Friends Listening to Loud Music, Yet They Don't Get Tinnitus?

So what always baffled me is how 90% of my friends listen to extraordinary loud music every single day and don’t get tinnitus. I always have to bring ear plugs for when I’m in the car with them. How come when I actively protect my hearing and never listen to loud music get tinnitus but they don’t? My dad has gone to multiple heavy metal rock concerts and doesn’t wear ear plugs when we ride motorcycles together and he doesn’t complain about ringing either. Why is this the case?

 

Because bodies react differently to stimuli, and therefore we cannot talk in absolutes, just in probabilities and statistics.

It is similar to smoking: you can smoke 3 packs a day for decades and not get lung cancer while there are people who don't smoke who get it. Your behavior can affect probabilities, but there are no guarantees unfortunately.

 

Maybe it's because of something like this:
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...cture-of-hearing-loss-induced-tinnitus.29512/

Maybe in future we know.

 

Maybe they do it will eventually. Tinnitus can be from a single trauma or repeated exposure over time. I used to listen to loud music a lot too and here I am.

 

Everyone is different but a lot of it has to do with incideous damage. They might get away with it for x amount of years and then one day when they are a bit older they go do what they always have one time only its the straw that breaks the camels back. I believe most of my damage was done over the course of 10 years in my work environment. It was damage that i didn't notice but then i went into an environment that a healthy persons hearing would be able to bounce back from only for me it didnt.