Hello Everybody
Just wanted to say hi and maybe share with others out there who suffer from tinnitus.
I'm a 43 year old musician. In retrospect I realise now I had hyperacusis, had super sensitive ears, and as a kid it was torment when an ambulance went by, for example. Cinemas were horrible places for me, anything big and noisy was horrific. I couldn't believe how loud different places were, in these 'normal' environments. I get it now, why certain tribes in the Amazon, suffer little hearing loss even in old age - because they all talk quietly, everything is very quiet, and they need their ears to be good in the forest...
But I tried to harden up, be 'normal' - yep, that was dumb, since now I have tinnitus. But I never really spoke to anyone how sick I felt at loud noise etc. Seemed pathetic somehow! Or how odd it was that I could hear the tiniest of noise coming through the wall or from the room next door... Always had to sleep with earplugs. Seemed to me, it was a question of hardening up to it...
As a musician, I've really put ears through the ringer (pun not intended!!), and now I have hearing loss too it would seem.
Tinnitus really started for me in 1999. I've adjusted my thoughts on the matter several times through these years. but I've reached a new slump.
Having adjusted my thinking to the fact that silence doesn't exist for me anymore - and that I'll never hear bats ever again, with their sonic pulses (that ability went long ago...), - I'm now realising that I just don't hear my music very well. E.g. a well mixed pop track sounds all boomy to me, as if the engineer hasn't bothered with the high end... If I increase the volume, it sounds too loud, and the lower notes hurt my ears, without helping me really get a super fine sense of the higher frequencies. That depresses me. I just can't get a proper handle on the high end. It all sounds like a mess.
What's strange, is that even now 'normal' volumes of things I find difficult to cope with sometimes, even though I've lost ability on the high end. I thought some deafness would have helped with that!!!
That's about it, in a nutshell.
Does anyone feel that their tinnitus actually makes their ears more sensitive to sound, as if the ear is desperate for a rest? (perhaps that's a question for the forum proper, not this 'hello' bit).
Just wanted to say hi and maybe share with others out there who suffer from tinnitus.
I'm a 43 year old musician. In retrospect I realise now I had hyperacusis, had super sensitive ears, and as a kid it was torment when an ambulance went by, for example. Cinemas were horrible places for me, anything big and noisy was horrific. I couldn't believe how loud different places were, in these 'normal' environments. I get it now, why certain tribes in the Amazon, suffer little hearing loss even in old age - because they all talk quietly, everything is very quiet, and they need their ears to be good in the forest...
But I tried to harden up, be 'normal' - yep, that was dumb, since now I have tinnitus. But I never really spoke to anyone how sick I felt at loud noise etc. Seemed pathetic somehow! Or how odd it was that I could hear the tiniest of noise coming through the wall or from the room next door... Always had to sleep with earplugs. Seemed to me, it was a question of hardening up to it...
As a musician, I've really put ears through the ringer (pun not intended!!), and now I have hearing loss too it would seem.
Tinnitus really started for me in 1999. I've adjusted my thoughts on the matter several times through these years. but I've reached a new slump.
Having adjusted my thinking to the fact that silence doesn't exist for me anymore - and that I'll never hear bats ever again, with their sonic pulses (that ability went long ago...), - I'm now realising that I just don't hear my music very well. E.g. a well mixed pop track sounds all boomy to me, as if the engineer hasn't bothered with the high end... If I increase the volume, it sounds too loud, and the lower notes hurt my ears, without helping me really get a super fine sense of the higher frequencies. That depresses me. I just can't get a proper handle on the high end. It all sounds like a mess.
What's strange, is that even now 'normal' volumes of things I find difficult to cope with sometimes, even though I've lost ability on the high end. I thought some deafness would have helped with that!!!
That's about it, in a nutshell.
Does anyone feel that their tinnitus actually makes their ears more sensitive to sound, as if the ear is desperate for a rest? (perhaps that's a question for the forum proper, not this 'hello' bit).
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