Ringing in ears.

Years of loud music and concussive blasts certainly take their toll. I still don't know why it is almost negligible some days and then almost soul destroying on others.

The nearest description I can think of is that it is like living with an almost permanent attack of white noise.
 
I can't listen to loud music at all. It sounds all distorted in my ears, when everyone else says it's fine. My ears are just sensitive, I suppose.
 
I've been going to/doing gigs for as long as I can remember, but I did a test thingy not too long ago and my hearing is still way above average. So is the damage really really really long term?

But my real question is what is making the ringing sound?
 
I have mild Tinnitus. In the day time i don't notice it at all, but about 6 months back when trying to sleep, i could hear a constant low frequency bass tone a bit like a car engine running outside, or a fridge freezer compressor. Over the course of about 3 months, the low frequency tone turned to a high frequency tone which is constant jet engine noise, and is most noticeable at night when completely silence.

Mine was caused by wearing headphones on my pc. Some songs and in game sounds are are suddenly a lot louder than others and its totally unexpected. That 2 or 3 seconds of intense volume increase over the years have given me this.

Crysis 2 was the latest game to set mine off for the worse. You jump on this lift on the side of a building and it crashes to the ground. Way over the top volume and totally uncalled for, especially when the rest of the game is at a comfortable volume.

Little tip, if you have an asus card, enable the smart volume normaliser. It tries to keep all sources the same volume levels, so no more unexpected frights.
 
I always wear ear plugs, attend/play gigs regularly so it is essential. If your hearing is really that amazing then I would protect it as you will notice when its harder to hear.
 
RobRX-7 said:
I have mild Tinnitus. In the day time i don't notice it at all, but about 6 months back when trying to sleep, i could hear a constant low frequency bass tone a bit like a car engine running outside, or a fridge freezer compressor. Over the course of about 3 months, the low frequency tone turned to a high frequency tone which is constant jet engine noise, and is most noticeable at night when completely silence.

Mine was caused by wearing headphones on my pc. Some songs and in game sounds are are suddenly a lot louder than others and its totally unexpected. That 2 or 3 seconds of intense volume increase over the years have given me this.

Crysis 2 was the latest game to set mine off for the worse. You jump on this lift on the side of a building and it crashes to the ground. Way over the top volume and totally uncalled for, especially when the rest of the game is at a comfortable volume.

Little tip, if you have an asus card, enable the smart volume normaliser. It tries to keep all sources the same volume levels, so no more unexpected frights.
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Oh my god the amount of times in Mass Effect when I would be scared ******** from a sudden LOUD noise whether it was crashing metal or whatever. Hate when they do that.
 
kaffe said:
But my real question is what is making the ringing sound?
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My educated guess is it's a hair cell which has been knocked down by a large pressure wave in the cochlea. Hair cells correspond to different frequencies depending on their location along the cochlea and they tell you that you're hearing that frequency when they bend. When one has been bent/kinked by loud sound it presumably continuously tells you that you are hearing that frequency until it straightens out, if it ever does. If you're hearing ringing, some damage will have been done.
 
All I know is that I have quite bad hearing loss due to listening to music too loud over my youth years.... I wish I could take it all back, I constantly hear ringing in my ears :(

Stelly
 
Hairs in the inner ear flatten.

Once they're flat then you get noise induced hearing loss. Good luck :p
 
kaffe said:
I've been going to/doing gigs for as long as I can remember, but I did a test thingy not too long ago and my hearing is still way above average. So is the damage really really really long term?

But my real question is what is making the ringing sound?
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Go to your local NHS Audiology department and book an appointment, unless you've already done this and this is what you mean by 'test thingy'. They'll give you the info you need, both current state and future implications.
 
Not good harming the hairs in the Cochlea. Once they break they'll never mend.

Tinnitus is caused from the hairs breaking and then falling/leaning on other hairs which triggers a sort of feedback in the cochlea with signals continuously looping around various hairs.

I always thought, unlike mentioned above, that the hairs do all frequencies and not just its "assigned" frequency. The hairs move with the flow of the liquid and then that's deciphered by the brain.
 
I've developed a ringing in my left ear recently, which I believe is down to waxy buildup. Just over a week or so ago I noticed my hearing had gone really muted and I had a feeling of pressure in my ears. Got some earex from the chemist and used it, which shifted quite a bit of wax, but my hearing is still not back 100% and the ringing/whining noise has persisted. I think theres still a bit of a waxy plug that the earex isnt shifting. Got myself a doctors appointment for Friday so hopefully I can get my ears syringed and sort it out.
 
Robbie G said:
Are you sure it's not Raymond Lin begging you for a date
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