Hearing loss

Thanks for sharing the information. I lost hearing of my left ear at the age 40 and had a hearing assessment in Toronto. The ENT prescribed to use hearing aids further. Since then I'm getting the support of hearing aids. I use it all the time, as the absence of it can cause serious body imbalances. I never felt tired of using hearing aid even when I go for hunting.
 
Marvin 21,
which aid do you use. I read the hunters use hearing aids to help them outdoors and they're not too costly. I am having some loss (higher frequency) in one ear.
Doc
 
recommend the best ear muffs and ear plugs please..
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I prefer the older yellow "barrel" design foam plug for in the ear.....BUT NONE will be worth a you-know-what unless they are inserted properly, which usually means completely inserted.

As for muffs, I have both standard and electronic. Peltor, Walker's Game Ear and a few others are all excellent
 
Interesting. At 30 I do quite well on hearing tests, but have a lot of trouble hearing in restaurants and such. Enough that it has long contributed to an aversion of bars. I wonder if my hearing was damaged in that way when I was younger.

I was running a machine last week with a high pitched squeal when i started it up. I went and got the production manager and told him something was wrong. He said he couldn't hear it, so we got someone else. He couldn't hear it either. Then someone younger piped in they could hear it and we realized they both had hearing loss. I'm the only one at my current job who ever wears hearing protection.
 
It seems hearing loss is like hair loss. Both the hearing and the hair never come back. It seems there is not enough effort directed at solving these challenges.
 
You don't realize usually because its a slow change. A bit like vision deteriorating.

I was born "tone Deaf" but the actual hearing damage & loss is traceable to a single specific instance in my case. Most don't get that "hello"! moment.
 
With a chatty beautiful 10 year old daughter who just loves to have conversations with her daddy, I've never missed my hearing more. I've always been rather careful, but one goofball who decided it would be a great idea to fire his revolver into the air to scare a buddy downrange did me in. It's so frustrating to hear the buzz, but not the girl next to me who's whole world revolves around spending quality time telling daddy about her plans and dreams.
 
Ah! The good old days of music, back before the 85dB light & the 99dB cutoff filter.;)

Mine was a little more drastic. The second (& much bigger) PIRA bomb across the street. It was designed to kill emergency personal responding to the first little one.

The cop in the bar afterwards kept asking me why I was shouting at him over the loud buzz in both ears.:(
 
This is some interesting information. Is there a link to the Scientific American article? Would like to read more.
 
Hearing damage is cumulative
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Absolutely true.

When I was just a young whippersnapper, I did my patriotic duty and went to fight in Vietnam. Got a new black rifle and lots of free ammo and they tossed in a 1911 with a nifty holster to boot. As best as I can figure, I was in nearly 240 different fire fights. Never wore hearing protection in the jungle as we needed to hear everything.

I came home and used the G.I. Bill to get the flight ratings I needed to find a job with the major airlines. The road to the majors was not easy and I spent nearly 10 years flying freighters with those big ole' round engines and props that roared outside the cockpit.

I found that into my 50's I was having trouble hearing the radio, TV, and telephone ring. Even had a hard time hearing my wife blabber at me but that may have been selective hearing? Anyway, in my early 60's I was getting lost in conversations, especially in noisy places. I went to the VA. They fitted me with hearing aids but not before I got the lecture on how hearing damage is cumulative and it takes years before the damage rears its ugly head.

In order to salvage what hearing I have left, I pack my ears with ear plugs before going on the range and then put on the best hearing protection muffs I could find. Will that help me regain my hearing? Nope. But it will help me keep what I have left hoping all the previous damage will not continue to diminish what I have.
 
I was lucky enough to avoid any hearing loss while in the Army, I thought between the adrenaline pumping and my war cries it had some sort of talismanic effect. Since then, double hearing protection, wearing hearing protection when using power tools or even the vacuum cleaner, 65 and I honestly feel my hearing is more acute than ever.
 
I have little to no hearing loss, but I too use hearing protection when vacuuming, mowing the lawn or using certain power tools. The noise feels like it is eating away at my hearing, and since I shoot I am acutely aware of noise and hearing loss.
 
Good thread, it makes me feel better that I understand my issue now-hearing tested, said to be fine, yet I also cannot understand some of what I hear! Also have tinnitus and nothing seems to help it.

I remember vividly when I damaged my ear(left is far worse than the right, as far as the ringing): shooting my .357, 125 gr. HP, with 296. Young and foolish and did not pay attention after the first crack. Anyhow, now at age 62, I guess this gives me the ability to be more of a standoff-ish curmudgeon!
 
A question for ALL YOU DEEF COOTS:)

Do you find that your brain "fixes" gibberish words that the blurred hearing cant actually her as spoken?

Mine tends to "insert what it thinks it heard" when what I actually hear is *mumble mumble*:o
 
Cell phones (a bit of a misnomer since it is really a voice activated radio) make things more difficult than they should be.
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No. The term "cell phone" is NOT a misnomer. Cellular telephones are part of the wired telephone network. While the handsets are radios, they work on short range transmissions to a local antenna system creating a discrete sector - a "cell."

The antenna system is connected to a mobile telephone switching office (MTSO) that is, in turn, connected to the wired telephone network. That's how you make a call from Tampa, FL to Dallas, TX (as an example) - you transmit the signal from the cell MTSO in Tampa through the wired telephone network to a cell MTSO in Dallas.

Cells can be as big as 6 miles in diameter or as small as a single building (micro-cell) depending upon the anticipated call density.

The term "cellular telephone" is an exact description of the communication system and methodology. Your lack of understanding of the technology does not make the term a misnomer.
 
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