burnsey66
Registered user
Blokes walk round holding hands too.
It’s called progress
It’s called progress
I've lost upper ranges in both ears, in part corrected by hearing aids which I have to wear all the time. I struggle with crowds as I can't tell who's talking; everything just becomes "chatter". Parties are out as I feel excluded. My wife always sits next to me when we socialise so she can fill me in on all the bits of conversation I miss. I need subtitles to watch television. I don't bother with cinema. When I was working, colleagues knew to tap me on the shoulder to let me know they were talking to me if I was engrossed in something.
And then there's the tinnitus. Constant 24 hour a day hissing in both ears. It further muffles sound for my already defective ears. It keeps me awake and wakes me when I sleep.
All this, according to my audiologist, is due to riding motorbikes in the 70s and 80s before earplugs became the norm.
So, your choice. Wear earplugs or don't. To prevent further damage, I wear them.
I've lost upper ranges in both ears, in part corrected by hearing aids which I have to wear all the time. I struggle with crowds as I can't tell who's talking; everything just becomes "chatter". Parties are out as I feel excluded. My wife always sits next to me when we socialise so she can fill me in on all the bits of conversation I miss. I need subtitles to watch television. I don't bother with cinema. When I was working, colleagues knew to tap me on the shoulder to let me know they were talking to me if I was engrossed in something.
And then there's the tinnitus. Constant 24 hour a day hissing in both ears. It further muffles sound for my already defective ears. It keeps me awake and wakes me when I sleep.
All this, according to my audiologist, is due to riding motorbikes in the 70s and 80s before earplugs became the norm.
So, your choice. Wear earplugs or don't. To prevent further damage, I wear them.
My hearing has really suffered. Working on bikes in some shape or form for the last twenty years and I now struggle to have a conversation in a noisy pub and have to lip read a lot of the time!
You do know you can get a personal hearing loop that sits under your chair cushion and plugs into the tv.
See the RNID website.
Tom
and once it was considered good for you to puff 20 woodbines a day. Smoking didn't stop my uncle living to 80, so what changed there then? Modern PC rubbish I say.From 16 to about 40 I rode motorcycles - a few wailing 2 strokes and many across the frame four cylinder 4 strokes, with rather loud (and by today's standards, illegal) exhausts.
After a 15 year break I return to find that I must wear earplugs or I'll be deafened by the noise, both wind and exhaust, by the time I pass the corner shop at the end of the road
What's changed?
Smoking didn't stop my uncle living to 80, so what changed there then? Modern PC rubbish I say.