***10 years of Fender and Mesa Boogie amps turned to 11 has left me with ringing ears.***
For me it was ..
4 years of B-52s and KC-135s.
8 years of steel fabrication shop noise.
31 years of Power Plant noise of which 21 years with blood anti-coagulants.
And I wore ear plugs!
4 years of B-52s and KC-135s
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I attribute mine to a combination of many years of copying morse code through headsets AND in 1962 my sinuses ‘blew up’ in the Submarine School Escape Tank.
The ringing gradually got worse and for years I was able to ‘white it out’ but as I get older, it gets harder (whiting out) and I swear it is so loud people standing next to me should be hearing it.
Also, when I talk, I feel like I am ‘screaming’ so to compensate I tend to talk to ‘low’ so people naturally think because I am getting ‘old(er)’ I can’t express myself properly.
That is just as frustrating as the ringing...
VA not much help here either, though I haven’t really pushed it as I believe there are people out there with ‘real problems’.