Saw your follow-up appear a short while after I'd posted this response ... nice to know that you've got a diagnostic lead (may check up on that m'self in case there's anything useful I can employ against the tinnitus ... just because it's basically a short-circuit in the brain creating imaginary noise doesn't mean I can't try to fight back)
I've had much cause to be glad of my loud music loathing because I know that, despite the t-thing, most of the time I've better hearing than several younger-than-me folk of my acquaintance. Although I do chuckle sometimes over the fact that I may have been the only teenager on the planet to have had a habit of asking parental units to please crank down the volume on their stereo. On the downside, means I've had to pass on a lot of tempting concerts because I can't cope with loud amps at all (those do leave me functionally deaf ... I end up able to hear the rhythms for hours afterwards, but not much else, as if my poor eardrums are stuck on that particular vibration frequency or something). Ah well ... I just spent the money on books instead. ;p
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Date: 2009-03-19 03:33 am (UTC)Saw your follow-up appear a short while after I'd posted this response ... nice to know that you've got a diagnostic lead (may check up on that m'self in case there's anything useful I can employ against the tinnitus ... just because it's basically a short-circuit in the brain creating imaginary noise doesn't mean I can't try to fight back)
I've had much cause to be glad of my loud music loathing because I know that, despite the t-thing, most of the time I've better hearing than several younger-than-me folk of my acquaintance. Although I do chuckle sometimes over the fact that I may have been the only teenager on the planet to have had a habit of asking parental units to please crank down the volume on their stereo. On the downside, means I've had to pass on a lot of tempting concerts because I can't cope with loud amps at all (those do leave me functionally deaf ... I end up able to hear the rhythms for hours afterwards, but not much else, as if my poor eardrums are stuck on that particular vibration frequency or something). Ah well ... I just spent the money on books instead. ;p