u/Obvious-Nothing-4458

I'm might be a bit of an odd one out for saying this, but I never bought m/43 for portability but more for Olympus/OM weathersealing, the 300mm F4 for its size (Edit:the only thing I prefer being smaller) and price and the 90mm macro.

I have a 12-40 f2.8 with an Olympus EM-1 Mk2 as my first set-up. But I've been thinking about selling the 12-40 because I realized I would rather have a 45mm 1.2 prime and a UWA f2.8 zoom instead.

However, I also realized that this might be a good time to figure out if I should stay in the system before investing further. So i've been contemplating the Nikon Z5ii or Z8 and the Fujifilm XH-2.

Truthfully, im indifferent to what makes Fujifilm popular. So, I only care about their red badges and big lenses.

These are the main lenses I care about: UWA f2.8 Zoom, flagship macro, and a prime lens of 600 mm for wildlife.

I feel a lot better about having tinnitus, hidden hearing loss, and extended hearing frequency loss compared to before. I'll never truly get over it, but I know I can find happiness still. I'll always think to myself, "How would've this sounded like, " "How would the air feel in my my ears," or "I wish I could properly hear this or them."

The only thing that bugs me is how alone I feel. I have no one to really talk to and process my pain.

My parents don't take me seriously. They get mad or frustrated when I tell them because they think im making it up. They think that because my audiogram looks good, there shouldn't be any problems hearing or any severe tinnitus.

My sister, who made me go to the concert, which resulted in my hearing loss, doesn't care either.

That especially hurts because I didn't want to go with her and I took her there even though my parents didn't want her to go, because they're the type who hates any kind of city for some reason. I did a lot for her in life and spent a lot of time helping her with various things.

She bought a ticket even though I didn't tell her I was going to go. She then guilt tripped me constantly when I tried to pull out even at the last minute.

It's my fault for not understanding that a concert could give me hearing loss, but it's frustrating that she downplays everything that happened and what im feeling. She even made fun of me, too. When I put on earplugs and I cant hear the concert, of course im going to think maybe im overreacting.

The only one who believes me is my other sibling. They know because I used to be a lot more alert in my surroundings and used to get irritated at the slightest type of noise.

I don't even react to a lot of things anymore, I love being loud and energetic, but its hard because I literally can't feel my voice in my ears anymore or any kind of sound, vibration, air and temperature. My dad was test driving a car, and he was like "woah can you hear that engine roar!". I can hear it, but I can't feel it, so it sounds incredibly dull.

I don't know if anyone is even looking for a treatment for hidden hearing loss or if it's even something audiologists take seriously. Does anyone even know that you can lose all feeling in your inner ear? That its even possible to lose the ability to feel the air, the temperature, the humidity in the air, vibrations, echos, reduced volume perception and no sharpness, or clarity to sound? Everything sounds so soft and quiet now, like someone put a volume control on my life, reduced the sound quality, and put a sock on the speaker.

Ever since my acoustic trauma I thought my ears fullness went away at first, but I think it just got better not went away. I kinda need some help if this is actually correct, since I'm thinking about seeing the doctor because I don't know what this is.

Before my acoustic trauma I could feel sound, vibrations, echos, air and the temperature of said air travel into my ears. However afterwards I just can't feel anything in my ears anymore. I went to the beach recently and I just can't feel the cold breeze in my ears anymore, let alone hear it anywhere near as intensely. This is the second time I went to the beach and I didn't notice it the first time but I realized after the fact that it was quiet. I actually paid attention this time and it confirmed what I rememebered.

I guess ear fullness is like being paralyzed in the ear from hearing loss?

Does ear-fullness mean to lose these sensations completely? I'm kinda clueless because I can't really find information except the typical google AI hallucinating facts.

I have a normal audiogram but I suspect this one of this things where the audiogram doesn't say the full story.

I think I can finally start sleeping and being in silence now with my tinnitus without being extremely disturbed.

It bothered me a lot at first, and it still does. It never improved. Briefly, it went away for small periods of time for 3 days in a row, but it never happened again. Those days were also accompanied by a worsened softness in my hearing.

I had an appointment a couple of days ago to get checked by the doctor to get answers to my hearing and tinnitus. However, I canceled the night before because I couldn't make it most likely due to getting home really late and the appointment being in the morning.

The truth is deep down, I knew I might've just ended up wasting my time. Most of all, I didn't want to hear them not understand what im talking about. Taking me on goose chases might've ended up nowhere or them straight up brushing me off directly or indirectly.

It was easier to accept that my tinnitus is caused by an extreme loss in my hearing past 8khz, with some kind of hidden hearingloss or cochlear synatrophy and that I need to save myself the heartbreak of potentially not being understood but also confirming what I feared I already knew.

So the only thing to do now is to soldier on. Keep busy and enjoy what I still can. Avoid the silence and emptyness the tinnitus fills in. Most importantly, change my lifestyle to suit my condition.

