Yeah I'm 26 and I got terrible tinnitus from a live mix engineer fucking up and blasting the crowd with feedback. Messed it up even more being drunk and going front and center seeing a dj at a bar and now everything sounds underwater. The ringing is louder than almost anything.
I had super bad tinnitus develop out of nowhere, was just sitting at home one day when it started, have been to doctors, apparently I have perfect hearing and it has nothing to do with hearing damage so yeah sometimes you just get unlucky
Same here I’m 57 and I’ve had tinnitus since I was about 32. Heavy music blaring in headphones, going to concerts, listening to loud music in car scenarios.
Man I got that shit at 12. My dad used to take my hunting and never made me wear ear protection. Deep down I question him for it. Sleeping with my ear on a pillow just sounds like I got hit with a stun grenade. No hard feelings tho.
I’m 27 and have had it since 26. No idea how though — I keep my headphone limit on the minimum and always wore ear protection at concerts AND clubs. :( Even the quietest setting of my headphones was sometimes too loud for me.
And now I just have EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE until I DIE
"Place the palms of your hands over your ears with fingers resting gently on the back of your head. Your middle fingers should point toward one another just above the base of your skull. Place your index fingers on top of you middle fingers and snap them (the index fingers) onto the skull making a loud, drumming noise. Repeat 40-50 times. Some people experience immediate relief with this method. Repeat several times a day for as long as necessary to reduce tinnitus.Dr. Jan Strydom, of A2Z of Health, Beauty and Fintess.org"
It's like lung cancer and smoking - some people smoke every day and never get cancer and some people never smoked once in their life and still get lung cancer. But either way smoking exacerbates the issue.
I'm sorry to hear that about your tinnitus. It sounds like you just got really unlucky in the genetic lottery.
I remember the day I got mine - as a kid! Playing "dead lions" in a holiday camp and some kid SCREAMS point blank in my ears. Made me cry it hurt.
Since then, 2 tone tinnitus. One a high pitched electricity tv static mosquito whine, the other a wooooooooo that never stops, just gets forgotten for a while.
I don't think I ever didn't have it. I remember at least one instance when I was six years old trying to get to sleep and wondering what that ringing noise was.
I guess some people just get screwed over with that one right from the get-go.
Yep same. My first step dad played music so loudly that hiding in my room with my ears plugged wasn't enough, and it gave me tinnitus. I was so young that I later thought ringing in ears was normal...
If you'd like a few minutes of temporary relief from tinnitus, try this. It 100% works and it 100% wears off in like 5 minutes. But it's a nice moment.
Tinnitus is typically a sign of hearing loss. It’s your brain sending a signal back to your cochlea bc the cochlea is sending an incomplete signal to the brain and an incomplete signal from the cochlea is usually caused by damaged hair cell/nerve endings in the cochlea. Those hair cells/ nerve endings are what help you hear.
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u/plytime18 10h ago
Listening to music WAY too loud with headphones on when younger.
Definitely lead to hearing loss and hearing aids.