Today I found out I am lossing my hearing. I am young, younger than most, I cannot even rent a car, and yet I am losing my hearing! My grandmother is lossing her hearing, but she is almost 75! It all started with the sound of a teapot going off in my ear and the sound around me going in and out. Of course like most people my age I like my music LOUD! Not only do I like it loud but I like it to go directly into my ear. I have ear buds, not headphones, but ear buds. They fit firmly in my ear and cancel out all other noises around me. As a child I loss my hearing totally in my left ear and 75% in my right ear. They did some surgery and bing bang boom I could hear again. My mother would always warn me not to listen to music too loudly because she feared I would do deaf for real this time. Although I knew the danger of listening to music too loud my headphones or ear pieces would usually breakdown before my ears would even hurt. Now they are more advanced and they last a lot longer. Also I was hoping that medical science would come through and solve hearing loss. I mean they did give sight to a few blind people so saving an ear with more than a hearing aid seemed probable. Unfortunately this has not happened and I dou
bt it will by the time I do go deaf. Fortunately for me I still have a lot of my hearing and I just have to hold off cranking up the tunes in my ear. I guess I could use speakers... I will have to make a sound proof room 1st though. I am giving this a Digit Down because this is not cool, this is not fun, I am too young to have these issues. What is next for me, prostate problems?!? That could actually happen, you would have to be me to know why.
Apparently 1 out of 5 American teens has hearing loss, up 5 percent. As I am writing this I am blasting music in my ear so this may be true, although I am not a teen. The hearing loss was slight and equates to the sound of leaves rustling or a mother whispering, which I am sure the teen can hear but chooses not to. The cause for the hearing loss? MP3 players of course! Mostly anyway. Doctors are urging teens to turn down the volume and turn it up no more than 50% of the allotted volume. I do know that some times I wake up wondering if I am def, and then I turn on the television and I get happy. These new earbuds are smaller and fit more directly in the ear which makes the music sound louder and clearer, especially as the volume gets louder. It is suggested that you buy noise cancellation headphones to prevent you from cranking the music up too loudly. If you do not know, hearing loss cannot be repaired, once it is gone, it is just gone forever. Doctors worry that this will increase in the future and start to affect even younger children. I think instead of lowering the cost of mp3 players and lower the cost of good noise cancellation headphones. The best and cheapest pair I found were starting at $150, and I could buy any ole mp3 player for less than $100, even name brand ones. I will give this news a 
Digit Down. Not because of the hearing loss, but because there are billion spent every year on medical research and yet we have nothing to reverse hearing loss better than a freaking annoying hearing aide! Horrible.
Today I found out I am lossing my hearing. I am young, younger than most, I cannot even rent a car, and yet I am losing my hearing! My grandmother is lossing her hearing, but she is almost 75! It all started with the sound of a teapot going off in my ear and the sound around me going in and out. Of course like most people my age I like my music LOUD! Not only do I like it loud but I like it to go directly into my ear. I have ear buds, not headphones, but ear buds. They fit firmly in my ear and cancel out all other noises around me. As a child I loss my hearing totally in my left ear and 75% in my right ear. They did some surgery and bing bang boom I could hear again. My mother would always warn me not to listen to music too loudly because she feared I would do deaf for real this time. Although I knew the danger of listening to music too loud my headphones or ear pieces would usually breakdown before my ears would even hurt. Now they are more advanced and they last a lot longer. Also I was hoping that medical science would come through and solve hearing loss. I mean they did give sight to a few blind people so saving an ear with more than a hearing aid seemed probable. Unfortunately this has not happened and I dou
bt it will by the time I do go deaf. Fortunately for me I still have a lot of my hearing and I just have to hold off cranking up the tunes in my ear. I guess I could use speakers... I will have to make a sound proof room 1st though. I am giving this a Digit Down because this is not cool, this is not fun, I am too young to have these issues. What is next for me, prostate problems?!? That could actually happen, you would have to be me to know why.
