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petresun
Look. I haven't wanted to listen to anything above 50 dB since I got out of the military. Save that loud bombastic shit for the club.
spooktree
DragonWithUnfinishedProjects
Plot twist, I was born with hearing loss lol. Its quite nice because the world is quieter and I don't hear grocery store music (its a life saver during christmas lol). But in turn it turns out most people are mumblers and i can never understand them.
FranticRed
I mean, mine spikes periodically and gets physically painful. Psychic damage forever is real.
FranticRed
But you know what's worse than tinnitus pain? Knowing it's supposed to be pronounced "ti-nuh-tuhs".
Imakethingsweird
If you use plugs anyway, why not put them into your ear?
Keru
I'm 46 and I have the hearing of an 80-something. Fucking trust me when I say the picture isn't fucking lying. Don't use headphones nonstop.
mirrorz
I knew I had permanent hearing loss when I went to use an angle grinder, forgot my ear plugs and it didn't hurt my ears anymore to use it.
IHaveGreatKittenRecipes
Wait angle grinders hurt people's ears? No sarcasm, I'm HoH but I thought they were just a normal loud to everyone.
mirrorz
They are insanely loud. Extremely high pitched while just running and as soon as they make contact with metal it gets even louder.
IHaveGreatKittenRecipes
Huh. That explains why my mother hates me using it, she always says it's too loud and I mean ok but not to me. To me it's the same 'loud' as my circular saw, and that one only bothers her because spinning blade of doom.
Jagernot
I am 38 and the most embarrassing moments of my day to day life are seeing the frustration in people's faces when I have to tell them to repeat what they said because I couldn't hear it. I'm sooooooo glad 17 year old me paid extra for the ear-blasting speakers in my 1992 Chevy Cavalier.
joeyecho101
What?
crabsprophet
Hevach
HE SAID YOU ARE NOT A LOON TO HERRING TOSS! NO I DON'T UNDERSTAND EITHER
RevRagnarok
MWOP
Chievestevenbouigon
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Jaggededges113
Some rich CEO killed himself cause of tinnitus getting so much worse. Forget who.
tidepool
Was that the guy whose tinnitus got worse from Covid and he couldn’t take it anymore?
Hellscourge
I thought he had gotten tinitus from Covid.
Grandolddrummer
Texas Roadhouse?
MorgiBelfer
thats the one
fleetwoodyak
William Shatner almost offed himself due to severe tinnitus too. He's done advocacy around it and tries to spread the word.
IWasToldThereWouldBePie
Say it louder for the people in the back. No, actually...
TacTheScribbler
I've had tinnitus since before I knew what it was. I thought it was normal for the room to ring when there's no other noise.
philmoregraves
You can pull my loud music out of my cold dead fingers when I'm well and done suffer. Almost 40 so the amount of time may or may not be iffy
RaynWisp
I got all my hearing damage from a double ear-infection as a kid. I'm a bit miffed that I didn't even get to experience it the "fun" way through loud music.
wowzilla1
What?t
imgurmage
Seriously, I have some hearing loss from going to metal concerts without ear plugs for years and I regret it. Listen to music at a reasonable level and wear earplugs to live shows if they crank the speakers.
magus200342
Yup, was to cool to wear em. Hubris thy name is me.
RhymingEverything
Can I also complain that music shouldn't be loud enough to cause hearing damage at shows? How did we get to this point?
imgurmage
Metal and rock shows are just like that. Wear ear plugs.
loma45
I don't know for a fact but I have some guesses. 1 is that in order to have the bass loud enough that you really feel it - the volume of everything has to be too loud for safety. The other is venue size: if it's safe at the front without hearing protection, you probably can't hear anything at the back if it's a big venue.
Togame21
But like, they could have more than one set of speakers per venue? Or would that cause other problems?
JeanLucguizamos
Ohh this is interesting, for large venues the speed of sound in air is a relevant factor, and if you have speakers all over the place to spread the sound out, you get out of time sound from speakers further away. Large orchestras play slightly out of time from visual cues rather than audio ones to account for this
FrankTheThunderbird
I went to a concert a couple of years ago, I was way in the back of the audience I still couldn’t hear out of one ear for two days.
dripstone
Sorry, What?
TheSmogMonster
I have never been without tinnitus. I didnt knownit was normal to not hear ringing until i was 15.
