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In Reply to: RE: $12.50 posted by hifitommy on July 12, 2017 at 16:44:15
A few years ago my wife (of now 44 yrs.) suggested I get a hearing evaluation, to which I complied. I digress slightly here, making note that I'm convinced one of the main reasons I've been married so long & so happily, is that I learned early on to comply with almost everything she suggests, also noting that she is smarter than me & is mostly correct about pretty much everything upon which she opines. Okay, so I have had a ringing in my ear(s) since 1970, which was brought about by a rocket (in Viet Nam) landing close enough to knock me out of my bunk one night in our base camp. >The hearing evaluation was done by a person in a hearing aid store. Upon completion, the gentleman showed me the graph of my exam & explained things I didn't understand until he looked at me & said, "I could sell you an excellent hearing aid for a very reasonable price, but it wouldn't do any good. Hearing aids aren't the answer for your problem." I always knew that volume of conversations / sounds wasn't a problem, I just couldn't understand some things people said. He told me I wasn't hearing most vowels because of damage to something in there, meaning, I supposed, in my ear and all the non-audiophile cable connections to my brain. Sadly, I concluded no amount of hi-end connectors, nor application of De-oxit would help. The good news is the ringing is very clear, and tinnitus does come in handy to excuse not hearing something you don't want to (commonly referred to as selective hearing). Also don't know if sensitivity to loudness is related to tinnitus, or if it's just old age, but I find that sounds or noise a bit louder than conversation level are painful.
Everyone thinks I'm strange except my friends deep inside the earth
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Thanks for your service. If you haven't looked into it already, you may be eligible to receive VA compensation for your tinnitus if they determine that it is service-connected. The rules for determining this are beyond my understanding, but any veterans' service organization (E.g., DAV, VFW, American Legion, among others) can give you more information and help you file a claim at no charge if you choose to do so.
Not too many service members clap on hearing protection in combat, so lots of veterans have service-related hearing loss and tinnitus.
Thank you pbarach for your kind words & info. Oddly, I never considered your suggestion about the V.A. I think perhaps because tinnitus is not a "visible" problem, such as wounds or an agent orange disease, I just went along with it as an unavoidable by-product of daily combat. At least that's what my excuse is for not thinking of it in the same way that you pointed out. Anyway, thanks again for your post/reply.
Everyone thinks I'm strange except my friends deep inside the earth
"Everyone thinks I'm strange except my friends deep inside the earth."
Maybe not everyone, especially if you have some LIVING Vietnam veteran friends.
I did my training as a psychologist in a VA hospital in 1979-1980, when I had a chance to talk to many veterans from WW2 and Korea, as well as from Vietnam. I feel privileged to work in a VA hospital now (NOT one of the hospitals that gets featured in horrifying news stories), where I still see some people who served in WW2 and Korea, as well as many Vietnam veterans and people who served in all of the combat zones the US has been in since Vietnam (Kosovo, Panama, Grenada, SW Asia, and others). Many wounds (not just tinnitus) aren't visible, including PTSD. And there are many who have service-connected conditions unrelated to combat, such as back problems from marching with 80-lb rucks, sexual trauma, exposure to chemicals, etc.
Any veteran who has health issues that they feel might have begun in the service has the right to file a claim for financial compensation for the injury or illness they suffer from as a result of serving their country. The ins and outs of the process are not a topic for this forum, but a VA representative or a veterans service officer from a veterans' organization is the best place to get more information.
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