Ditto. What an annoying thing. To fall asleep (and I sleep extremely well) I have mp3s of comedy playing otherwise I only hear the sounds of my ears and cannot get to sleep. It tried muziek, nature noises, white noise, other noise; nothing really seems to work besides something that fluctuates enough but somehow not music. The stuff I play I know by heart so it does not interest me per se but it all still makes me laugh and is never annoying; cannot put on audio books as then I would not sleep but listen to them.
I cannot do speech conference calls mostly as I will hear nothing and real meetings need to be in quiet rooms or I hear nothing of what was said. Chat rooms are a godsend. Not sure what I would have done if I lived currently in the 80s.
Because I have had this for a long while I recognise people who have a similar or the same affliction; in business especially men are ashamed or something of it; many times in meetings when there is persistent background noise, I see people in the room who clearly understand absolutely nothing of what is said but act like they do. I just ask if we can move somewhere else or that they will need to start talking louder and while looking at me.
Besides the tinnitus my hearing is good; in hearing tests I score well and aids do not help with this.
tluyben2|7 years ago
I cannot do speech conference calls mostly as I will hear nothing and real meetings need to be in quiet rooms or I hear nothing of what was said. Chat rooms are a godsend. Not sure what I would have done if I lived currently in the 80s.
Because I have had this for a long while I recognise people who have a similar or the same affliction; in business especially men are ashamed or something of it; many times in meetings when there is persistent background noise, I see people in the room who clearly understand absolutely nothing of what is said but act like they do. I just ask if we can move somewhere else or that they will need to start talking louder and while looking at me.
Besides the tinnitus my hearing is good; in hearing tests I score well and aids do not help with this.