MajorMal
Yeah, 65 and tinnitus. Can't hear conversations at a normal volume. Loud rock and roll and firearms in my youth. Protect your ears people.
jj999124
Just got custom fitted earplugs today. Having used tri flange, push in, foam squishies, over ears and more the custom fitted ones are on a whole other level
an0therthr0waway
I had tinnitus by 28. I am now 50 and yes, I can confirm - it CAN and DOES get worse.
theycallmemichael
cbjfan
Mawp.gif
Groetgaffel
As a fellow Tinnitus-haver, yeah, this.
fastjeff
Do not get tinnitus, just telling you now. It's the fucking shits.
TheFuckfaceWhisperer
Yah. I can:t use noise canceling headphones because it just amplifies the tinnitus sound.
Snarkophilus
This. A THOUSAND TIMES this. Psychic torture. Forever until you die. 24/7. And when I say "24/7" I mean that literally, as in "it continues while you are asleep and will therefore invade your dreams". Really, really, really protect your hearing to minimize the chance of tinnitus. It's hell.
xizar
My tinnitus doesn't carry over into my dreams, or I'm so used to it I can ignore it there.
Cabreza
I’ve had tinnitus since I was a kid and to this day I don’t know how I got it.
tidepool
Same but I also have hypersensitive hearing. I can hear too many things all at once and it’s overstimulating to the tism. But that little high pitched constant tone is always there. I don’t know if it’s just me hearing electricity or in my ears though. But I get this goddamn clicking from time to time, too, and that makes me crazy.
TurtleBabe
Look up Alan Gordon and neuroplastic pain.
fleetwoodyak
Same! Imo, it's much easier to deal with if you've always had it.
My pet theory is that my auditory nerve may have been damaged from jaundice as a newborn. But it'd be unusual for it not to damage other things as well if it was that bad.
A lot of diseases can cause hearing loss (therefore also tinnitus) in children. Measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, etc. If you got like hospital-level sick at some point in childhood, that could be your answer.
Cabreza
I did that a couple times as a kid so my hearing had no chance! 😆
finstad4
I started using earplugs at concerts and it's fucking magical
NotACanadian
Remember when everyone was quiet at concerts so people could hear the natural acoustics of the instruments?
Neither do I, I'm not 100 years old
anarchoFeline
my musician friend gave me a pair of earaser ear plugs and they are fucking amazing
Richter12x2
Even better, for country concerts I don't even go.
BurlRavenscroft
I cannot do it. I’d like to try but hard no. Sing along? I hear me. Swallow anything? That’s a big ol’ gulping noise. They ain’t great if I want to ignore myself. Brand recs?
MaverickTitan
I was born able to hear slightly higher frequencies than most folks, which is not as fun as it sounds. Took a Musical Audio Engineering course in college for the lulz and learned a ‘lot’ about the delicacy of the human ear and how little in can recover from injuries, if it can recover at all.
These days I don’t even leave the house without a pair of Earplugs. High frequencies physically hurt me, but I plan to enjoy concerts until I’m old, gray, and startin’ to decay.
jekath
I went to see Slash's Snakepit many years ago. After he struck the first chord I walked to the bar and got four sets. We were four guys. Didn't even ask my friends - just handed out the earplugs.
finstad4
"Take this, it will bring you hearing longevity"
NicolasKevinMac
I just stopped going to concerts. I'm SO over paying hundreds of dollars and dealing with crowds and security and assholes and bullshit, for a hearing-related experience that cannot be enjoyed unless you muffle your hearing. Call me old, IDGAF, but fuck that noise -- literally. If you still enjoy it, then power to you; but for myself, I would rather stay home, put on a live concert CD, and save my money.
DoktorHummus
Yup, best thing ever. I had my near tinnitus experience and was lucky. I will not try my luck again.
hwatL4bloopy
I use gun range ear plugs. The kind that tampered down loud sounds but still let softer noises in. So gunshots very reduced or muffled and can still hear people speaking.
OptimusNims
100% agree!!
bluebuildings
I'm going to have to do this the next time I want to go to a movie. They're just agonizingly loud for me now.
HerrBisch
It baffles me how loud sound systems for gigs and events are set up to be. I don't understand how anybody can possibly enjoy the music at that volume.
astrangehop
I don't really know either. It seems optimized to be a little too loud at the back of the room. The front is deafening.
fancygiraph
So true. Bought a set for my kids before their first concert. Their hearing is way better than mine. I wish I had worn earplugs earlier
ShimmerinStrider
I did the same when I would photograph bands playing on stage and I would be right in front of the speakers. Can't imagine going back.
