I have extremely tender and sensitive ear canals. You know how you get those “in the ear” ear phones, and they have different sized inserts “for everyone’s comfort”? Well, even the smallest ones hurt my ears.
It has always been something that I have had to “deal with”, but I have been able to avoid the problem for a long time, since I got my awesomely amazing Bose around-the-ear noise canceling headphones. However, since getting lobes pierced last week, I haven’t been able to use my headphones, because they touch my ear lobes, and as such, I have fallen back on my in the ear phones. Ouch, ouch, ouch. I didn’t realize how much they hurt, because I have never had to use them for extended periods of time before.
I even tried using my friend’s amazingly nice Bose in the ear phones, but those hurt too!! I can’t be the only one out there with sensitive ear canals, so I wonder, if you have this problem, what ear phones are you using?? Let me know, so I can run out and get them today; because I can’t live without my music, and having to shove these devil’s swords in my ear is torture!!!
I use the Bose headphones with the soft removable buds. They are very comfortable:) Even those hurt you?
I know this post was not meant to be funny, but … it kind of is. “Tender ear canals?” Priceless!
Booboo, unfortunately, those hurt too. It just takes a little longer for them to start hurting.
Dr. Sparky, glad I could oblige!!! I think the idea of having sensitive ear canals is just silly, so I am glad that someone found it funny!
`Hmmm…I’m thinking you’re going to have a problem with any earphones. You should go retro and carry around a boombox on your shoulder!
Just a thought.
I have the same problem. A few minutes is about all I can take, and that’s if I can get the things to stay in my ears in the first place as they tend to fall out no matter how hard I push them in. I have to use headphones and even they drive me crazy after a while which is why my ipod doesn’t get much use.
kim, I would look awesome with a ghetto blaster on my shoulder, wouldn’t I!!?!
Simon, same here. If they aren’t hurting my ear, they are falling out. I can’t wait until my ears are healed so I can go back to my headphones!!!
I have JBuds Hi-Fi Noise-Reducing Ear Buds and they don’t hurt my tiny five-foot-tall-girl ears. Thomas has the same ones and I think Alyssa is getting them, too. They don’t hurt my ears at all.