my ears

[jackola]

Well, a week ago I had an ear ache in my left ear... out of nowhere. I woke up and there it was. I hadn't been to anything loud in at least 3 days.

Then this past weekend voices started sounding funny. I could hear people fine but low frequencies had an electric kind of sound to it...

And now I can't hear bass at all out of my left ear and have a hum. A week after it started.

So I'm about to head to the death center here at BSU.

I hope I haveen't suffered anything permanent.

Think about what I do in my free time:
DJing (about 70 times so far in 2006)
Concert Photography (I've shot probably a dozen shows in the past few months... and photo pits are usually right in front of the stage, right in front of the monitors).

*crosses fingers*

.... either way I'm buying some nice ear plugs. I just bought new headphones to replace my sucky ones (they don't filter out other noise, so I have to turn them up higher).

Comments

[underthethrow.livejournal.com]

OH jeeze. Good luck. I hope everything turns out all right...

[le-negronomicon.livejournal.com]

i think it's a dj-virus going on.

i just woke up after turning on the fan for the first time in forever (when it got alittle chilly a couple weeks back) and my right ear felt 'full'... it was hard to hear bass and some plosive-frequencies (Ps, Ts, Ds, et.al)

fortunately, it was just an ear infexion. the fullness is still there alittle, even tho' the frequencies have returned to (somewhat) normal.

i hope you have something just as non-permanent. I refused to watch IT'S ALL GONE, PETE TONG b-c the hearing thing is a personal fear of mine.

it's funny that they still callthe BSU health centre "Death Centre".

sending you positive vibes.... (but not PLUR b-c I'm too tekno for that).

[http://users.livejournal.com/-sarasvati-/]

oh shit. i had that this past weekend. that exact same thing happened to my ear last friday and then saturday morning i woke up at 5 and my room was spinning really badly and i couldnt stop throwing up (sorry for too much info). i had to go to the hospital because it was an inner ear problem. i'm not saying it's going to happen to you, i would just go check it out because it sounds like the same thing and you might want to stop it before it starts. whatever it is, good luck, i know how much that sucks.

[fixinthemix.livejournal.com]

It's a pretty common fact amongst the DJ community that we all start to lose our hearing in our 30's. Seriously.