Ear noise

[Old Corp]

Have had notable hearing loss for years due to being around sirens and building alarms and probably a little unprotected shooting - but no tinnitus until a few weeks ago.

I deer hunt with a handgun - this season's choice a S&W M57 .41 Mag, 6". In the past, I always hunted from either a climbing stand or a ladder stand, i.e., out in the open. Never used or felt I needed ear protection for that one shot.
This season I hunted from an elevated plywood-constructed box blind and shot at a doe at last light. The muzzle and cylinder gap were outside the blind window, but OMG, did it ever ring my bell.
Now I have tinnitus.
I'll never use that box blind again without electronic ear muffs.

 

[Camster]

I have it bad in both ears, super high pitch surround sound 24/7.

Me too, though the volume can change, and at times, one ear is louder than the other.
In my twenties, 1970s, I did not wear hearing protection at the range (who did?) I've also used some power equipment without the benefit of hearing protection, so perhaps I was destined to have it one day.
What set mine off, was charging up two flights of stairs when I hear my bedridden 90+ mother repeatedly yelling for help. By the top of the second flight, I had pulsative tinnitus-surely my BP had really spiked. It settled down to just steady tone tinnitus since then.
...I don't think it helped my BP either when I learned that the cause of my mother's alarm, was simply that she could not find the tv remote in the blankets.
Sleep is the only escape.

 

[oink]

Yep. I have it too. I can often ignore it if it's not too quiet. First time I noticed it I was high in the mountains in a lava field in the clouds. It was perfectly quiet except for the whining electrical transformer somewhere close. As the clouds lifted I never could find those power lines and transformer.

Shooting, outboard engine powered patrol boats (use a Bimini Top for the sun and the engine noise is even louder) and chain saws and such, but I think the biggest contributor was patrol cars with crappy speakers you had to turn way up to hear when driving and roof mounted sirens that were pretty deafening inside the car which necessitated turning the radio speakers up even louder.

And yes I hear the noise all of the time. There is no longer any such thing as quiet in my world now.