GCS

Remember that the guidelines, i.e. 80 dB for 8 hours and so on, are complete bullshit. 100 dB is L.O.U.D, an acoustic trauma.

@GCS same dude. Same.

me too..

Hang in there. Tomorrow may be a better day.

uh... I don't think that's quite how it works...

If i didn't got to that 1 concert i would never have it either.. but truth is, you could of got it from a fire alarm, sirens, a virus many other things.. It sucks but that's how i think. That maybe i could've avoided it, but maybe i couldn't have

@GCS Sounds like an exceptionally good audiogram. Is your T loud? I personally believe T, in some cases, has less to do with objective hearing loss and more to do with the predisposition in the brain. Do any relatives have T too?

@Stacken77 well it's loud. I hear it easy outside. Well apparently my father and my grandmother has tinnitus but I doubt it because they say it l doesn't affect them at all while I'm going crazy...

@GCS Sounds like it may run in the family. I have tinnitus 3 generations back as far as I know. Are the tones very high in frequency? Because high frequencies can be heard in most environments, even though they're not that loud. I have a few high frequency tones that can be heard outside.

There is no fast way, it just takes time, but it does get better..

No. But it slowly gets better.

To me a static hum is a hum like White Noise.

I think of static as the crackly sound, with hiss being more steady and smooth.

I'm not going to speak for everyone else, but I just trudge on through life.

One weird thing that has helped me is to walk outside while wearing earplugs. When it doesn't have any sound to compete with it sounds quieter for me, and after a while doesn't bother me much.

The first 3-6 months are usually the worst.

exactly. most people dont even know how to put in earplugs properly. also how the fuck do so few DJs have hyperacusis? its infuriating.

hey music producer here. tinnitus is not spoken about because it's the same effect as "do not drink and do not do drugs" people will not understand the after effect of either until it happens to them. unfortunately warning about such things in an event is "lame." and people will always want the music louder even though the actual sound engineer behind the event does not want to exceed it.

I think most in all honesty. I'm pretty sure porter robinson has it. I saw luca lush talk about it on twitter too.

@Foamearplugssuck San Holo too

@Foamearplugssuck axwell, afrojack, mark ronsom and who knows how many more

be careful not to regret anything pfvr. take care of your ears.

That’s a good thing… cheers to you

nah... still hate it...

My bad lol

I read several places that an estimated 10-15% of the population has chronic tinnitus and the vast majority only have mild or moderate tinnitus. Intermittent tinnitus is much more common.

@danielthor how severe is theirs? Do they hear it over a lot of stuff or only at night?

@PortugalTheMan i think tinnitus is because a lot of haircells or synapses get wiped out at once and the brain is missing them.

They say it’s really bad when it spikes

@GCS I've listened to my grinding and buzzing at maximum unmasked level for 5 months. I'm definitely used to it by now, but it sure gets uncomfortable when it spikes. You'll habituate in time, but it takes lots of time.

I used to live in headphones! I never thought I’d would be in a world where I wasn’t attached to a pair.. BUT dude, seriously you can’t use them anymore. Just do what I do and play your music out loud obnoxiously everywhere you go.

@Stacken77 Used headphones and buds for 10 years, no T because the volume knob made sence. Bought a new car with awesome sound quality but the volume knob fucked me and got T.

@GCS Yes, that's my experience too, but once we have T we have a new way of sensing hearing loss; our T increases. It doesn't take all that much to worsen the T once we have it.

You are so mad at your car. Maybe you want to burn that motherfucker down? No, seriously, man, just calm down. Some things just happen. You can't prevent everything. I know how you feel. I've been there. All these feelings are very destructive.

I have a decibel meter on my cell phone. I turn it on when I listen to music in my car so that I can be sure how loud it really is and I don’t rely on the bar displaying the volume on the stereo. I use it everywhere like restaurants etc. Sorry to hear this happened to you.

@Forever hopeful yes, I measured it with a phone app on full blast. It showed around 95dbs but I doubt. My ears would have been perfectly fine because I haven't put it up that high for a long time (probably for couple of seconds)