mild hearing loss just at 31 yrs

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hi members

Lately i realized that i am just 31 yrs started to experience mild hearing loss ... means sometimes need people to repeat conversation more than once ... is it normal for a person age at this young to experience mild hearing loss? also experience ringing in ears after using earphone/headphones at moderate high volume ...

advice and opinions welcomed ...

thx
 
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There could be a wide range of causes for such loss, whether temporary or permanent. Have you consulted a professional audiologist? Their findings and advice would be better than the suppositions found on any chat forums
 
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dannyjmf said:
...also experience ringing in ears after using earphone/headphones at moderate high volume ...
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And there is your most likely answer. Unfortunately, many, many millions of people have damaged their hearing using headphones and portable music players. This was discovered a few years after Sony invented the modern light-weight, over-the-ear, headphones in the early 1980s. 🙁

The very first thing you should do is to immediately stop using headphones - they are probably causing even more damage to your ears every time you use them, since you have acquired the bad habit of listening at damagingly loud levels.

The second thing to do, as Chrisb says, is to consult an audiologist. You only have one pair of ears to last you a lifetime. Having hearing is very important to the quality of your life, so don't hesitate, find a properly qualified professional to advise and treat you.

Good luck, and I hope you get good news from the audiologist!

-Gnobuddy
 
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same thing here: after temporarely loosing hearing completely form one ear listening to headphones, and going to the hospital, i now have a very sensitive left ear which and accuphens.

my advice: try to listen less frequently to music, and when you do, put the level at the lowest you can, and try not to abuse from the frequencies that you got damage from(equalize your music differently,etc).

Works for me. I'm 34
 
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TheGimp said:
Ringing in your ears after listening to loud music or any loud sound (whether you use earphones or not) is an indication you have damaged your hearing.
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Absolutely true.

The problem with headphones is that they allow you to achieve these damagingly loud sound pressure levels anywhere, at any time of the day, so you can very quickly cause permanent damage to your hearing.

To achieve equally damaging SPLs without headphones, you have to go to a live concert by The Who or some other equally irresponsible group, or at the least, to your local excessively loud dance club. This isn't something you can do for ten hours a day, every day, so in the long run, it typically causes less hearing damage.

This problem was discovered within a year or two of Sony's release of the original Walkman in the early 1980s. The BBC routinely administered hearing tests to all applicants for studio jobs, and within a year or so of the Sony Walkman's arrival, BBC studio officials were shocked to find a substantial percentage of twenty-something job applicants with severe hearing loss in one or both ears - a phenomenon nobody had ever seen before.

It took some time to identify the cause, but on investigation, the common factor between all the hearing-damaged youngsters turned out to be prolonged and loud use of their Sony Walkman.

Now, in the era of the ubiquitous cellphone, with the vast majority of young people now using earbuds for virtually all of their music listening, the problem is even more severe than it was in the 1980s. But public awareness of the problem is very low, and many young people are severely and permanently damaging their hearing before they reach their thirties. 🙁

-Gnobuddy
 
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You should ask these questions of an ENT physician or audiologist, not the diyAudio forum. Take it from a guy who has a moderately severe hearing loss and is dependent on hearing aids, ditch the headphones or dial the volume down unless you want to spend the 2nd half of your life not hearing much at all.
 
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If the preponderance of the music files you listen to on your earphones are MP3, I’d dare add that the highly compressed dynamic range is yet another contributing factor. The brain might be able to “ reconstruct” some of that, subjectively, but that’d only be after the cilia has been damaged, and as far as I know, they don’t grow back.
 
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pidesd said:
...i now have a very sensitive left ear which and accuphens.
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"acouphènes" is tinnitus, courtesy of Google Translate.

Tinnitus is a very unpleasant consequence of hearing damage: you hear a sound inside your ear(s) even when there is no actual sound outside. This is a result of damage to the delicate nerves in the ear canal.

The sound you hear may be ringing, whistling, hissing, or sound like rushing water / white noise. Depending on the amount of nerve damage, it may be a fairly quiet background noise, or it may be deafeningly loud and never give you a moment's peace. 🙁

Once you have tinnitus, you can never experience silence ever again, no matter where you go, or what you do. It's a pretty miserable life-long punishment for having been unwise enough to damage your hearing - it feels like the sort of thing one of the malevolent ancient Greek Gods would have done.

I have some tinnitus in my left ear, courtesy of a very loud muscle-car I owned for a number of years during my twenties. I never had enough money to replace the mufflers the previous owner had ripped open for maximum noise-making ability. 😱

-Gnobuddy
 
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Hi Danny,

You mentioned having trouble actually hearing or understanding what has been spoken and not just the tinnitus - there is a technical term to describe the loss of perception but the colloquial term is 'Cocktail Party Syndrome' (CPS) where you have trouble understanding someone talking to you with some other background sound going on - it's quite different to tinnitus (but still very annoying indeed!)

Hearing loss and tinnitus has/have many varied origins - diet, stress, lack of sleep, biologicals, and naturally, too much loud noise, or music. It's generally not just one thing alone

I've had this problem for some years and found that using a technique developed by a Dr Tomatis about 60 years ago would get rid of it all for some years at a time - out here in Oz, it's called Tomatis Sound Therapy, and a similar service is available around the world and particularly in France and Belgium, not sure why.

For some reason, it's not widely promoted for sufferers of tinnitus, etc but other's problems - you can usually track it down via 'The Mozart Effect' etc

I hope this may be useful - I've been free of all my tinnitus, CPS and the dreaded Meniere's for some years now and I still listen to music a lot via the headphones, but of a very high quality of reproduction - it makes all the difference, IMO.
 
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