Great Thread on Hacker News About Hearing Loss and Tinnitus

There's a great discussion thread on Hacker News about hearing loss, started by a guy who suffered serious acoustic trauma from dropping a toilet cistern lid. Aside from the original article, the comments is a gold mine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16723099

In the thread:

• Some success stories of people's T going away years after acoustic trauma (!)
• Dangers to watch out for you wouldn't think of. E.g. hearing damage from dropping weights in the gym
• Discussion of long-term earplug use.
• Discussions of using in-ear sound-isolating monitors to listen to sound in high-volume environments ("I’ve started to just wear those in ear monitors around even without listening to anything. The ear plug feature is actually really great. I can get on muni or bart in the Bay Area with them and listen to a book at 3-4 clicks of iPhone volume. It’s pretty great to get used to things being quiet.")

Just putting this here because I got a lot of value from reading the whole thread; some of you may too.

 

DAMN! I wish someone were to advise me of

 

@Bill Bauer
very interesting and it makes sense. But still that experiment was risky AF

 

Why?

 

what if it would have caused permanent hearing loss?

 

How could this happen? In other words, I can see how being exposed to more noise for 48 hours can cause hearing loss, but not how not doing "something that could cause hearing loss" might cause hearing loss.

 

I don't know what to make of

 

We have 2 animal studies showing that exposing ears to moderate sounds right after trauma provided better hair cells recovery than complete silence

 

@Canadaman wow the link is very informative and positive, another helpful information for the people

 

Very interesting, can you provide any links?