How do you all manage mild hearing loss?

Thanks for the feedback so far. On the upside for this entire community, there are promising technologies working their way through R&D that may be able to regrow the cilia (hairs on your eardrum) that vibrate and signal your brain that you're hearing things.

May be another 15 years until something is available according to an ENT that I know..

Anyway, I'll see if I can get my OCD to chill long enough to "hear" my way around this, while I work on contraptions.

At the next few concerts make sure your right ear is closer to the speakers.

Reality check: no ones hearing is what it used to be. We all lose it. There's a fool-proof cure that will stop hearing loss dead in its tracks. Its called: death. Until then its all downhill.

LOL, holy going deaf, Batman!! You learned to get around tendonitis, MC, Big ears, made me quite the barrel of laughs for the kids..
I never needed them. But I had a few close to deaf buddies, and a few cousins that were stone cold deaf.. love to dance though.

Something you got to LEARN to live with. Protection from now on will go a long way towards you future hearing, loss. Those little hairs in your ears can recover, A LOT, with rest. Don't drive with your windows open. Gargle with salt water. Take care of your throat, don't smoke cheap weed, make sure it's cured, no really fresh pot.. cure it.

Watch any tobacco, smoke or chew, CHEAP smokes are even worse.
If it has a filter, don't smoke it at all.  Get good pipe tobacco.  It is the best if your gonna use the stuff, and add a filter in your pipe or roll your own and add a filter.  Like the old guys use to say, they add filters to cheap tobacco, to make it taste better. LOL

Watch the boozin' it will cook your throat too, where your ear canals are, you know, ears outside, there are canals on the inside to take care of too.

I wish you well, young man.

Regards

Dougey,

I have mild loss in one and moderate in the other and tinnitus, to many years working around jets. ( With hearing protection )

As far as listening to music its not horrible yet, I am sure there are some details I miss. I can compensate by turning the volume up but then I may be causing further loss faster so I try not to do that. To often. Where its apparent to me is conversation, I miss words or have to ask for them to be repeated and the person is standing next to me.

I think the tinnitus is worse, always there and frequently increases for periods.

Stating the obvious but do you clean them well? I use Debrox first then the Rhino bottle. I think it helps a little with the tinnitus, maybe both, at least maybe keeps it at bay a little.

Interesting about the work on repairing the cilia hair, once those are damaged thats it. I believe instead of standing up they lay down. And tinnitus is the result of those hairs vibrating.

We just have to deal with it, now if they are able to repair the cilia hair that will be huge.

Will

Have you visited with a doctor to see what your hearing loss really is instead of guessing?  It seems like it would be easier to effectively remedy with a proper assessment of the issue.