Recent content by Cubist

glynis - I'm sorry about your parents. Losing loved ones is never, ever easy. Yes, life always moves on. It's up to each one of us to make sure that we go forward with it. That is certainly what our departed loved ones would want us to d0!! 40 to 50 db is pretty significant. Is the loss...

fishbone - Thanks for the encouragement. I guess none of us have much of a choice, though, do we? The sun rises, the sun sets, and life goes on with or without us. I choose to join in as much as I can and I know the types of situations that will pose problems for me ... I will still go to...

glynis - My injury is in or on the auditory nerves themselves; no matter how strong the (amplified) signal becomes at the origin of the nerve, if the signal frequency is inside "the frequency gap", it simply can't get through the nerve itself to the brain. Newer hearing aids can CHANGE the...

The gap (of hearing loss) is widening, so the beast will fill the void. I'll take the tinnitus ... like I said, there are worse things. My left eye has formed a wrinkle on the retina, and due to that, I have lost the focal point in my left eye; THAT is more important to me. That cat was...

I've always described it as "a billion crickets chirping in the distance". I first became aware of it when I was about 8 years old (1955), laying in a field of grass with a few of my friends; someone said "Isn't it quiet? I don't hear anything." That comment received a couple of "yeah"...

I first noticed my tinnitus in 1955, give or take a year. It wasn't until 1965 that I learned that I had mid-range hearing loss (I failed a military hearing test). In 1998, I finally found out that the tinnitus was caused by the hearing loss, and that the hearing loss was caused by a first...

Tinnitus isn't good, but there are a lot of other things much worse.