Ear ringing

[Jessicaleanne1992]

My ear has been ringing for like 20 minites and i freaking out im scared it wont ever go away. Idk what caused it or how to fix it. What do i do? Help please

[onebreathatatime]

My ear has been ringing for like 20 minites and i freaking out im scared it wont ever go away. Idk what caused it or how to fix it. What do i do? Help please

Do you still have it? I get it bad.... Sometimes it's quick sometimes it lingers. Very frustrating and unnerving, have you gone to the drs about it?

[Jessicaleanne1992]

@Onebreathatatime
thanks for your reply, I took ativan and hot bath and went to sleep. It went away in my right ear. Now its back faintly in my left. Idk what to do. I have drs appointment thursday.

[alfred24]

Have you taken any Advil or aspirin recently? It can also be caused by too much sodium I think. Can even be caused by too much ear wax build up. I have a ringing in my left year. I've had it for about 3 yrs now. But that's because I listened to too much loud music.

[Jessicaleanne1992]

@alfred

That sounds terrible?! How do you deal with it?

[raggamuffin]

Could be ear wax. Or, as with everyone if the room you're in is dead quiet all you will hear is ringing. If you allow this to become a fear and worry then you'll fixate on it and probably hear it even when there's other noises around you.

It's mind over matter. The more worry and fear you bestow a symptom the longer it'll last and the more intense it'll feel.

Ed

[alfred24]

@alfred

That sounds terrible?! How do you deal with it?

Well surprisingly it's easy to deal with now. You should've seen me the first day it happened. I couldn't understand anything anyone was saying. It scared me pretty bad. But now the ringing is almost unnoticeable. I can always hear it but usually its not loud enough to distract me. Sometimes it gets louder but for a few seconds and it dies down again. I don't notice it much anymore

[Jessicaleanne1992]

Thanks for all your replies everyone

[CandyMan28]

My ears ring all the time, sometimes worse than others. Some medications including OTC can cause this, even aspirin. It is not anything serious. I have been to the Dr. over mine, and He said that I could go to an audiologist and see if hearing aids would overcome the ringing. I thought seriously, that is the dumbest advice I could imagine. I hear just fine.

Anyway, what I am trying to say is you are fine and it will pass, and even if it doesn't it is still extremely unlikely it is anything other than your body actin normally.

[Dahila]

tinnitus, it happens to a lot of people and unfortunately it will be connected to future hearing loss. I got it like for ten years before I start to hear worse. It took me another 5 years of denial, before I decided to get the hearing aids. When I have them in they are masking the noises, as soon as I take them out the lovely sound is back. I programmed myself to ignore the noise. It comes and it goes. Hopefully in your situation it will leave you alone :)

[ParanoidPenny]

I have to sleep with a fan on just to make noise. If it is completely silent all I hear is a loud roaring/ringing. It's horrible. I fly for a living so I contribute it partly to that and to my anxiety since I focus on it too much.