Tinnitus or Hearing Loss

[Robot]

I got my first motorcycle in 6th grade, and had them most of my life. Always worn helmets, never earplugs.

    Been around mowers,etc all my life as well, started wearing ear plugs with them about 10 years ago. 44 now, my hearing still seems to be good, How about yours? Concerns?

 

[Mr Bogus]

what?

 

[Robot]

what?

I sooooooooooo knew it was coming

At least you were first

 

[VaBusa]

what?

...stole my line

 

[LCB]

Huh? Someone say something?

but seriously - your hearing is very important. The worst part is you don't realize how much you've lost because it happens so gradually... and it's not only age that takes it away. Tinnitus is worse than just hearing loss because of the constant "noise" you hear from it - it never goes away and there's no cure.

 

[Robot]

Huh?  Someone say something?  

but seriously - your hearing is very important.  The worst part is you don't realize how much you've lost because it happens so gradually... and it's not only age that takes it away.  Tinnitus is worse than just hearing loss because of the constant "noise" you hear from it - it never goes away and there's no cure.

Yep, agree, this months Sport Rider (I think thats where I saw it) talked about it. Wondered if anyone here has this?

 

[BlueHaya]

No high pitch here...also constant ringing.

 

[CBXRider]

I've had it for years, probably (mostly) from all the concerts I went to in the 60s and 70s. I always wear earplugs or earbuds (with my V1) but now, there seems to be no escaping it. I hear the 'white noise' sound constantly and sometimes a slight tone or ringing. Protect those ears for sure. No cure yet.

 

[roadthing]

Boiler maker's disease here!

There's days that I want to shove an ice-pick into my ears. Not a lot of fun.

 

[Big Wall]

I have a VERY hard time hearing when there is a lot of background noise.

 

[djorgensen3]

I have no problems as of yet but I expect I'll be wearing plugs now with the new exhaust. We get tested every year at work and sometimes I have to spend most of my shift in a central plant around big chiller. I usually wear plugs then. So far I'm still okay with maybe a little loss in my left ear.

 

[ditchdr]

my ears are not shot,, but if there is background noise I cant hear you.. Dr says it is from all the years of sirens and so on.. But i did not notice this untill after I started flying in helicopters for a living. Even tho we had crash hats on, the noise form the trubine was kind of loud.

 

[CrashBomb]

Mine is gone, I'm only 27 and I can't hear for crap. DVD subtitles are my friend. I don't have the ringing, I just can't hear things. Certain frequencies and volume levels are worse than others. Some of it is hereditary, but most of it is down to too many years of loud cars, loud bikes, loud guns, and loud rock and roll. My dad got those little inside the ear hearing aides a few years back and he absolutely loves them. I'm sure I'll be in the same situation when I'm his age.

I was recently diving in Hawaii and my dive buddy was trying to get my attention ("hey stupid, there's a six foot long reef whitetip shark three feet to your left that you haven't spotted yet because you're busy trying to photograph the three inch cleaner shrimp right in front of you") and she eventually had to hit me in the back of the head to get me to notice. Turns out she had been frantically banging her tank with the metal pommel of a dive knife for about thirty seconds and I just...could...not...hear it. People twenty five feet away in another group could hear it, I couldn't and I was two feet from her.

 

[HillbillyTom]

I get a hearing test at work every year, so far a small amount of high tone loss. But I'm 50 and worked in steel shops all my life so probably to be expected. No Tinnitus, until now. Read about it, now my ears are ringing.

 

[Shibumi]

Bought earplugs after my first ride on the bike. Can't stand riding without them, noise is an irritant and I'm just much more relaxed on the bike with the volume turned down.

Let's face it, bikes are loud- turning the volume DOWN doesn't turn anything OFF that is a sound a bike makes. I can hear everything, just not too much of everything...

 

[PocketRocket]

I had hearing like Superman , Now after m-60's and heavy equipment .My ears ring constantly... ..

 

[JusPlaynBob]

I just had a hearing test, in order to diagnose the problem.

My Tinnitus, nearly paralizes me at times.
Stress accentuates it. Caffiene. But mostly, parrallel frequencies.

It's said that, the human body operates at 12volts more or less.
Like every other living being and most electronic machinery.

The noise isn't really a noise.
If it were you could take a microphone, stick it in your ear and record the noise. But you can't.
What it is, is the frequency generated by the bodies power supply. These alpha waves resonate a frequency of up to 40hz or so.
It just so happens the Earth resonates a similar frequency. Well, actually from 0-75 hz but were in tune with the 40hz frequency.

Example, find a telephone pole with a transformer on it. Press your ear up to the pole.
Hear that?
THats the frequency those of us with Tinnitus are hearing/feeling.
There is a project going on using sound cancelling technology.
The problem is that the human body doesn't have a constant frequency, its difficult to match it consistantly.

http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/Schumann.html

What??

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[99'busa]

what?

i didnt see it coming...i think i just snorted

 

[99'busa]

now that you guys have me listening....i think i do hear a slight buzz or ring constantly. its quiet though and I have to be listening to it to hear it.

 Kinda like if there is NO noise around you AT ALL you will hear a buzz like the buzz after a loud explosion but quieter. Is this what you all are talking about?

 

[CBXRider]

now that you guys have me listening....i think i do hear a slight buzz or ring constantly. its quiet though and I have to be listening to it to hear it.

 Kinda like if there is NO noise around you AT ALL you will hear a buzz like the buzz after a loud explosion but quieter. Is this what you all are talking about?

Pretty much but the 'sounds' can be different from individual to individual. For me its usually like a bad AM station on a car radio out in the middle of nowhere, you know, kind of the sound that's between the good stations? Sometimes its a tone and even the tone changes occasionally. Sauks big time in any event.