Do You Safeguard Your Hearing?

Well, if you don't turn up your 2,000 Watt car stereo so that it can be heard 3 blocks away, with the windows up, you might have a fighting chance at retaining your hearing...

But for some reason it falls on deaf ears.

The article states: "Many use them at home and play" I use them at home, especialy when the wife and kids are there

Tinnitus in many people is probably caused by such exposure, but from personal observation, and not because I have seen it referenced, it can be due to inadequate quality sleep.

Given that some studies do indicate that large swags of the population have sleep deficit then the diagnosis of the cause of tinnitus by GP's is very probably quite high.

That should have read mis - diagnosis, to make sense.

Sorry that I mis - read the editing version.

I started wearing hearing protectors a few years ago while using lawn equipment. I try to remember to use protection anytime I expect a loud noise while using any tool but sometimes I don't think to grab the ear muffs before I start.

Probably should have started wearing them a LONG time ago but until the last few years I didn't wear them on a regular basis. Now I keep a pair of ear muffs with any tool I think is loud enough to warrant wearing them.

I religiously wear ear plugs in noisy environments because I lost my hearing in left ear due to an acoustic neuroma and I jealously guard the hearing I do have in my right ear. You'll never really appreciate what you have until it's gone.

I wear them even riding my motorcycle, not because of exhaust noise, but because the wind noise in the helmet will make you just as deaf. On a related topic, I wear that inconvenient eye protection too, much for the same reasons.

But.. but.. but..

My tinnitus (resulting from a couple of thousand hours of standing between turbo shaft engines on Chinooks with inadequate flight helmets) lets me know I'm still alive. If, on rare occasions, I don't hear the high pitched whine I quickly check my pulse.

Unfortunately, my ex didn't like the white noise generator I needed to get some sleep.

Seriously, protect your hearing in anyway you can, even when you don't think you need to. Cigarette filters will even help in a pinch.

Hooker

What?

Thulcandra - The Silent Planet

Maybe it isn't silent after all?

Hearing protection, which I also call "bullsh¡t filters", also saves one from lots of gossip and politics.

I try to be smart, keeping a pair of foam ear plugs in my pocket all the time. I wear them a lot -- for the electric weed eater, the vacuum cleaner, electric drill, carpool road noise and conversation, etc.

Then I got dumb, and thought I could catch up on podcasts while riding in the carpool. When the tinitus set in, I realized that I was turning the volume up too high to overcome road noise.

Be careful! Dumb is too easy.