Lives of/options for gay over-18 year old Thais.

[Nirish guy]

I dont mind admiting that I AM currently sitting here in work wearing two small hearing aids and I KNOW for a fact that my time in thai discos and night clubs is at least partially responsible for that occurance ! I actually have very clear recollections of at least three incidents of my walking out of several Thai late night clubs with loud ringing in my ears that lasted for up to two days at a time and I'm reliably informed that THAT was a sure sign of hearing damage taking place.

On top of that and to add to the problem I also played in a cabaret music band for about 10 years and so spent many nights standing on a stage, way to close to amps and speakers etc, but I KNOW my hearing loss increased dramatically after numerous trips to Thailand and I became more and more aware of that after each and every trip.

Of course I HATE the idea of having ( or choosing) to wear any sort of visible hearing aid and whilst I dont necessarily "NEED" them i.e. I'm not totally "deaf", I cant deny that they're not useful or that I'm not "hard of hearing" sometimes and hate them or not they ARE bloody handy when perhaps in a business meeting and not wanting to sit struggling to hear every word or in a busy restaurant and not having to concentrate so intently on my dining companion that they begin to think that I'm falling in love with them as I'm staring at them so much :-).

So my advice to all ( as needing said hear aids came as a big shock to me) is yes defintely to wear ear plugs or the likes when in Thai clubs and to hell with what it looks like as once your hearing STARTS going, that's it, it's going and it's never coming back so be sure to take care of whatever hearing you have left !

PS for the record I do remove said hearing aids when out partying as I'd hate to ruin my good looks ( Joke!).On the [;us side ( if there is one) I also suffered from Tinitus and the aids seem to have reduced that somewhat, plus they also give me a GREAT excuse to TOTALLY ignore my BF whenever I feel like it as I "can't always hear him" ( when it suits me) - so, always a silver lining eh !