Is it safe to listen to music on my stereo? I have tinnitus?
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 at
2:01 am
I have tinnitus from listening to loud music through headphones for years. I’ve stopped listening on the headphones, but I was wondering, if I listen to music a couple hours a day on my stereo (with the sound at regular volume), will I irritate my tinnitus or lose my hearing?
I also wanted to mention that I have no hearing loss yet, only tinnitus.
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Irritate tinnitus – yes. Lose your hearing – no (qualified). Here’s the qualifier: You said yourself, "I have no hearing loss YET (emphasis added)." I am married to a sweet, 35 y.o. man who is hard-of hearing because he listened "to loud music through headphones for years" just like you. Age he stopped listening that way: 22. Age he started losing his hearing: 26. Listening to your stereo at a ‘normal’ volume without headphones is not likely to cause any additional hearing loss that you are not already ‘headed for’, so to speak. Who knows, you may get lucky and keep your hearing. I hope you do. (p.s. My DH had tinnitus before he lost any hearing…and still has it.)
Hi,
I used to serious tinnitus myself. Here’s a good site I found that really helped. It gave me about my condition that I don’t know before, best personalized treatment and showed me what I was doing wrong before.
http://www.tinnitusremedies.info
Wish you luck.