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I accidentally did something similar, but there’s a significant cost. Got tinnitus at 15 and over time my brain filtered out the sound. Unfortunately one of th

I accidentally did something similar, but there’s a significant cost. Got tinnitus at 15 and over time my brain filtered out the sound. Unfortunately one of the tones was in the upper vocal range so I then developed trouble understanding people with higher-pitched voices as some syllables would be entirely filtered out. Second is that I stopped paying attention to sounds that aggravated it. This caused me to gather more damage and I ended up getting additional frequencies that my brain wasn’t filtering out.

criddell 2y ago
Have you tried hearing aids? I went to an audiologist a week ago and found that I have mild hearing loss in higher frequencies and as a result certain letter combinations are hard for me to hear. She told me hearing aids might help. I get a 30 day free trial, so the only thing I have to lose is the time to get them and get them dialed in. The audiologist also gave me a copy of the audiogram. In the health app I used the camera to scan it and it adjusted the frequency output on my ear buds to compensate for some of my hearing loss.
technofiend 2y ago
That's the real problem with hearing loss: if you compensate by raising volume across the entire spectrum of sound to compensate for a few frequencies, you slowly make yourself more and more deaf. And I suffer from a notch in my hearing where speech is generally found, so I hear clinking glasses and shuffling chairs far easier than people. It's aggravating for everyone involved. If you're lucky enough to afford hearing aids, you'll soon discover hearing aid companies know the best fidelity comes from high discretion and narrow band amplification. And they're pricing hearing aids accordingly: the more and narrower the bands, the higher the price. Also aggravating.

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I accidentally did something similar, but there’s a significant cost. Got tinnitus at 15 and over time my brain filtered out the sound. Unfortunately one of th

by joshspankit 2y ago

criddell 2y ago
Have you tried hearing aids? I went to an audiologist a week ago and found that I have mild hearing loss in higher frequencies and as a result certain letter combinations are hard for me to hear. She told me hearing aids might help. I get a 30 day free trial, so the only thing I have to lose is the time to get them and get them dialed in. The audiologist also gave me a copy of the audiogram. In the health app I used the camera to scan it and it adjusted the frequency output on my ear buds to compensate for some of my hearing loss.
technofiend 2y ago
That's the real problem with hearing loss: if you compensate by raising volume across the entire spectrum of sound to compensate for a few frequencies, you slowly make yourself more and more deaf. And I suffer from a notch in my hearing where speech is generally found, so I hear clinking glasses and shuffling chairs far easier than people. It's aggravating for everyone involved. If you're lucky enough to afford hearing aids, you'll soon discover hearing aid companies know the best fidelity comes from high discretion and narrow band amplification. And they're pricing hearing aids accordingly: the more and narrower the bands, the higher the price. Also aggravating.