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bjones6416 · 10-26-2010, 10:09 PM

I've had three operations to restore my right eardrum, and the one last year finally took (hallelujah!) except for a small hole which I can live with. For the 12 or 13 years it was blown out, though, I was ridiculously sensitive to noise, to the point that it really kind of shaped my life. I stopped going to loud restaurants or anywhere where there might be a big crowd. It seemed strange to me that I was actually LESS sensitive to loud noises once I had better hearing until I saw the results of my hearing tests, before and after. Before, I had lost the range speech falls in, but retained the range of all that crazy ambient noise. It played weird games with my filtering ability, I guess. Much better now.

I'm not sure what my point started out to be here (brain cramp!), except that sometimes with less hearing you can be actually more sensitive to noise.

10-26-2010, 10:09 PM	#223
bjones6416 ↓↓ Skirt!! Earrings!! Posts: 3,394 Karma: 17432172 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Georgia, USA Device: Acer netbook, JetBook Lite, Sony PRS-300, Kindle 2, Kindle Fire	I've had three operations to restore my right eardrum, and the one last year finally took (hallelujah!) except for a small hole which I can live with. For the 12 or 13 years it was blown out, though, I was ridiculously sensitive to noise, to the point that it really kind of shaped my life. I stopped going to loud restaurants or anywhere where there might be a big crowd. It seemed strange to me that I was actually LESS sensitive to loud noises once I had better hearing until I saw the results of my hearing tests, before and after. Before, I had lost the range speech falls in, but retained the range of all that crazy ambient noise. It played weird games with my filtering ability, I guess. Much better now. I'm not sure what my point started out to be here (brain cramp!), except that sometimes with less hearing you can be actually more sensitive to noise.