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A little OT, but this is AMAZING!
Mstybl95
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A long time ago I was in an explosion. I lost most of my hearing in my right ear and have been suffering from tinnitus ever since. Today, on a whim, I bought a pair of bone conduction headphones because I read a review from someone else that suffered hearing loss and tinnitus and they said they could hear very clearly. Well, it has been a very emotional day for me. For the first time, in a long time, I was able to hear things without the ringing. I started with music and couldn't believe all the different sounds I've never heard before. I had my kids call me and I heard their voices without the muffled sounds for the first time. I heard their voices. Their real voices. And I played the sims and I heard all the little background noises I've never heard. I'm crying. I've been crying for hours just listening to all the things I've been missing. I usually turn the main music of the game down pretty low because the ringing and muffled-ness of it gives me a headache, but I was able to actually listen to it. I listened to all of it. I watched all the TV channels and listened to all of the radio stations. I got a whole bunch of kids together and listened to them play the piano and violin very badly and scratchy in the same room. To actually hear it on my right side, in kind of a surround sound. OMG! GUYS I'M DYING OVER HERE!
If you're wondering what they're like, they sit in front of the ears and it creates a vibration near my ears. I hear the sound somewhere in the back middle of my head. If I close my ear canals, I hear much louder and more clearly, but with them open, I still hear clearly, but I also hear everything else around me and the ringing. But the sound it creates isn't muffled and I can hear over the ringing...I don't know if that makes sense. But I can hear. I like want everyone in the world to call me so I can hear them. I'm so happy and so overwhelmed. I had to take them off to charge them and I'm back to not hearing and it's so upsetting. I've never had a hearing aid that worked well and now I'm going to ask my doctor if they have hearing aids like this. I'm so excited at the prospect of hearing again.
If you're wondering what they're like, they sit in front of the ears and it creates a vibration near my ears. I hear the sound somewhere in the back middle of my head. If I close my ear canals, I hear much louder and more clearly, but with them open, I still hear clearly, but I also hear everything else around me and the ringing. But the sound it creates isn't muffled and I can hear over the ringing...I don't know if that makes sense. But I can hear. I like want everyone in the world to call me so I can hear them. I'm so happy and so overwhelmed. I had to take them off to charge them and I'm back to not hearing and it's so upsetting. I've never had a hearing aid that worked well and now I'm going to ask my doctor if they have hearing aids like this. I'm so excited at the prospect of hearing again.
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My heart, my heart, My drowning heart, Oh all the tears I've cried
Oh I may weep forevermore, My love will never die..
I am so happy for you
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I just realized that people probably don't know what tinnitus is. It's when your ears ring constantly and it's a very high frequency. Most people have experienced something like it for a short duration at one point in their lives, but mine is constant. It wouldn't be so bad if my hearing loss wasn't so bad, but since it's muffled, the ringing is amplified. It keeps me up at night, it wakes me up when I'm asleep, I have trouble understanding people without reading their lips. The only thing that drowns it out is something very loud like standing near an airplane engine or huge air conditioning system.
If you watched the hunger games, the scene where Katniss blows up the thing and it explodes and the movie goes muffled and has ringing...that's what happened to me on my right side. It's been that way ever since.
Oh wow. This gives me hope. I didn't even know this technology existed and I've been living with this for 20 years now. I just found out about it by accident because I saw an ad for a set of headphones. Then I looked up bone conduction hearing aids and I'm wondering why my doc never even mentioned them.
I'm so glad you're hearing and it changed your life. This feeling is so much I can't even.
What a lovely post to read first thing in the morning.
I have some minor hearing loss (just some high frequencies) which was very upsetting to me when it first happened because I had temporary tinnitus for a while and used to have very sharp hearing and had to get used to the changes. I felt all of that again through your post but can only imagine what you've gone through over the years to have had it that bad.
Thank you for sharing your personal story, I love a happy ending. ❤️ May life bring you endless joy and new possibilities.
To be able to experience and enjoy the wonders of the world of sound in such a way again is a marvelous thing to happen.
I’m very happy for you and I wish you all the best. Thank you for sharing your story with us. ❤️
So happy for you!
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