Wow. Nearly every little tiny hair in both of my cochleas has broken off, causing inability to understand voices over crowd noise; constant sound of crickets rising and falling (from the broken ends giving false reports of sound), and earaches if I'm around anything loud.

Goddamn, I miss cranking it up to 11. But of course, the doc says that'w what caused it in the first place.

Take care of your cochlea and it will take care of you.

darkhorse23: Goddamn, I miss cranking it up

I know what you mean by that. But, in my case the high frequency loss makes it difficult to understand female voices. So I guess every cloud has a silver lining. ;)

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Same, I can't hear high frequencies. Damn you rock and roll, damn you!

tinnitus is a biatch...damn rock and or roll.

Weekly ear infections as a child insured that I can't stand to be in a silent room for the deafening (I know, how is that possible?) roaring ringing noise. People ask why don't my loud computer fans bother me...because I wouldn't be able to sleep without them.

submitter: Your ear is like a tiny subwoofer

Sorry, you mean "woofer." "Subwoofer" is a subset of woofer, and would be incorrect to use in this analogy.