New to Here Yet Not New to Tinnitus

Greetings to the Forum and thanks for the site. I do have some questions yet I can ask them later.

I started getting this ringing just over five years ago it really got bad after took vicodin for a bad back. Since then it keeps getting louder and louder. Down side is I jumped over to filming. I mostly did the audio when filming and video editing in post. Can't do that as well as I did. Weird thing is I took care of my ears over the years using ear plugs and headphones. What did me in was an iPod.

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Hi,

A famous musician here in Belgium (famous in Belgium, that is… ) who also suffers from tinnitus, once said: "headphones are weapons of mass destruction". And they are to your hair cells.
You think the level is acceptable, but the music is so close to your ears, that you don't even realise when you're going over the edge.

 

Yeah many of the headphones out there can do some real damage to ones ear. To my error I was using Noise Cancellation earbuds. They worked so good yet I never thought about the consequences.

 

Me too I ran marathons cranking loud music and now I have this dreaded T ...wish I could go back in time I would of done things differently

 

Yeah, I wore earplugs to ALL concerts I went to - I'm a huge death & progressive metal fan and those concerts get loud. I almost never had tinnitus after the concerts... in fact, the only times I can remember having a ringing after was my 2nd Opeth concert about 8 or 9 years ago, and I was in such a good mood it bothered me 0% and went away forever after going to sleep.

8 years later I'm watching a TV show on my computer with my over the ear headphones and I have the volume too high... after that, EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Can't be too careful I guess.