Loud ringing in my ears

[daniegirl6224]

I have a loud ringing in my ears. I am currently overstimulated/ in a meltdown. Do others experience this? Does anything help? It is driving me crazy, this is the first time this has happened to me.

 

[Judge]

I recall in my earlier years in times of intense stress, and indeed my ears would ring. However as I calmed down, the ringing would stop. If only your first time, I wouldn't spend much time worrying about it.

However...

I have tinnitus in my right ear and have for the last nine years. You learn to live with it, but you can never really get away from it. My doctor insists there are no "cures".

 

[Jumpinbare]

I was born with it. I thought everyone heard it until my late 20s when I mentioned "the normal background ringing" to an audiologist, and he told me there was no "normal" background ringing.
I have literally never heard silence.

 

[Outdated]

My only experience with that was only ever very short periods of a few minutes, and it would only be around a dozen instances spanned over 60 years. It was annoying though.

When I was living in the bush I discovered that when you experience true silence your brain will start to invent sounds as a sort of background noise. In the tropics there's usually very little wind and at night everything goes completely still, no sound at all. When going to sleep at night I often heard what sounded like radio stations but all of them at once so you couldn't distinguish anything coherent, and so quiet as to be right on the edge of hearing and I was never sure if I was hearing it or not.

 

[SusanLR]

Tinnitus.
I've had it to some degree since age 13. It does get worse with anxiety.
It is also getting louder and more constant with age. Nothing helps me except to have music or the tv sounds that can block it out.
In the quiet, it almost hurts to hear it.

 

[vergil96]

Yes, nothing other than rest and claming down helps. It also happens to me as a part of migraine aura, in which case also rest and painkillers and caffeine.

If it doesn't go away, though, the most common type of hearing loss is experienced as ear ringing.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

As suggested above, tinnitus can be something you are born with, as in a cortico-thalamic dysrhythmia. This is within the deep structures of the brain and it never goes away. Tinnitis can be something acute and can be as a result of high blood pressure or vascular changes within the brain near the auditory center. Migraine aura, being one potential cause, but could be many others. Again, this is within the brain, not the ears. Then there is the tinnitus that occurs after being exposed to intense sound. This is damage to the ears and the ringing may last for days.

If you've never had tinnitus, and it just started, I would have it checked out by a doctor.

 

[Angular Chap]

Yes, I experience ringing in 3 ways:

1. Being exposed to a constant loud noise, like a neighbour using a lawnmower. This usually results in a flat ringing noise for a while afterwards.

2. Stress, anxiety, overstimulation and burnout. Usually results in a ringing in time with my own heartbeat.

3. Migraines. These cause a constant, rhythmic, pulsing ringing that can vary up and own, louder and quieter, faster or slower. Sometimes caused by and linked to the above 2 things.

Once it starts, the only thing that helps is removing myself from the cause as best as I can, resting and focusing on other things until it passes. I just had to get better at trying to avoid the triggers.

 

[daniegirl6224]

Thanks so much you all thankfully the ringing stopped, it was really bad. Fingers crossed it doesn’t happen again. Sorry to those who suffer with this more often