What the F?? (Ears)

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I was on the bus today and this little kid kept letting out these extremely loud high-pitched squeals out of nowhere, which made my left ear make a weird buzzing noise. Then when I got home my boyfriend noticed that there was a tiny little bit of blood in my ear hole, when he was kissing my face. I put my finger in my ear and noticed there was. Also my ear was still hurting from the brat's shrieks.

Can this happen?? Can a loud noise literally cause one of your ears to bleed? My left ear is the sensitive ear, and is also 75% deaf (according to several hearing tests I've had). My right ear hears just fine and is far less sensitive.

highly unlikely, but if you are bleeding in your ear it might be time to see a doctor

I can get ear drums vibrating which is kind of painful if it can be described as pain. Others do not seem to get it and wonder why I was holding my ears. Was always extra suseptable when in school to kids messing about by shouting in my ears. Had burst eardrum as a kid as well.
It is odd though. School buzzers and bells used to set off my ear vibrations off. I thought it was normal. The suddenness of it was annoying. Fire alarms were more likely have me go stationary then move as my body can go into partial shutdown mode at times if I can't get myself to run. Run away from the sound or stop and shut down is my reaction. Walk did not work.

Also due to fear I could never leave my personal belongings in a classroom when the alarm went off. I had to always have them with me as a sense of security.

Hi Joe90!

Did you put a finger in your ear whilst on the bus to protect your hearing from the squealing or in attempt to alleviate your buzzing ear? If so, do you think you might have done so forcefully and/or in haste? Do you have long nails? If 'yes', 'yes' and 'yes' (are the answers to the preceding three questions); perhaps you might have unintentionally nicked yourself?

Just an idea!

HaVe A gReAt dAy!

Best wishes from Jim from Jimberry and the Couscous (small Youtuber)

Oh ok, sorry, as I said just an idea for which I would be grateful should another suggest it were I in similar circumstance. I tend to have very slow process and difficulty with contextualisation and seeing the 'bigger picture'.

Perhaps you should follow the advice of autisticelders (hello again autisticelders, good day to you also!), hear (here!) and consult a medical practitioner and not read the remainder of this post unless you are experiencing clinical boredom (I have no experience of boredom so I am unsure about that!)

ANECDOTAL INFORMATION FOLLOWS WHICH YOU CAN SAFELY IGNORE SHOULD YOU WISH. TAKE CARE!

I have a similar issue with my ears differing abilities Joe90, except that it is my right ear that does not hear as well as my left ear (higher frequencies are less discernible due to standing too close to a speaker at a concert as an adolescent and not having enough common sense and awareness to leave (or move elsewhere) once I was in pain!).

(I have phenomenal hearing regardless. I estimate three times as sensitive as most peoples' hearing from observations of how long it takes for others to adjust the volume of their speech if they are talking about me and moving towards me. I am currently 'homeless' as I can even overhear neighbours talking from within their neighbouring properties which has been confirmed by my neighbours after times of distress when I have shouted in overwhelm relevant responses to their discussions about me. Though you can find out more about that by reading the comments on my Youtube channel should you be interested.)

I developed tinnitus in said ear which I found has improved in frequency and severity slowly over time with less exposure to loud or persistent sound.

Purely anecdotal, not particularly relevant to your question (though to large degree I believe relevance is in the ear of the listener) though for some reason I thought you may be interested. I apologise if that is not the case! Take care. I hope your ear is better soon.

Best wishes,

Jim from Jimberry and the Couscous (small Youtuber.. hear hare here!)

For sounds, you need quite the acoustic trauma to cause a perforated or ruptured eardrum. Along with the sharp initial pain, there’ll be drainage of fluids (blood included), deafness, vertigo and loud ringing. They often heal on their own in a few weeks. The level of noise needed will be explosions or powerful firearms/similar indoors.

The eardrums seem quite resilient to noise. Something as innocuous as a sneeze or ear infection can break them, but you need a very high decibel level at the ear to do it (mostly unnatural things, but getting hit with lightning will do that one, and that'll be of no real concern compared to the cardiac arrest and burns). Holding your nose when you sneeze will increase the odds with that event, so I'd avoid doing that.

I know of two burst eardrums from very loud unnatural noise. I know of many cases of very loud or loud unnatural noise causing extensive damage beyond the eardrum, but they held. (I'm still waiting for Dill to clumsily trip down the stairs and break his crown because of the vestibular damage from very loud noise stuff that can make him fall down, even though he only had an inflamed right eardrum. I guess I'm good with automatically grabbing that stair rail and/or touching the wall; I just need one of those to maintain balance in darkness.)

Why not go to a doctor to get it checked out?