereos or plugging some ipod thingie in my ear and wandering around or spending money on music...

I often can't hear what women are saying when they are being shrill and when a bunch of people are talking at me at once I can't really hear them as individuals.

All in all... one of my least annoying handicaps.

lazs

Viking · « **Reply #35 on:** March 11, 2007, 11:27:18 AM »

That's the first thing that goes Lazs; the ability to differentiate between sounds. Makes big parties a big pain in the keister as far as conversations are concerned.