Why are my ears ringing?

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okay so this all started around 5 months ago when i went to a concert im pretty young so it was my first time going to a concert where i wasint in seats i was up really close and it was very loud, ever since than i have had ringing in my ears and very bad sensitivity so i went to the ear doctors and they told me it was tinnitus ( which was what i had expected) but they took a hearing test and they told me i have no hearing loss, is it still possible for me to have gotton it from the loud concert even if there isint any measured hearing loss involved and is it possible that i have hyperacusis as well because practically every sound hurts my ears?

by the way its probably not from culmative damage because prior to the concert i had not exposed my ears to such high volumes at least for that long of a time.
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Why do I hear sounds at a different pitch after I have listened to loud music?

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Last night I went to a music festival. It was great, and the music was very loud. I'm fully aware of tinnitus and how ears can be hypersensitive to certain frequencies especially after listening to loud sounds for even a short period of time.

However, as the night was coming to a close, I noticed something very strange going on with my hearing. I noticed that the sound I was perceiving sounded like a different pitch than if I plugged my ears and listened to the same thing... talk about weird. I'm home now, and ordinary sounds that I am familiar with (like here on the computer) sound like they are at a lower pitch, almost as if someone slowed down a recording (though only in pitch, not speed, of course).

As I mentioned, I'm very familiar with tinnitus and hyperacusis, but I've never seen or heard anything about anything like this before.

I was wondering if anyone might be able to explain and/or direct me to information on this very strange and unusual phenomenon.

Thanks!
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How do I cope with these feelings, if I can't even turn to the psych ward for help? ?

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I'm going through so much. No one cares or understands. They don't wanna hear how I feel.

I'm not even gonna commit suicide or kill myself. I'm just gonna stay home & stay in bed all day, every day. & starve until I die. I haven't been eating much, lately as it is. People, especially my family, hate me so much they don't want me to live. I'm not asking for pity or sympathy. I just need supportive, positive, & uplifting advice.

With my neurological & anxiety disorders, people keep trying to shove religion down my throat & telling me I'm going to hell when I die, since I can't control these. Tourette's, depression, anxiety, OCD. There u have it.

I'm 25 with a college degree & considered disabled. No vocational rehab counselors want to help me find a job. I'm DYING for work! I got student loans to pay off, & employers discriminate & laugh because of my facial tics.

It's pointless for me to live. I'm not gonna eat or drink anything. Not even water. Pointless to take my medicine if they don't help.

I'm about to cry right now. Holding it in. Don't want to talk to or be around anyone. I'm in excruciating mental, physical, & emotional pain. I get too many stomach & headaches. Never feel comfortable. Always weak, dizzy, & feeling like I'm about to pass out. Pointless to go to the Dr. or hospital if they try to turn my physical illness into mental, & try to call me a hypochondriac. I'm NOT! People always think Dr.'s diagnoses are always correct. Doctors diagnose incorrectly all the time. Why do you think they have so many medical malpractice lawsuits & wrongful deaths?

They always give me wrong medication & misdiagnose me in the psych ward, & I feel punished & trapped for 3 weeks there. Feels like some kind of detention. The way I'm feeling right now, I know I need to check myself in, but based on ALL past experiences, the hospital never benefited me. All it did was hurt me more. All they do is yell @ you, treat you like a child, pin you down & restrain you & put a cocktail of Haldol, Cogentin, & who knows what else, & throw you in the seclusion room & laugh & think it's funny. In my everyday life, & in the hospital, people get their KICKS out of triggering me off to have a Tourette's outburst, so they can laugh. It's not fair. I need help & don't know where to turn. I don't even have my family. I have sensitive ears (hyperacusis) & tinnitus & vertigo, & my brothers & sisters smack on their food LOUD, on purpose, just to trigger me off to have an anxiety attack, & they laugh hysterically, like they're watching a funny comedy show.

I give up on my life. I can't take suffering any longer.

I'd say it was pretty unlikely that you're going to get a complete solution on here.
you obviously have physical and psychological issues at the moment which must be excruciating.
The lines between the two often get blurred too with one exacerbating the other.

You seem to be pretty much at the end of your tether and things are in decline.
Any contact with individuals who could/should ease the situation(family/health workers) is making you more agitated and in turn less likely to seek help,guidance or reassurance.

