My ears are ringing after listening to music. What should I do?
Original question: My ears are ringing after listening to music. What should I do?For starters, turn down the volume - a lot.Next, I would suggest that you do some research on chronic noise-induced hearing loss, which I suspect you are already inflicting upon yourself.The ringing in your ears is nature’s way of telling you the music is too loud. If you are young, and this is the first time you have noticed the ringing, give your hearing a rest and do without the music for a while and it may go away. If it does, consider yourself lucky, take it as a warning. You’ve already damaged your hearing, and that damage will never go away, but you can take steps to prevent it from getting worse.If the ringing doesn’t go away, you’ve got what’s called tinnitus, and your likely stuck with it for the rest of your life. At this point in time, noise induced hearing loss is irreversible. Medical science has come up with some pretty remarkable things in audiology, like digital hearing aids and cochlear implants, for example, but the ability to reverse hearing loss without mechanical/electronic assistance isn’t here yet.There are a few things you can do by way of damage control. First, as others have recommended, see an audiologist to have your hearing tested and evaluated, that way you know what you’re dealing with. Second, if you use ear buds, stop; piping the sound directly into your ear canals is harmful. Third, if you must use headphones, don’t put them directly over your ears, let the speakers rest on the bones just ahead of your ears.In some of the conferences I attended on hearing loss and hearing protection, the professional audiologists often used the term ‘the Walkman generation’ to identify the beginning of our modern habit of walking around piping music directly into our ears. The tag line was 20-year-olds with 50-year-old ears.Good luck.
Ringing in my ear from loud music?! ?
Hey, you keep that thing blasting full belt, why not, normal people need the sound up so loud that it hurts.Normal people do not have the sound to a comfortable level. Just check out the boom box sounds from cars, aint it great to blast out those tunes. Have you ever wondered why music artists wear hearing protection when on stage, do you suppose it is because they know that if you are exposed to loud sounds it can and does lead to deafness. The onslaught on deafness does not have to be caused by lengthy periods of loud noises, you can be deafened by just one loud noise. Makes no difference if the noise is lets say a gun shot or standing next to a speaker at a pop concert. Once that hearing loss has occurred, you cannot get it back, you are deaf. Why not play your tunes so that the experience is pleasant, why take the risk of making yourself deaf. You appear to be an intelligent person by asking this question, so take the warning.You may have already damaged your hearing, get checked out.
How long does it take for ringing in ears to go away after loud music?
Yesterday was my sister's wedding . At the dinner party the music was a little "too loud". I told the DJ to turn it down a couple times but he would just turn in back up.. Anyways to the point: The music/dancing lasted about 3 hours and now I have this annoying ringing/beeping in my ears.. I've gave it 24 hours and it hasn't wen't away yet.. I was wondering how much more I should give it before maybe seeing a doctor on it. Last time I has this it lasted like 2 hours and went away. This time it's been nearly 2 days. Other Symptoms: If I close my ears (by pressing down on the small flap right outside your inner ear) I hear a electric sound which sounds like when you're really close to a power line. Sounds the same. (This went away over night) Faded hearing (Made people sound like they're whispering but in the tone of regular talking (I suck at explaining :P). (This has decreased over night but is still present) Ok that's pretty much it :/ How much do you think it will be until it goes away? P.S. There we're also loud fireworks (not that loud though).
Ringing in the ears after VERY loud Concert?
The interesting thing about that ringing in your ears is that it signifies the dying of the the particular inner hair cells that can hear the highest of frequencies! The ringing is just their way of hearing, for the last time, that particular high frequency; when the ringing goes away, you will never be able to hear that exact frequency again. Weird, huh? The medical name for it is "tinnitus," and a link is provided below so you can read more about it. Just think about this the next time you go to a loud concert, and consider bringing earplugs with you. Usually the music will be loud enough so you can hear it just fine through the plugs.
Why is there a ringing in my ear after a concert? How long does it usually last?
It means that you've been listening TOO loud, and have activated the little mechanical "circuit breaker" in your middle ear that protects the delicate inner ear. It's a muscle that pulls apart the physical connection of two of the three middle ear bones for a while. As the muscle gradually relaxes (if you don't keep tripping it) your normal hearing will return in some hours. If you do this repeatedly, you are in danger of long term hearing loss. Look up "tinnitus" and you'll see how common chronic ringing in the ears has become. Also google "music hearing protection" for some medical sites explaining the dangers. Treat this temporary ringing as a warning sign to turn it down a bit from now on or face permanent hearing loss as you age.
Will the ringing in my ear go away?
Any time you experience tinnitus from exposure to loud noise, you experience hearing damage. The tiny hairs in your cochlea are damaged and you lose a little bit of hearing. Mowing the lawn, loud music in your car, or even from your I-Pod with ear buds or in-ear head phones (the worst offender) can cause damage. In a concert with loud music, the best thing would be to wear ear plugs. You will still hear the music, and may even enjoy it better! Notice that many professional performers wear ear plugs or special ear monitors that block out background sounds and protect their ears.
After playing loud music one of my ears is muffled. Will it go away?
It could be either. Most often, it is temporary, and many people experience this temporary loss of hearing after going to loud concerts. The cause is not "popping" your ears, it is actually that the intensity of the sound has traumatized the hair cells in your inner ear, causing what is known as a temporary threshold shift. Usually this will go away within a day or so, unless you had prolonged exposure to the sound. If you have a genetic predisposition to noise induced hearing loss, and/or have had prolonged exposure to loud sounds (in one session or over an entire lifetime), this can become permanent. The damage adds up over your entire lifetime, so the more noise exposure you've had, even as a child or young adult, the more likely you are to have permanent hearing loss, and the more likely it is to become worse. Take this as a warning, you had the volume high enough to damage your ear at least temporarily (though it is added to the "bank" of damage through your lifetime as well). If you want to keep your hearing, turn the volume down. If you're a musician, invest in some musician's earplugs.
Ringing In My Ear After Concert, Will It Go Away?
It will go away - but it's a sign that you have had some hearing damage. I'd highly recommend that you put cotton in your ears at rock concerts. You can still hear, but you won't come out with the ringing and further damage. For today you might want to consider putting cotton in your ears just to give them a rest. I know all of this has to do with the sensitive follicles that line the eardrum - once they're damaged they can't be repaired. But I'm sure the ringing you're hearing will go away soon in either case.
Tinnitus (ringing in ear) from being at music festival?
Long story short its not like i'm standing ontop of the speakers with amplifiers in my ears (i prefer the middle of the crowd), but my ears were ringing for a good 2+ hours after the concerts. I'm assuming that i've done some damage to them then but is there anyway to lessen this other than wearing ear-plugs?