5 Reasons Your Ears are Ringing

If you're dealing with a random ringing in your ears, you're going to know how fast that can become annoying. This is known as tinnitus, and it's a madding condition, but it's a common complaint. It can be chronic or it can be temporary, but what is it that's causing that ringing in the ears? Did you know that 15% of Americans deal with tinnitus every single year?

Learning about dealing with tinnitus effectively is going to help you get on the road to recovery. And while tinnitus is not curable, unfortunately, there are ways that you can deal with it. Before you deal with it though, you need to understand why your ears are bringing in the first place so that you can avoid that happening again. Let's take a look at 5 reasons you've got that ringing in your ears below.

You are dealing with hearing loss. Ironically, tinnitus can be a result of being hard of hearing. Most tinnitus is thought to be censoring neural, which means that it's due to a loss of the hearing at the cochlea, part of the inner ear. The brain produces an abnormal nerve signal to compensate for the missing input, so you end up with ringing.

Exposure to loud sounds. Whether you've been partying at a concert or you've been working with a lawn mower or gardening equipment that's very loud with no hearing protection, tinnitus can result because you've damaged your hearing. Exposure to loud sounds can cause that damage to the tiny hair cells in your inner ear. This will then leak random electrical impulses to your brain, causing tinnitus. Ideally, you should be using noise cancelling headphones or ear mufflers whenever you are working in loud environments, such as if you're on a construction site or you're working in a very loud bar.

Your ears are blocked. Earwax can be the reason behind tinnitus. This may not be a chronic condition because of wax, but temporary - thankfully, if you produce an excessive amount of wax, then speaking to your audiologist or hearing health professional can help you to learn how to keep your ears flushed without damaging them.

You are taking certain medications. There are some drugs that can cause or even worsen tinnitus so you need to be checking with your medical professionals to see whether the over the counter pain medicine that you're on is leaving you dealing with tinnitus. There are some antibiotics such as gentamicin, vancomycin, and tetracycline that can also cause tinnitus. Loop diuretics administered intravenously, such as Bumex, Lasix or Demodex can also do the same thing.

You are having dental issues. Something that most people don't connect is that teeth issues are often linked to the ears. The ringing in your ears can relate to a problem in your jaw or your teeth. TMJ disorders, for example of the temporomandibular joint, can cause popping or clicking sound when you open your mouth and that can cause juddering inside your ear.