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Today, I got into my dad's car and he had the stereo up at full volume. As soon as I got in it blasted in my ear, and it took my a few seconds to turn the volume down because everything is touch screen in there. Now my ears are sore. Is there anything I should do to mitigate some of the...

Basically, my sister has this keychain that you pull when someone is kidnapping you. I didn't know what it was, so I tried to move it, and the loudest sound I'd ever heard in my life blared into my ears. I tried to turn it off but had no idea how. I think I was exposed to it for about 30 seconds...

So, I know a common opinion on this forum is to avoid earbuds, but after digging deeper, I've found a decent amount of people on this forum that still use them. I've been to 3 audiologists, and they all told me that if I use them at a reasonable volume I'll be fine. So basically, I got tinnitus...

Basically, my tinnitus started a year ago. For six months, I did everything to protect my ears, and by mid January, it had faded to static. Then, in April, I made a mistake. I performed in a dance show, and on the last night I forgot to bring earplugs. I just wasn’t thinking—I normally carried...

So basically, the situation is that I am scheduled to perform 2 songs in a Loud jazz band. I'm talking real big, real loud. Before, I would just sing my songs without earplugs and then put the plugs in after my songs were over, assuming 10 minutes of exposure wouldn't be too bad. Unfortunately...

Long story short, the volume in my car somehow got turned up to the max volume and blasted my ears. It was only a second but I’m worried. My parents won’t drive me to the ER (no car) and I’m leaving for Mexico tomorrow so even if I were able to get to the ER I wouldn’t be able to get the...

Okay, so here's the story. I'm a 20 year old girl (woman?). I developed tinnitus August of last summer for no apparent reason. I was sitting in my room during one of my sister's loud sleepovers, and decided to plug my ears to try to get some sleep. I put the earplugs in, and I heard it--a faint...

So, I was doing this improve group that involved a lot of yelling/loud singing, and I went to this loud activities fair. My tinnitus got slightly worse but I thought it was because of stress/lack of sleep/sickness/poor diet/too much caffeine. Well it turns out that my 33 dB earplugs weren’t...

So, I’ve been a piano player for years. Even though I’ve never seen anyone do this, I’ve been practicing with earplugs since my tinnitus started. But I notice that whenever I play, my tinnitus gradually goes up, even if I play for 15 minutes. And, sometimes it starts with a specific note. Like...

So. Two months ago I developed very faint tinnitus. It was not noise induced—no one knows where it came from. At first it was due to fluid in my ear but it remained even after the fluid drained. But as I worried about it more, it got louder and louder until it became something horribly...

So. I don’t have much time to write but here’s the gist. My tinnitus was calming down, but when I got to college, all of these unexpected noises/environments hit me. Now it’s twice as bad. Examples: fire alarms from people smoking weed in the dorm. Construction near my classes. The teacher in...

Hello. A month and a week ago I got high pitched tinnitus in one ear and low pitched tinnitus in another ear. Last night I went to sleep with white noise as usual. I was calm, because the problem seemed to be lessening. But when I woke up I heard a churning sound in my right ear, almost...

3 weeks ago I noticed ringing in my ears that gradually grew louder and higher pitched. At first I thought it was due to the fluid that was in my ears (I HATE loud music/other loud environments), but the issue remained even after the fluid had drained. I had never listened to music at loud...

I'm a nineteen year old girl and I'm leaving for college in a week (I thought this information might help somehow). So. Basically, my sister was having a sleepover, and I decided to put earplugs in to drown out the noise. When I put the earplugs in, I heard a faint ringing. Really quiet. But I...