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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dirty" data-source="post: 325707" data-attributes="member: 6535">I’ve had it since I was twelve. I remember the exact gunshot that started it and another at age 17 that set it in permanently so I guess I’ve had it constantly without any intermittent relief for 25 years now. After going insane for a few months I then got used to it. My loss of hearing secondary to the tinnitus became the biggest issue. All I do is religiously wear ear protection now while emphasizing and ensuring that my kids do also. I need background noise to sleep, like a fan running or something or all I hear is the high frequency squealing in my ears. I also bought some cheap Howard Leight Impact Sport ear muff things for hunting. It was a long shot but since they were cheap I went for it. Holy balls, it was a lifesaver and a game changer. They give me super human hearing so I can’t imagine what they would do for someone without hearing loss. The first time I put them on I heard sounds in the woods I had forgotten even existed. I could hear water flowing in a creek, grass crunching beneath my feet, bugs buzzing by, birds singing…Now I can hear geese approaching the decoys from a mile away, I can hear a hen turkey Yelp from two miles away, I hear grouse coveys taking flight before my other friends do, and best of all I can communicate with my kids when we are hunting even when they are whispering. I have a part of my life back that I had assumed was gone forever thanks to some clunky headphone looking things. I’m not sure if they make smaller versions of them yet. They were $40 a pair last time I checked, but I just looked now and they are about $60.  I bought 4 of them a while back. I may buy 4 more because they are my lifeline when hunting. Outside of hunting though, when my earmuffs are off, my hearing sucks and even after visiting an audiologist I just have to deal with it and unfortunately so do my family and friends. $10,000 for hearing aids just isn’t gonna happen until I’m totally debt free with money to burn (so probably never gonna happen).</blockquote>

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