Tinnitus Talk Support Forum

The gift that keeps on giving.

I feel I'm at least fortunate enough that I got a of mileage out of my ears before they sought payment.

@kingsfan that's how I look at it. In fact, I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did!

@Steph1710 I know @kingsfan used to turn it up to 11, but I'm kind of surprised to hear that you did too. Are you a musician?

@Barry098 grew up in a house full of musicians. Mum was in a rock/metal band. My life was surrounded by people playing various loud instruments. I was always tripping over amps and wires - dragged along to rehearsals. I'm an audiophile too. Love, love, love music. Music = life.

I'm the annoying person who sings a line of a song for every sentence someone speaks. I sing and play guitar. Though, I'm much better at singing than playing. Would have gone the musical route for work, but wanted to be a historian instead - very different from each other lol.

Earliest memories I have are of me placing the needle onto the record, listening to the crackle just before the audio starts. I must have been 5/6. I'm 32 now. I was the kid who walked round with a big tape deck, supplying my friends and I with music wherever we went. I'm still the same now.

Interesting how we are taught to be afraid of the unknown dangers but in reality it is the commonplace things that surround us that will cause us the most harm. I love music but I hate what it has done to me.

@Barry098 I don't hate what it has done to me. I hate that we were never warned about loud sounds giving us a permanent noise. I always knew about tinnitus, & thought it was an awful condition which I never wished to have. If I had known I could get it from loud music and headphones, then I most certainly wouldn't have listen to music as loud as I did. There simply isn't enough awareness of the damaged sound can do.