Yes, it doesn’t take much. Been around lots of gunfire, etc. my whole life by had several episodes of heavy gunfire in enclosed spaces in my early 20’s of which my rifle and others near me were fired near my head and my ears have never been the same since. No hearing protection being worn obviously. One of the events caused me nearly lose all hearing in my right ear. I need hearing aids but don’t want them. My wife begs me to get them. I have to watch TV with subtitles. I’m 44. Lol
Re: TV subtitles
Not only do subtitles help me understand, I have noticed that most of the time, when I do not clearly hear the words, the subtitle print out stalls or posts gibberish.
That is actually encouraging to me, that the computer cannot understand it any better than I can.
I also keep my TV volume low, lest I disturb my neighbors.
I have tinnitus also. High pitched squealing. I keep a radio on an AM station to cover it up. As to the hearing aids, I started wearing them in my mid 50’s. The audiologist told me that the longer you wait, the harder it is to adjust to them. The brain forgets what certain sounds sound like and it takes a while to re train the brain to those sounds. Nice thing about them is when I go to bed, I don’t hear much of anything.