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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 2, 2013 15:02:19 GMT
I think it started around mid teens. It got steadily louder from nothing and then has stayed pretty much the same for the last 20 years or so. When I am doing something such as watching TV I can get to the point where I am not really registering it, but it is still there. It does not plague my minute-by-minute life.
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Post by Kye on Nov 2, 2013 19:44:26 GMT
Because of my Menieres I constantly hear my heart beating. Plus I'm quite deaf from time to time. Very stressful, actually, especially for someone who had had heart problems!
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Post by tangent on Nov 2, 2013 20:05:35 GMT
I've heard that flooding your ears with white noise can retrain your brain but it takes a few months.
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 2, 2013 21:06:35 GMT
I am never sure about those sorts of cures. As long as it's not a problem I am disinclined to even try it.
Aside from the screaming, the range of my hearing is very good. I can still hear around 100-16800Hz according to my dog whistle app on my phone. I have tried it on other people, many younger than me and they do not hear anywhere near that high. Even though I cannot hear real sounds that high, I think the tinnitus whistle appears to be over 17000Hz, which is very strange.
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Post by tangent on Nov 2, 2013 21:49:37 GMT
Crumbs, over 17kHz is high.
Your range of hearing is very good. When I was 20, I listened to a range of frequencies on a vinyl disc and found that I could hear 18kHz. But I suspect the audio equipment wasn't able to reproduce 20kHz and so that might not have been my limit.
Many deaf children, who have been very deaf since birth or an early age, have extremely loud tinnitus but they are not bothered by it. It shows that a coping strategy is well worth the effort. Just don't let it bother you.
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 2, 2013 22:14:28 GMT
Yeah... it's not going anywhere so I just have to pretty much just phase it out. It is very strange that it is a tone that I cannot hear in reality and I think it helps that it does not cross over with anything. It is hard to quantify to other people, which I why I usually just refer to a jet engine noise. I remember from school being able to hear a bit higher, but it's not really that useful most of the time. There was that mosquito ring tone a while back that "adults can't hear" but I could... and many kids could not!
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Post by whollygoats on Nov 4, 2013 17:36:51 GMT
The old nostalgia thread was much better than this one. That must be your fault...I'm doing what I can.
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 5, 2013 20:47:43 GMT
I saw Steve's comment on hearing the air raid sirens and it jogged my memories of the attack sirens and having to all file out of the classrooms, into the hallways, where we seated ourselves on the floor with our knees up and did the 'duck and cover' routine....like we might have survived a nuclear attack. Yeah, right.
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Post by Alvamiga on Dec 5, 2013 20:55:12 GMT
I think Duck and Cover was more about making people think they could do something useful, rather than thinking it was hopeless and getting paranoid instead. Nothing is better than the door I have propped up against a wall and painted white.
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Post by spaceflower on Dec 7, 2013 3:04:28 GMT
I remember than we had no TV, no computers, no internet and no cell phones. I remember when the cows had names instead of numbers. I remember when we had hay stacks instead of those white bales. sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rundbal
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Post by Alvamiga on Dec 7, 2013 10:18:09 GMT
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Post by bill on Dec 8, 2013 11:53:13 GMT
I remember than we had no TV, no computers, no internet and no cell phones. I remember when the cows had names instead of numbers. I remember when we had hay stacks instead of those white bales. sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/RundbalYep, me too.
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Post by Moose on Dec 9, 2013 1:54:38 GMT
Just rereading and now am craving grilled spam with cheapo white bread and ketchup
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Post by Mari on Dec 9, 2013 20:54:14 GMT
I remember when people actually watched TV instead of downloading complete series and watching things on Youtube... kids these days really don't watch all that much 'old school' TV any more.
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Post by tangent on Dec 10, 2013 0:56:43 GMT
I was almost five when I first saw squiggly lines (interference) on my dad's cathode ray tube and thought it hilarious. It was my first itroduction to TV.
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Post by Kate on Dec 29, 2013 14:55:36 GMT
Hmm, do remembering videos and tapes count? And actually using a floppy disk and Walkman?
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Post by Moose on Dec 29, 2013 18:52:01 GMT
I still have a Walkman somewhere . Also still have loads of videos! You can get them virtually free from charity shops these days
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Post by Kate on Dec 30, 2013 17:56:33 GMT
I know, and I still have a video player haha
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Post by Mari on Dec 31, 2013 11:15:55 GMT
me too. I actually just bought a new videoplayer because I have loads of videos and it would be a shame if my oldone broke without me having a new one.
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