Since everybody was so helpful with my last questions, I have one more.

Lately I find that after recording sessions (which many times go late into the wee hours) my hearing feels ... compressed, is the best way I can describe it. Like everything is far away, or somebody put latex over my ears. I'll wake up the next morning with the same problem and it can last a couple of days.

Please don't tell me to turn down because when this first started happening I freaked and now I am very cautious about the volume levels. When in the recording stage I keep it ridiculously low and only turn it up when I'm mixing. Even then I don't let it get excessive.

Of course, when I am performing it doesn't help matters with all the monitors and such.
I am willing to bet that this is a common problem so what do you guys do?