Man, I can't stress this enough. TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEARING. I been DJing since 1992 and never did once I paid attention to my dad all those times when he used to tell me to wear ear plugs.

Now I wish I did.

Last week, my left ear was bleeding. It happened one day I was spending time with my girlfriend. I felt something funny inside of my ear, used a cotton swab, and it came out with blood. Not soaking in blood, but enough to scare the shit out of me.

I'm gonna go to the doctor and get my ear checked soon. Hopefully it isn't related to DJing and I'm hoping it was something temporary. However, I also been noticing that that same ear sounds a bit different than the other.

I'm now looking around for some professional ear plugs. However, I will hold back on purchasing them until I see my doctor. I wanna see what he recommends.

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Originally posted by DjWoody Man, I can't stress this enough. TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEARING. I been DJing since 1992 and never did once I paid attention to my dad all those times when he used to tell me to wear ear plugs. Now I wish I did. Last week, my left ear was bleeding. It happened one day I was spending time with my girlfriend. I felt something funny inside of my ear, used a cotton swab, and it came out with blood. Not soaking in blood, but enough to scare the shit out of me. I'm gonna go to the doctor and get my ear checked soon. Hopefully it isn't related to DJing and I'm hoping it was something temporary. However, I also been noticing that that same ear sounds a bit different than the other. I'm now looking around for some professional ear plugs. However, I will hold back on purchasing them until I see my doctor. I wanna see what he recommends.

Thats fvckn scary I hate hearing shit like that.

My vision has been getting progressively worse over the last 3 years (from smoking I'm only 26 too)
and when I wake up I can't see anything anymore unless I put my glasses on.
I'll be quitting soon but if I ever developed problems with my sight/hearing Id prob stoop into a depression.
Im a real artistic person I need all my sense working their best!

G/luck with the ears! Hopefully its something unrelated and nonthreatening.

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Yeah, that is fucken scary. I'm with you on the vision thing too. My vision has been getting blurry too. I'm an applications specialist, so I sit in front of a computer all day, plus when I get home too. And to top it off, I DJ using Serato.

I wear glasses, but only when I really need them.

That's why I don't work on production every day. Cuz I'm infront of a computer all day long. By the time I get home, I don't wanna see one!!! So I only work on Production once in a while.

I need to get more active and take care of my self. I'm also gaining A LOT of weight. I went from 225 lbs last summer, to close to 260 Today!!!

OUCH!

That sucks, DjWoody. Hope nothing is permanently wrong with your ears or hearing.

Seventeen years is a long time to be DJing. Your story makes me kind of glad that I didn't take up DJing myself, and that I haven't gone to clubs as much as some of my friends. My hearing is intact so far, but I still worry about this stuff sometimes.

Sad to hear your story, definately get it checked out. I mix my music at low volumes when im producing, for many reasons, and when I do get deeper into DJ'n I would definately employ ear plugs. Indeed take care of your ears folks!

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Yeah, I took on DJing when I was 13 - I'm 29 now. My cousin who I lived with at the time was a Rave Dj so he used to take me with him to raves and showed me the ropes to DJing.

Anyhow, I used to be one of those guys that had the music blasting in my room and in my headphones at all times. I used to get that ringing noise the day after. But many years ago I took 1/2 semester of Digital Performer in college. We all used to have our own workstations and set of headphones. One day my professor gave me the best advise ever!!! He basically said that if I couldn't hear him or my surroundings that I had the volume too loud. You don't need the headphones blasting to be able to enjoy music. If he was able to hear our headphones, he would punish us by removing lab privileges.

Man, I'm sorry to hear that. This kind of reminds me of "all gone pete tong." I would start wearing them all the time even when you are not dj'ing. Anytime you are around something loud, just put them in. To hell with how it looks. I had an incident where I clipped a bass drum in my headphones really hard, and I actually felt it hurt my ear drum. Ever since then I've been fucking crazy about my hearing. If I were you, I would stop dj'ing in clubs all together. Just play in your room with earplugs. Losing your hearing is not worth spinning records!

You would be amazed at how well your ears adapt to earplugs. I where them at work all the time. At first, everything sounds a little muffled, but overtime your ears adapt and perceive the sounds as normal. I use the spark plugs and I think they cut 33db. If you where them at work all the time, like me, everything begins to get loud when you don't have them in. My roomate drives me crazy with the tv volume, I find my ears are much more sensitive since I've been wearing them, especially to highs

If something's important to you, you'll do what's necessary to get it. If you value your ears, and want to keep them working as well as possible for as long as possible, you'll make sure you don't expose them to loud volumes. You'll wear earplugs at clubs, make sure you don't turn headphones up loud, and so on.

If health is important to you, you'll eat a balanced diet, exercise, not smoke, not take drugs, not drink alcohol to the point it has a physical effect, and so on. In the end, your actions show you your true values, your true priorities.

If you truly value health, your actions will reflect that. If they don't, you need to work out why they don't and either accept that health isn't important to you, and find peace in that, or work out which priorities you need to adjust in order to achieve the level of health you expect of yourself.

Glad I have had earplugs from day one I started dj-ing for $

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which ya got storyteller?

I think it's Exinore, I just went to a hearing specialist and got a pair measured up. I chose to get 15dB attenuation. Not that much, but good enough mostly.

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If less is more think about how much more more would be. -Frasier

I have my Dr's appointment tomorrow at 9:30am. We'll see how that goes.