Posted on 01/26/2024 8:35:09 PM PST by Red Badger
Ping!...................
I’ve needed that drug ever since seeing Led Zeppelin at the L.A. Forum in ‘77.
Black Sabbath for me......................
But perhaps these findings can help somebody else.
Unless they're like me and ignore the good advice I was given as a teenager: "Turn that shiite down yer gonna go deaf!". Oh well....
Bars in Olongopo in early 80s.
My multi-thousand dollar hearing aides from the VA work wonderfully, and I can turn my wife off...................😜
I worked in very loud industrial plants for 30 years. I have high frequency hearing loss as well. Women’s and children’s voices. Mostly I hear gibberish and I have to read lips. But when I take off the hearing aids at night, I can’t hear much of anything and sleep very well.
Mine is Bachman Turner Overdrive. I saw them in 1986 opening for Van Halen. I was on the floor at a Fillmore style show and worked myself down to the front of the stage and stood right in front of the bass players rig. Bad move. Couldn’t hardly hear for two days after and my hearing hasn’t been the same sense. Takin’ care of business my ass.
Greatful Dead drug of interest?
Too bad Jerry didn’t get it.
When I went to take one of my kids and her friends to some kind of “Concert”, I wore my gun shooting ear muffs.
Worked out just fine.
ymmv.
Knew a career guy in the Air Force that refused to wear hearing protection on the flightline. He didn’t go completely deaf, but enough to substantially effect his quality of life and made it impossible to take certain assignments. Toward the end of his career, he regularly spoke to Flights of young Airmen warning them not to make the same mistake.
Say again...?
My ears started ringing about 10 years ago and haven’t stopped since. When I was a teen I used to mow the lawn and my ears would ring for an hour or so afterwards, and if I went to a rock concert they would ring the next morning for an hour or so... Now... They just ring all the time.
It drives some people nuts, but me... I just accept it and carry on. The good news... Closed captioning. It comes in pretty handy when you’re watching movies.
Even worse then losing your hearing... Eyesight. Cataracts will completely eliminate it, the good news... They have surgery for that and can insert new lenses into your eyes and then you see perfectly. I had cataracts when I was 50... Now I see perfectly.
When it comes to your hearing or tinnitus there is no surgery or cure. It is what it is, but thank goodness for closed captioning.
A Chase concert for me. I went near the stage to snap a few pictures, stood in front of one of those huge speakers and was literally pushed sideways.
Plus having partial hearing loss from birth ain’t helping either, or working in loud factories…
I hear ya! (Pun intended). Closed captioning for me too. Also, my daughter gave me Bluetooth headphones for Christmas- “Beat” headphones paired with my tv, and I’m good!
I’m 70 this year. I would dearly love to try whatever drug that might work for me- get rid of the hearing aids, wouldn’t that be great?
For me it wasn’t loud music. But I did stand in front of roaring lions many times. That was as damaging, maybe worse. (I was a zookeeper).
I have a program on my hearing aids that is supposed to eliminate or reduce tinnitus. It takes 1-2 years to get the full effect. I’ve been using the program about a year. I think I can tell a difference.
My hearing aids are Bluetooth enabled. I especially like it on my cellphone. It sends the sound directly to the hearing aids. And I can pair it to my televisions.
Guns. CanAm Races. Unmuffled lawn mower. Many rock concerts (on the concert committee three years at college). Exploding rolls of caps. Exploding bike tires. Power plants (5 years). Headphones. Monster amps and Dahlquist DQ 10 speakers. Fireworks.
I’m surprised I can hear anything at 72. I sure do hear my tinnitus all the time except sleeping. But I can generally tune it out...unless I read an article like this.
I’ve habitualized my tinnitus but reading these comments has my ears ringing again.
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