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Hearing Problems?
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A big button that says "DEAF" would probably really help in stores and things.
My wife once told me I was as deaf as a post, and I thought she told me I was as deaf as the pope.
Mine are good. They make the difference between having to stand sideways in front of my wife with my hand behind my ear or hearing fairly well from the next room. Still, I have a lot of trouble.... Everything still sounds kind of muffled, and any background noise makes things pretty hopeless. Eventually I'll probably have to go with cochlear implants.
A big button that says "DEAF" would probably really help in stores and things.
My wife once told me I was as deaf as a post, and I thought she told me I was as deaf as the pope.
One NICE thing about severe hearing loss... Once a day, I go out with a churchwarden pipe and a dusty old book, and I leave my hearing aids in the house. Kinda NICE for a while...
I hear ya Marty………well kinda a………….but yes mine sure do help and I struggle with background noise like yourself. It’s like hearing aids amplify non speech resulting in oversupply of all noise which I find is so fatiguing, feels like your ears have gone 5 rounds with Mike Tyson in his prime. Any way I’m still happy that I have something that helps and allows me to participate in conversations in a half normal way.
Sounds like we're both in the same boat. I think high frequency hearing loss is usually the worst, and they try and compensate for that by turning UP the high frequencies. It's the best they can do, and it helps, but for me, a cat sounds like a crow, locusts sound like an avalanche, and a crying kid in the store sounds like a circular saw.
This thread got me thinking... I've long figured having a button that says I'm deaf might actually be a practical help in grocery store checkouts, etc, but most have too much of a "poor little me" flavor. However, I just ordered this one off ebay... Looks like it hits about the right spot.
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Good thread. I think I hear live people well, but too often watching streaming shows or listening to podcasts, it's often muddy. Sometimes turning so my right ear is closer helps, but not always. I am hoping it's that some shows are bit starving the audio, but don't know. I guess I should reveal this is while watching in bed, where one ear is typically muffled. Or muffed, whatever.
On bagpipes, the sound emanates from THE BOWELS OF HELL!
The sound comes out of the drones (chair leg looking things at the top) and you twist them to tune them
I can hear many now saying ..............."you can tune bagpipes!!!!!"
Drones, then is the proper name, not just "pipes"... But does that protect the piper to some degree from sound invasion?The sound comes out of the drones (chair leg looking things at the top) and you twist them to tune them
Nothing protects the piper when playing. What most do is practice on their chanter (pipe they hold in their hands) which is much quieter but at the end of the day they have to get their pipes out and play, love or hate it.
I can hear my constant, bilateral tinnitus just fine.
Concerts and punk shows through the eighties and nineties, competitive shooting with only foamies through the aughts and teens of this century, twenty five years of heavy equipment and construction without ear pro (for reasons @Richmond B. Funkenhouser cited), and 25+ years of Harley’s with open or nearly open pipes, have left me with a good amount of loss.
Being married for thirty plus years (to three different women) definitely has affected the range of female speech
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I’m pretty sure the constant bilateral tinnitus started as an apprentice heavy equipment operator running Terex TS14’s (push/pull scrapers-each equipped with dual Detroit two stroke diesel powerplants).
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Concerts and punk shows through the eighties and nineties, competitive shooting with only foamies through the aughts and teens of this century, twenty five years of heavy equipment and construction without ear pro (for reasons @Richmond B. Funkenhouser cited), and 25+ years of Harley’s with open or nearly open pipes, have left me with a good amount of loss.
Being married for thirty plus years (to three different women) definitely has affected the range of female speech
.I’m pretty sure the constant bilateral tinnitus started as an apprentice heavy equipment operator running Terex TS14’s (push/pull scrapers-each equipped with dual Detroit two stroke diesel powerplants).
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Those old Detroits have a lot to answer for and have sent many a good man down with bad ears. I can still hear the scream of them...............
At my work place we get tested for hearing......I just want to to do my job,this is just a nuisance for all.... everyone just wants to do their job and go home!