I think you need to have a little think and work out what your main problems are and some starting points to sort them out.
I know some of these issues are hard to quantify bu write things down and see what small steps can help.
You may roll your eyes now but rest,sleep,knocking off stimulants and upping fresh air and exercise will help a good few.

I can't really comment on
vertigo or certain of your other conditions but I've been on Haldol and I know it's no party but I accept that at the time it had it's uses.
In my opinion it's a short term solution which I was kept on for far too long.

You seem to be in the same frame of mind that I was in when the fog cleared.
You are angry and indignant at the way you have been treated but it seems to be turning in on you.

You feel you are being victimised and feel as if you are inside with everyone else looking in and pointing at you.

You need to talk to someone who you can trust and will listen to you.

Take a pause ,are you being a little oversensitive in certain areas ?

You have listed about six different groups of people who seem to have it in for you.

More people than you think have wobbly patches in their mid-late twenties.

Get yourself active in any way you can.I don't know where you are but if you can't find work and want activity,get whatever benefits you can and do some volunteer work.
Even if it was delivering leaflets you'd meet people and make progress.
Start at the begining and take one step at a time .
Good luck.



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how do you treat over sensitive hearing?

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i am 13 and i am suffering from over sensitive hearing, i cry everyday because little noises bug me. i am a straight A student but i am failing history because i can't do my homework, there is too much noise in the house. i have asked my siblings and my aunt to stop making so much noise, i get annoyed at closing cubboards, closing the fridge, putting away dishes and when my brother plays hockey. i am so angry and frustrated all the time and i want it all to stop. please, if you have any information on this disease please tell me. by the way, the disease is formally called hyperacusis.
Hi Lindsey. I'm sorry I don't have an answer but I'd like to express my gratitude for your question. I have this problem too and have always associated it with my TMJ. Now I wonder if it has another cause. Hyperacusis.
Do you think ear plugs would help at least while you are trying to do your home work?
Sure hope you find a solution quickly.  (+ info)

sensitive to sound only when the attack time mostly hour after meal?

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The attack is when I have a headache (but I can feel it my head and forehead arteries) and makes me want to massage my head. It's usually start happened about 30-60 afer meal. In this moments I am very sensitive to any kind of sound include whenvneighbor clicking his car key remote, also when my wife talking, etc. The sensitive feeling which I think is nerve reaction is like jumping from the building from the hill in a dream (the feeling when in the air moment) mix together with the feeling after, leg falling sleep from wrong position and tingling feeling when tried to move it, not numb). Well this feeling is happen in my head and my spinal. I am thinking of many disease possibility such ischaemic heart disease, hyperacusis, hypoglycemia,kidney (renal artery stenosis or renovascular hypertension), early sign of multiple sclerosis, etc. i will have my blood work result in two weeks and will post the update, but I am posting this to find out if there anyone with the same experience?
It doesn't sound like multiple sclerosis, but more like a migraine triggered maybe by something in your diet?

Migraines can cause sound sensitivity and light-sensitivity.  (+ info)

collecting disability?

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My fieance has a rare disability called Hyperacusis. It affects his hearing, its the complete opposite of deaf. Womans voices bother him and he cant really go anywhere too quite or where there are a lot of woman beacuse of this disability. Because of this he cant get a job, dont get me wrong he has had some before but every time he had to quit because of the womans voices. We are moving in together soon and he wants to start collecting disability because he is making no income. How would he go around doing this? How long might it take for him to start getting this? Any help with this would be greatful because looking online its so hard to try and find out how to do this.
I have a friend with narcolepsy who has applied for disability, & her lawyer told her it could take 5 years or longer....  (+ info)

What's wrong with my ears? Why are they becoming more & more sensitive?

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I can't handle the sound of people chewing loudly & popping, clicking, & smacking their gum. Now, I can no longer handle hearing other people, as well as myself, type on the keyboard.

I know I have hyperacusis, & I'm easily prone to ear infection, but why is it getting worse? & this is with certain sounds. Music played in my ears from my mp3 player don't bother me at all. I was told that people with Asperger's have this problem, but I'm not sure if I'm an Aspie. When I was younger, I was suspected to have PDD-NOS, but some of these traits stuck with me. I come close to an anxiety breakdown when I hear painful noises.

