Need Medical Help.

[Puzzles]

Been on a battlefield recently?

I have. And I can tell you without a doubt that yes, Love can in fact bloom there.

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[Ph33nix]

you damaged your hearing with the headphones. you heard makes alot of strange noises that sound like a "ringing" most of the time other noises drown them out. when someone damages the outer part of their hearing system (i forget the scientific name) they begin to hear these noises that are inside there head. i don;t mean crazy inside your head. i mean like blood flow and the electrical impulses in your head.

Thats actually what seems to be happening. I do have a very soft ringing if I concentrate on it when I'm in total silence.

So, I've just damaged the outer part of my ear? No cancer? No tumor? No life threatening illness? Just outer ear damage?

i just want t osay I'm no doctor and this is nto a prfessional diagnosis. now with the legal stuff out of the way. Yeah our heads have wierd noises in them and we can't normally hear them in the enviromental noise cluter we are exposed to but if we loose the ability talking to hear high or low frequency noises then we start to hear the inner noise of our heads. Blood moving, other liquids moving, electricity jumping, muscle movement, glands pumping. all sorts of crazy stuff.

To the point. Its the hairs in the ears or the ear canal or the ear drum.

So I have ultra sensitive hearing? Sweet.

The ringing isn't loud enough to where I can't concentrate or I can't hear over it, but when there is total silence (like when I go to sleep) there's a soft ringing, so I never gave it much thought.

Its not even bad enough to where I can't sleep, its just a low volume ring.

well no your hearing isnt wicked sensitive. the more sensitive it is the less you hear the ringing.

 

[TimeLord75]

Ringing in your ears is natural.

Fail. Ringing in one's ears is NEVER natural, unless one has just left a rock concert or just been exposed to ginormously loud sounds without appropriate protection.

I AM a tinnitus sufferer. And yes, while it can be caused by medications and allergic reactions, there are also traumatic causes. When I was little, I would get frequent ear infections. My middle ear would fill with fluid, which would press on the inside of my tympanic membrane (aka "the eardrum") and hurt like hell. The standard treatment for recurrent crap like that (at least, back in 1979-80) is to punch a small hole in the eardrum and insert a small tube. This allows the fluid to drain so the infection can be treated appropriately. The tubes eventually fall out or are removed, and the eardrum heals over. Well, in my case, my left eardrum never healed. The damage was gradual yet insidious. I heard ringing for years, but it was quiet and ignorable. I'm now 34 and it can get pretty gorram loud. I don't notice it most of the time, but try talking to me sometime when there's other stuff going on. Sorry, can't hear ya--or if I can, I can't understand what you're saying. If you're walking away from me or facing away while you talk to me...yeah, not catching it. High-pitched or soft sounds? Nope, don't hear 'em. I have a cat. I love my cat. My cat is my child. Did you know I can't hear my cat purring?

RE: the OP. I'll echo everyone else and say "go see a doctor". Also, lose the earphones. Yes, that means going without your music for awhile. Deal. Your ears will thank you. You have thousands of little tiny hairs inside your ears that help you detect sound; loud sounds flatten them so they can't vibrate, meaning you don't hear. With time, it's possible they can "unflatten" some. Good luck.

But yeah--see a MD. Sooner rather than later. And by "sooner" I mean "tomorrow if you haven't already".

 

[magnuslion]

most likeyl, Tinnitus. and go see a bloody doctor fer chrissakes.

http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/ringing-in-the-ears-tinnitus-topic-overview

 

[Spaghetti]

Have you been in contact with bacteria or viruses recently? Because they can fuck you up.

Seriously, I suspect that very few people here have studied medicine. And anyone who says that they have is likely lying. Go see a Doctor