I can't even blame loud gigs etc. for my hearing loss. I was on holiday a few years back, and caught a cold. A week or two later, I woke up in the morning with shocking vertigo and completely deaf on one side with raging tinnitus. It's called sudden-sesorineural hearing loss. The cause is still not really known but the specialist suggested it could be the cold virus actually attacked the cochlear. Some hearing came back but not much.
On the bright side - my other ear works fine!
It's amazing how the brain learns to compensate - it's nowhere as debilitating as people would imagine. Trying to maintain conversations in crowded rooms can be a pain though.
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