It is thought that perhaps Vincent Van Gogh probably had tinnitus. And that that is why he cut his ear off. Hmmmmmmm, wonder if it helped.

I have had tinnitus for sometime. I also take an aspirin a day as a blood thinner. I'm thinking this probably has some effect on it.

But who knows for sure when it really happens. Cassp, I'm surprised to hear that it seems that you can really relate this to one incident. That must have been some real loud music. I think for most it's how loud for how long and how many repitions.

I remember shooting guns. One of the last time I was testing out my 25 caliber automatic pistol, my hearing actually went down, it sounded like I was under water, and my ears really were singing then, but it went away shortly after.

I also remember listening to a local rock band that was really pretty good, but talk about loud. They were so loud that if you stood in front of their speakers, I actually could feel pain in my ears. I didn't stand there long I'll tell ya.

I wonder how the lead guitar player is doing from the rock band I was in in the '60's. That was when everyone had to have speaker cabinets as big as refrigerators.

He had the biggest Fender. He might have had two of them stacked on top of each other. But, what I do remember was on one song he used to kneel down on the floor and put his guitar pickup right in front of the lower speaker so he could get feedback like the rockers liked to do then. His ear was then right next to the speaker above it and he'd do this for quite a period of time. One of those long jam tunes. Every time we did this tune we had to take a break, he'd then go outside because it gave him the dry heaves. Fun stuff huh? Eeeeeeeekkk!


[This message has been edited by Scott Langholff (edited 08-08-2007).]