JerBearington
Biggest lifehack not many people talk about
Override9636
Concerts sound BETTER with earplugs. It filters out the overwhelming bass so you can actually hear the music properly while also feeling your spleen rumble from the loudness. Paying a little extra for fitted plugs too is amazing.
supremeblorgon
I have the opposite experience. I go to a lot of metal shows and the bass is always the only thing I can "hear" with earplugs in. I put "hear" in quotes because the sub is turned up so high your entire body is vibrating. It really blows. As a musician, I hate how loud live music is these days.
shyriath
... honestly, I can't imagine why I didn't think of this. Not that I go to concerts often, but part of the reason for that is that too many of them are just unenjoyably loud, which this might well help with
Hoomiku
THIS RIGHT HERE. Mystery Skulls was playing at FWA and I brought some with me. Someone in line asked for some, and during the concert, I decided to check out how loud the music was with a decibel meter on my phone. I was off to the side of the stage about 50 feet or so back in this enclosed room and it was 110 decibels.
Painahimah
The Loop Experience were life-changing
HelpfulCorn
Me too and group fitness classes
flowen8
Samething with movie theaters.
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
Yup. Thank God we had them for Godzilla Minus One. So freaking loud
Treestroyer
Eargasms are the absolute best concert earplugs.
Outraider
I smirked at people using earplugs at my first concert. Night after trying to get to sleep "ok, I get it now".
Dawnbooth
I am the concert mom who always brings disposable earplugs to spare for anyone who doesn't have any. I sold hearing aids for a long time and I also have intermittent tinnitus and I know hearing loss is no joke.
mormacil
Venues here legally must provide you with free earplugs when asked. I tend to bring my own higher quality once but sometimes you forget, total life saver.
Ariadne1993
Wheres here?
mormacil
Netherlands
OverwhelmingSurplusOfDiggity
what?
Dawnbooth
I SAID I AM THE CONCERT MOM
SarahTheEverlame
Yeah but, Psychic damage? Really?
etcnotect
The only reference I can find to psychic damage is as follows, "Psychic damage is a concept used in the field of social psychology to describe the negative effects of stereotypes on individual members of stigmatized groups."
I'm pretty sure they mean psychological injury.
AlwaysUpvotesCatgirls
Tinnitus drives some people to suicide. It’s actually quite good at hitting psychic damage.
SquidBaitBadgerDroid
You won’t be able to levitate the way you used to
SarahTheEverlame
Heck. How else am I going to be the destroyer of worlds as the prophecy foretold?
swedeonamoose
Only immune to it in the military since service can never be the cause of hearing related damages /s
nclu
Great uncle was on a mortar team during WWII for several years. He would never tell you that he lost his hearing due to his service. Mostly because he wouldn't be able to hear you ask, but yeah
formerwizkid
My dad got a partial disability for hearing loss from service, but that doesn’t appear to be the norm.
XRay0976
They gave me the max of 10% for my tinnitus, so suck on that!!!/s
pyrodice
Fuckin' felt. I still have my stupid ass little green rubber earplug inserts. And my left ear screams at 18.5 kHz
SlightlyRelatedToThePost
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Bobothehobomcjojo
My favorite part is that I apparently had better hearing when I left than when I started. Who would have thought that spending 4 years working on turbines was actually good for my ears!
InfocalypseRising
But did you try Motrin?
SlightlyRelatedToThePost
Walk it off. Drink some water.
meauho
I literally just learned last month that 800mg Motrin prescription is meant to be taken 1 at a time. I got out of the military in 2004 but the VA loves the stuff almost as much as the Army so I've been on it for 20 years.
lamagra22
Don't forget the knees and back.
ThailandExpress
xizar
Nah. I worked flight decks when I was in. Once I found out disability claims were a thing, they copped to it.
hipifreq
I can understand you're thinking that hearing loss might be an issue in the service when they're testing hearing every 6 months or so. I'm sure the VA really knows better though
RevRagnarok
hipifreq
Wow, did it really seem like I wasn't being sarcastic? Shit, I gotta work on including my /s more often...
RevRagnarok
Ah yes, it's Schrodinger's asshole...
hipifreq
For the record, I'm a vet, was tested constantly, and know a few folks that have been denied for hearing loss. I really was being sarcastic, but maybe it didn't translate well
vegivamp
Dude, that was so fucking obviously sarcasm, Poe's law be damned.