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Good deal Buddy. Glad you don't have a sufficient amount of hearing loss to the point of being in need of hearing aids.
I was basically told the same thing about ear protection, anything loudish can and will cause hearing loss if exposed to for extended or repeated times. Kind of an eye opener, isnt it?
Glad you went and checked it out. Now you know where you sit with the sitiation and what you can do to better and or prevent problems in the future.
Next Thursday I go and pick up my hearing aids. I'm looking forward to them actually. Will update this thread with how it goes and how much it helps, in case anyone is interested.
He recommended I come back in 3 years to get tested again. The damage does add up, year after year. He pointed out how the graph they use had negative numbers on the vertical axis up above 0. Zero is the median hearing of the population. The numbers that are higher up and negative are people with hearing that is better than the median. He explained that those are pretty much young kids that haven't damaged their hearing yet lol!
I started damaging mine when I was in high school in the 80s. I bought a kickass Alpine car stereo and cranked up Ozzy and Judas Priest about as loud as it would go with the windows up. My ears would ring for hours after that. Young guys can be stupid huh. My ringing recently has gotten worse, I guess it is all the concerts I have been going to.