I always enjoyed food and was always interested in photography. So I bought some film cameras and lenses to compliment my existing digital camera and decided to start traveling, maybe starting a social media page to display it all and to experiment with other forms of content. I still need to fix up a damaged tire that had a blade stuck in it, though.

I even tried listening to music again. It's not great having dull volume perception and everything sounding flat, but it'll do. Lo-fi is unsurprisingly not too different than before, so I'll try listening to that more often.

There will be times when im too tired to keep myself busy and the noise returns. I just hold on to the hope that maybe someday it'll be proven possible to fix this. Even if the cure is far away, proving that it's possible will give me hope.

Hope that one day, I can enjoy the scenery of life again, listening to life around me, how alive it feels, how alive music feels, and how alive I felt. At least let me not experience this constant noise in silence.

In a way, I feel like im being punished for the way i've led my life. A life of hopelessness and without urgency, so im cursed to never experience true peace and to feel less alive for real.

Despite that, I feel I can still achieve peace within myself.

I know tinnitus isn't only caused by damage. However, the question still stands as-is even though not all tinnitus can be cured through hearing restoration, if it even can.

What are your ideas for how medicinal treatment would work most likely?

Or whatever you think could cure or treat tinnitus.

In my opinion, if there's a medicine, it most likely would be something you have to keep taking after a certain period of time, instead of a permanent solution.

I heard some people are trying devices to cure tinnitus, so you can include that too in your answers.

You guys helped me a lot, im not the most mentally well person so I tend to get anxious easily.

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Wether or not my T goes away is still scary to me and makes me anxious still but I've been coping better. I've accepted it if its permanent or long term.

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Hell I even recently spiraled into depression for a bit when I realized the reason why my hearing is different is because of extended frequency hearing loss most likely and that it wasnt going to come back. I especially fell into despair when I realized if scientists are already having trouble with normal hearing range restoration, what more past that? If such thing was even possible musicians and audio enthusiasts would've been lining up for it to really get that hi-fi 20khz back. Add in the complications of cochlear synatrophy.

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When I calmed down, I felt ashamed when I realized im essentially whining over something that could be much worse. Im sorry if some of you seen my posts and felt like I was being overdramatic.

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I don't know where my life is going to go but if I ever get somewhere in life or have a social media pressense, I would advocate and spread awareness of the struggles people with hearing loss and tinnitus are facing. I realize just how little attention there has been in this issue.

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Thank you to all of you, it means a lot to me.

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I've received some hearing damage that im sure is out of normal clinical testing range. I've got an extreme dullness of hearing.

Im not sure if Kaiser can help me since im not sure if my doctor is going to take me seriously.

Did anybody actually find anything useful in these tests, at least for those us who had this all started from noise exposure?

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I've had a normal audio test, but im experiencing a big difference in my hearing that affects even touch and vibration. Sound is very soft to me, and loud noises don't sound harsh, volume doesnt add anything, all in addition to my tinnitus.

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I suspect at least some kind of loss because I used to be able to hear those social media frequency tests to test age at 16khz to 17khz but it caps out for me at generally 11khz to 13khz for most Instagram posts. Meanwhile, my sibling caps out at 16khz.

My audiocheck.net used to max out at around 17khz to 18khz but now maxes out at 14k.

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It's not really scientific, I know, but it gives me a hint of where to start. I know there's nothing can be done, but I want to get an audio history done while im only 22.

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A month ago, I went to a a rock concert that damaged my ears, and 2 1/2 weeks later, my hearing test came back with an almost straight line of 5db, with 6hz and 8hz at 0db.

However, my hearing is different, but i can't find the proper term to describe it. I do have tinnitus in quiet environments.

I no longer feel sound reaching my ears, and a lot of noise harshness is completely gone. Things like turning up speaker volume don't really do much and cars no longer make a harsh woosh when passing by.

However my hearing with headphones is still normal, even at the lowest volume. I notice when I place my phone speakers near my skin, my audio perception sharpens a lot more and volume changes become more dynamic.

I don't have trouble listening conversations in loud situations.

I was thinking about getting a professional AF camera to compliment my Canon New F-1and Pentax K1000 for convenience, but I kinda realized it might be hard or expensive to repair them if something is broken.

Which makes me wonder, what cameras will generally best stand the test of time for repairability?

Maybe around 20 years from now, no-one can service my New F-1 and its complex features properly. Especially since it was discontinued in the early 90s, which was way sooner than the 2001 of the LX, F3 and OM-4TI, or 1999 of the X-700.

Its been 5 days now and I still hear the ringing, with my right ear being worse. Both my ears feel fatigued and I realized i had a sensitivity to really loud high pitched noises.

The only sign i can observe for hearing loss is that i rang the doorbell of my house and I couldnt hear it from outside like I normally could, not sure if thats just the tinnitus overpowering it though.

Any advice for how long I should wait before I can start listening to music at concerts and headphones again, along with tips to not make it worse? I stopped listening to any audio entirely to protect my ears for now.

For some reason my sibling had the ringing go away on the same night and they had them on as frequently as I did, along with only having 1 in at times.

They never complained about any hearing problems as it resolved that night for them for some reason.