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My dream job would allow me to travel, meet interesting people and to be on a never ending adrenaline high. Wait, I had my dream jobs. The first was when I was in the Army and the second was when I was an electrical lineman!

Jelena, I want to assure you that you do survive tinnitus. My tinnitus started in April 1972 when I was in close proximity to an explosion in a confined space. I was in the army at the time. My tinnitus has mostly been a hissing sound that has varied from very soft to quite loud. And at...

The above post is true. I responded to this type of electrical trouble call about once a month for the twelve years I worked as a Troubleman. These weren't pleasant to work because it meant that you had to root around back yards in the middle of the night trying to locate the correct trash...

...and when you replace an old smoke alarm-if it isn't hardwired in-pulled the battery. If you don't, it WILL start blaring in the middle of the night, and you will be calling your electric company to complain about the "noisy transformer!" Then you will find yourself standing in front of a...

TheGagagirl1234, first welcome to this board you will find that you have many fellow travelers here. I have had the privilege of visiting your beautiful country and my little girl (she will be 40 this summer) was in college spent a semester in Copenhagen. She has returned to visit her host...

Johnny, you are right on. My epiphany came when I was in the 4th grade. That was the year they introduce history in our curriculum. I took the book home that first day and had finished it by the end of the week. I fell in love with history then and it has been a life long love. Not a...

Thank you Teri.

I don't have an entity but I do have a philosophy that I follow. It is De Oppresso Liber. It is the motto of US Army Special Forces and it means "to liberate the oppressed." I interpret it to mean "protect those who cannot protect themselves."

It sounds like your T is pretty mild. Other than you description with the saw, you don't say what other exposure to loud noise you might have had. On the up side, if your T is permanent, you do survive. I've had T since early 1972.

I guess I was a nerd. I went to a small school in the midwest. So most of the boys played sports (I played football and ran track and was student manager for the basketball team.) And many of us were in the band too. In my Senior year I was the one voted to not try to avoid the draft. (I...

Brianna, we each have our own "normal" and we each have our own "hell." And like Erik's father, T is the least of my worries. For me the T was like living in a sound booth for eternity. For most of my working life my worries centered around the safety of my Lovely Bride and my Brilliant...

But if you want to experience real pain, play Aussie Rules football! For those who are unfamiliar with this sport, it's kind of a cross between Rugby and American football, with the intensity of Jungle Rules Volleyball (basically, throw away the ball and just start swinging.)

Shantelle, you are a mother, you have strength few of us can ever imagine. And you do survive. I have suffered from tinnitus since April of 1972. My T (and hearing loss) was also due to noise exposure but a little bit different from your experience. One night I found myself a little to close...

My T happened to me when I was 19. I was in the Army and serving in what was then West Berlin. My unit was training a unit from West Germany in how to fight in built-up areas. I was crawling through a tunnel when some one threw a hand grenade simulator (a very large fire cracker) in to the...