why is it after i wear ear plugs my tinnitus gets worse?
ok so i have tinnitus from ear infection and i never expose myself to loud noise without ear plugs
i have just got a new motorbike and noticed it is quite loud anyway the first day i went out and wore ear plugs my tinnitus got worse. it wore off after 2 days. then today i went out and didnt wear them suprise suprise no increase or anything. why do ear plugs do this to my ears? my moto wud be about 85 dbs of sound when revved.
Tags: dbs, ear infection, ear plugs, ears, loud noise, moto, motorbike, tinnitus
February 3rd, 2010 at 1:46 pm
When you wear ear plugs, you end up hearing tinnitus more clearly because there is less background noise. Your attention can latch onto that frequency when you are consciously trying to avoid some other sounds and you are able to hear the tinnitus clearer (like when wearing earplugs and riding a motorcycle). When you rode without earplugs, you were probably worrying a lot less about your ears and your attention didn’t focus on the sound as much. Tinnitus rarely goes away and most people have a certain level of it which accumulates over time. Certain things like ear infections and metabolic disturbances can accelerate the "volume" of the tinnitus during the disease course.