actually much more background noise too.
That is the reason I highlighted this. It's getting more of a problem for me. At work I suffer from it too being in a noisy office.
Thursday is going to be interesting at the ear clinic. I have constant whistles in my ears... but when I ask others about this.. they shake their heads and don't understand.
I don't have it myself, and I've only met one other person with it, she couldn't go to pubs at all, but I've known about it as a condition for ages.
Maybe it's 'cos I can relate to it as I just don't like those kind of environments.
Most other people seem perfectly happy having shouted conversations, I just don't get it!
Hope they sort you out at the ear clinic.