Headaches: Listening to Music or Watching TV
 

Hi, I'm hoping somebody can help me? Recently in the last couple of years, if the volume is too load watching TV or listening to music in my car, I start to get a headache coming on within minutes and I have to turn down the volume. If I don't lower the volume after maybe an hour, I will have a pounding headache for over 24 hours. It’s even worse if I listen to music that’s been burned to a CD disk from my PC. However, oddly enough, if I go to a live concert I don't get a headache.

Thanks, Scott

Hi Scott

Welcome to NeuroTalk :).

This is just a guess but maybe your headaches arise from sound pressure effects.

If you listen to music in a confined space (your car, from a CD possibly using headphones, etc) the sound pressure will be greater than when you listen to music in an open space like a live concert.

Best wishes.

Thanks for responding. The TV volume is no higher than 12, if I listen to it over 14 for a while, then I can feel a headache coming on.

So what I'm asking is that I shouldn't have any concerns when it comes to the brain?