Re: Protect your hearing in the truck


"tscottme" <blahblah@blah,net> wrote in message
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> "Troublemaker" <surfing_trucker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Am I more likely to develope tinitis while driving
>> with my CD/Xm player fairly loud?
>>
>
> You can develope tinnitus listening to anything, CD, CB if you can make it
> loud, talk radio, classical or country, or just loud engine noise. If
> what
> you are listeing too is loud enough you would need to raise your voice to
> speak to someone, that's the threshold for the start of hearing loss.
> While
> trucks have gotten much quieter over the years, the other side of the
> hearing loss equation is duration. Being in a moderately loud environment
> for hours and hours and hours can be as damaging over time as one loud
> concert. Hearing loss, especially for truck drivers, can be very sneaky.
> Since we are usually alone we can just boost the volume on whatever we are
> listeing to and not notice. People often first suspect hearing loss when
> they notice people around them are starting to mumble, or so it seems.
>
> I've done some research into tinnitus, and it seems many people have some
> of
> it but until they lose a certain amount of hearing they don't recognize
> it.
> It's like their hearing is good enough to hear everything around them,
> which
> overcomes the tinnitus. Then one day they can't hear other things so well
> so they begin to notice the ringing in their ears. Tinnitus can sound
> like
> almost any frequency of sound. Most commonly it is a higher pitch
> ringing,
> but it can be a lower pitch roar. It's most noticeable in the early
> stages
> when everything else is dead quiet.
>
> --
> Scott


Why don't you mention William Shatner? A lot of what I know of Tinnitus
came from him. You can search the web for "William Shatner" + "tinnitus"
and find out a lot more.

While you can "develop" Tinnitus, you can also just have it without high
decibels. It might also effect just a certain range of your hearing and not
all the frequencies.

You are right that, the sound isn't so much a single sound as in a tuning
fork, but a combination of them. So "ringing" might not be the best term
for it.

Again, having Tinnitus is not a death threat, but if you don't protect your
hearing, it could be a sign that you should start.

There are things I can never figure out. Like why people don't wear hearing
protection when sounds are so loud they hurt, or why people smoke when you
can see all the crap that is going into their lungs. But, I guess I
shouldn't try.


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