Apple Airpods causing serious headache

I have been using Apple Airpods for a while (almost a year). But for past few weeks I have noticed a kind of pain on my right side of the face including top of my head. On an average 4-5 hours per day, I was using Airpod in my right ear. Slowly I reduced it to 1hr/day but the pain kept increasing. I started to have severe headache on those days I use Airpod. While sleeping I could hear some kind of noise (something like cricket insects sounds at night) in my right ear along with it I had severe headache as well. Consulted my ENT and he advised not to use it anymore. Now for the past 1 week I'm not using the Airpod and didn't have any headache or ear pain so far. Today I used it for few minutes and while using it I started to have pain in my ear and right top side of my head again. I still have slight headache on the right side. I'm sure this tiny gadget is very dangerous and it can cause serious damage. Apple must look in to this concern. I'm ready to go for any kind of test (if required) to prove this.

Posted on Dec 13, 2018 1:17 AM

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Dec 13, 2018 8:50 PM in response to hariraghav25

A colleague of mine has similar problem whenever use any kind ear devise: AirPods, ear buds, any that go into ear, due to eustachian dysfunction.


for him, he has to wear the kind of headphone that cover the ear without going in the ear.


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Dec 13, 2018 4:12 AM in response to hariraghav25

Have you tried using any other headphones instead of AirPods? I have had somewhat similar issue with wired, wireless headphones as well, If I had put them on for hours.... I moved to bigger headphones, the one over the head. Since then, I am not facing the issue. Give it a try.

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Dec 13, 2018 8:44 PM in response to hariraghav25

I'll recommend to give bigger headphones a try. The one without earbuds, when you are home. That helped me. Headache has direct relation with ears. I have ear wax problem, so even if I don't wear headphones, I get headaches specially in winters. Give it a try.

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