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  1. Mic Mike

    Can Talking to Friends Hurt My Ears More?

    That's great to hear, I forget about it completely when I'm around people and if I wouldn't be able to hear them laugh that would take away a great reason to live. It doesn't help that I tend to be the funnier person causing people to get louder than initially. It never sounded like my friend...
  2. Mic Mike

    Can Talking to Friends Hurt My Ears More?

    It's been a week since I've gotten it, I have a friend living with me right now and we've been sitting around laughing at things I was doing on the computer, having a good time, made me forget completely. I felt so comfortable that we started smoking weed, because there was zero chance I'd get...
  3. Mic Mike

    Rifle/Machine Gun Shooting Hearing Loss & Tinnitus

    Its disconcerting that no one acknowledged your post, you mention sounds going away after 2 weeks...I have a little bit of hope that mine goes that way but I need to accept this. How did the predisnone and vitamins treat you?
  4. Mic Mike

    Unprotected Hearing While Shooting

    Thought I edited the quote tag off the rest of my post. I mean, the ringing IS only in one ear, reading about headphones, I might switch to mono audio and only listen in the ok ear. I DO wear the earplug at work considering how loud that place is. But the problem is my hobby is recording...
  5. Mic Mike

    Unprotected Hearing While Shooting

    The ringing itself is starting to fade, but what worries me is I've read that the same thing has happened to many of you before it inexplicably peaked and stayed that way. I will bring an ear plug with me at all times, all things considered I'm unbelievably lucky and need to be thankful for the...
  6. Mic Mike

    Unprotected Hearing While Shooting

    I'm reading mixed responses about these steroid injections and I've gotten a recommendation about hyperbaric oxygen therapy. I don't know anything about either of these, if I can be treated now I need to do it fast but I don't want to end up worse than now and although I have a fair health plan...
  7. Mic Mike

    Are Headphones Safe?

    Would I be safe using my more expensive headphones with the volume perpetually at 70, and lower in the damaged ear with tinnitus? I'm finding media with headphones distracting enough that I don't notice my tinnitus despite them being noise cancelling but I don't know if I'm doing damage or not...
  8. Mic Mike

    Unprotected Hearing While Shooting

    Oh god no one told me there was potentially treatmentjust to man up and accept it. Fuck me, I even looked up anything available and found people having zero success at the doctors, if anything just making it worse. I'm texting from work where I load trucks and there's a constant buzzer going off...
  9. Mic Mike

    Unprotected Hearing While Shooting

    I guess many of us did make stupid mistakes but I should've known, I shouldn't have done it. It's no one's fault but my own and I have to live with it, because my life still has a big impact on others including my parents so I can't shoot myself unless it gets louder. It's not as bad as what...
  10. Mic Mike

    I'm okay.

    I'm okay.
  11. Mic Mike

    Unprotected Hearing While Shooting

    I know, I'm an idiot, I'm fucking stupid. I just never realized how retarded I truly was until I chose to shoot a .44 magnum without ear plugs. I thought I would be fine because I've endured shotgun blasts and unloading an AK-47, but I suppose I ran my luck short. I've recovered from many...
  12. Mic Mike

    We have to make it.

    We have to make it.