Enjoy the tinnitus. I’m 47 and it’s constant.
I’m right there with you! I’m 66 and I loved my loud music, power tools, concerts. Tinnitus sucks and it’s permanent.
Hello fellow neverending ear screaming friends!
Funny story, first time I noticed it, I was on an acid trip and thought I could hear molecules colliding in the air… It was years later, as it got louder and more present that I realized…
I manage to mentally block it out most of the time, but every couple of days I read a comment like this which mentions that it exists and I am right back at square one.
You should never listen to music at high volume on headphones or earphones, you WILL damage your hearing over time (or sometimes in one sitting, both happened to me).
You can tell young people this until the cows come home but they’ll ignore you and assume it won’t happen to them…
and then once the damage accumulates and they’re a little older with annoying tinnitus forever or more painful ear damage (like myself) they might finally start giving this advice out to younger people who still have a chance at a healthy, ear damage free life. But by then it’s too late for themselves, and the younger people won’t listen :-(
There are awesome earplugs you can get that you should wear if you’re somewhere loud like a nightclub or a concert by the way. They start very cheap, and they’re designed to “turn down the volume” of the world without affecting how it actually sounds.
(They’re not electronic or anything, they’re just cleverly made)
You can get more expensive ones that claim to be even better at this, but I find the cheap ones to be fantastic. I carry them with me all the time now, and if I end up somewhere loud, in they go. Heck, I even use them when I vacuum - those machines are loud as hell.
Oh and similarly, wear earplugs when you’re using noisy powertools - table saw, grinder, etc.
Prolonged exposure to 80db can cause hearing loss, and that’s a lot quieter than people think.
I spent three summers at a lumber camp. The weather was always hot and humid so I decided it wouldn’t kill me to not use ear protection. Now I have tinnitus.
What made you disregard your own health like that? Seems like the is, as you say, a common thing. I am out of that loop, I do not like music so loud it hurts. Not sure why.
Music doesn’t have to be painfully loud to cause tinnitus over time. A lot of people (mostly younger) are not aware of this so they don’t use ear protection when going to concerts and shows because for some, it’s not painful in the moment and they just hear the ringing afterwards that goes away the next day. They don’t know the damage accumulates and is irreversible.
I’m glad to see more and more people wearing ear protection at concerts now, compared to 10-15 years ago.
I have never been to a concert that was not so extremely loud that it hurts. Did that change? Can you talk to others standing next to you without screaming into their ears?
Who are the people that want it so extremely loud?
Depends on the type of concerts you go to. I’ve been to jazz shows that are not quite loud in that you can still talk to the person next to you without shouting, but the levels are still definitely in the damage-causing range. Rock and metal shows have definitely been getting progressively louder through the years, and maybe that’s also the reason I see more people wearing ear plugs now.
Who are the people that want it so extremely loud?
A lot of younger people mostly. You may be in the minority who are already sensitive to loudness in the first place, but a lot of people like to listen to music at absurdly loud levels.
Are you the asshole on a motorcycle who came to the gas station last night blasting music at literally ear piecing volumes and didn’t turn it down at all?
If so, I loathe you deeply.
You will need some speakers with those amps though. The amps themselves won’t say anything.
Y’all weren’t around for boomboxes, I guess
WHAT?