33-dB earplugs aren't even effective. Sometimes I wish for COMPLETE silence & wish I can be deaf when I want to & hearing when I want to. Music is always pleasant to hear. But I need my silence in order to concentrate.
Your best bet is to see a doctor as soon as possible. It might be a serious condition, especially if it's getting worse.  (+ info)

Intense ear pressure and pain with damaged inner eardrums?

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I have lot of constant pain and pressure in my ears. I'm an audio engineer and I can't work on my music because of it, can't actually listen to ANYTHING because of the pressure. But when I went to a doctor before my hearing tested out fine, but he found scar tissue in my inner ear (I think it was the inner ear. He said it was from some trauma when I was young) Anyway, Hyperacusis, according to a site I found, doesn't necessarily imply damage to the ear drums. Right now the pressure/pain is constant and has built up to a high level, with some popping and clicking when I move my jaw. I just wondered if you had any thoughts for damaged ear drums? damaged ear drums don't heal themselves, right? I've just kind of assumed that I can't listen to music anymore, and if I'm careful to minimize my exposure to ALL SOUND. THEN, I'm hoping that it's possible that I'll have enough drop in pressure pain to be able to do social things like movies or just listening to someone talk? This isn't just sensitivity to sound or "fear of sounds" or anything like that. At some sites people said their ears healed in two months or so, and elswhere amazing results came from cleaning out nasal passages. I'm just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this. I'm kind of desperate and doctors are expensive. Also I'm just about to have my debut album up sale online and I CAN'T PUT THE FINAL TOUCHES ON IT!
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Do you have certain noises you find intolerable?

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If so, you could have a condition called Misophonia - literally “hatred of sound” it is a form of decreased sound tolerance.

It is believed to result from abnormally strong connections between the
autonomic and limbic systems in the brain, rather than over-activity in the auditory system itself.

Unlike hyperacusis, misophonia is specific for certain sounds. Little is known about the anatomical location of the physiological abnormality that causes such symptoms but it is most likely high central nervous system structures.


I'm trying to raise more awareness about this condition, because it's very common, but no one realises that it's actually a condition, and there is little to no research about it.

To someone with Misophonia, once you hone in on a certain sound it seems impossible to tolerate it, and you feel you have to either leave or find some way to block out the sound to avoid the anxiety and feelings of rage bought on by the sound.

Let me know your experiences.
I don't think you quite understand what is like, it's not just that you find it irritating or annoying, the feelings that come about by hearing certain sounds for people with Misophonia, they feel immense anger, anxiety and in more extreme cases, violent.

Not everyone feels like that.
You wrote "To someone with Misophonia, once you hone in on a certain sound it seems impossible to tolerate it, and you feel you have to either leave or find some way to block out the sound to avoid the anxiety and feelings of rage bought on by the sound."
Well, I think every normal person does this. Once you become aware of a sound and you concentrate on it, then it becomes annoying. I don't think there is anything strange about it.
It is like when the room is deathly silent and someone starts tapping their fingers. No one likes it. I don't think it means that you have a condition.  (+ info)

Can't stand any noises my parents make and it drives me crazy! Ugh!?

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I'm pretty convinced that I suffer from the condition called Hyperacusis. The noises I can't STAND are the tv from a different room (just my luck. my bedroom is the one right over it) and my parents talking (especially in the car. but also in rooms in the house that i can hear them.) This morning I was awoken at 5:30 because they started talking in their room. and I was kept up by them till midnight because of their choice of night-time activity. ... So what I do is I break down and I cry and I get really pissed and I hate it. This has always happened at home... except once when I was trying to sleep at camp and another girl was snoring. I cried. At camp. Good thing I didn't wake anyone up... Now I'm rambling. Apologies. Anyways, I can't sleep and I can't sit in my room and I'm going in to 8th grade and if I don't sleep and get the quiet I need it's gonna start impacting my grades. It's getting so hard that I'm considering going to live with my brother. What do I do about this? It's been going on for over a year and it hasn't gotten any better. Please help!
earplugs don't work. Before I've had to fall asleep to music and it makes it worse because I can't sleep peacefully. So ipods are also not an option.
Really, mental illness is in your head. Irritability is something you have to learn live with. Personally, my dad whistles christian music and it drives me up the wall. I am trying my best to ignore it, and the feeling i get when i restrain myself makes me feel like a better person. If you keep restraining your self and just go on as normal, then most likely you will break the mental habit of letting sounds get to you. I wish it were easy, but is anything anymore?  (+ info)

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