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Thank you for the reply, @Suzerman. I have actually been lead to believe the same thing since this post. My condition has actually worsened since the onset to where even my wife's normal speaking voice and the rattling of a paper bag cause me discomfort and the "clogged" feeling. It took a nose...

Hello, All. I just want to thank everyone for the support shown by this forum. Truly glad that I can come on here and be among others that are suffering just the same, although I wish none of us had to deal with this. I really need a reason to keep going. Every time that I think I've struck...

Hello, everyone. I've been experiencing mild hyperacusis for two months now and had made good progress last week. I was almost back to normal, when I got in the car and found that the volume was turned waaaay up on a loud song for some reason. I was hit with about 85-90 dB for about half a...

Thank you everyone for your kind words. This has all made me feel bipolar. One moment, I'm crying hysterically, the next I'm throwing things in rage, then i feel better and optimistic. Thankfully my wife got me into the better and optimistic mood for the rest of the day. I don't want to speak...

Hello, all. I feel like I'm about to completely lose it. I've already had multiple breakdowns a day for the past week and don't know how much more I can take. I've had tinnitus since August from a loud movie that started in one ear. I got used to it until a sneeze from a co-worker made my...

I started out with one tone in my left ear that sounded like the back of an old TV. About a week later, an intermittent ringing sound started up in the left ear. It started to fade, then one of my co-workers let of a loud sneeze right next to me and it came back even worse. I took a muscle...

Hey, I know that this is an old post, but I feel like I'm having the same issue. I took Flexeril earlier this week and woke up with both ears feeling extremely clogged with dull hearing. I've got another layer of more annoying ringing as a result. Been hard to sleep since. :( Did yours ever get...

Just to add, it seems like I got another louder ringing in both ears two days after taking this that hasn't went away. Someone please help. :( Feeling suicidal again after getting used to it before.

Hey, everyone! I was wanting to see if anyone has had this issue with taking Cyclobenzaprine. I took a 5 mg dose Tuesday evening before bed. The next morning, I woke up with extreme ear fullness in both ears, almost like I had cotton stuck in them. The feeling went away as the medicine wore...

Hey, Michael. I just want to say that I appreciate your positivity and love reading your posts. I'm one of the unfortunate people that developed phonophobia and hyperacusis after first getting tinnitus, which I mostly attribute to posts that made me fear anything remotely loud. It got so bad...

Hello, All! I wanted to see if anyone could help me diagnose exactly what's going on with my right ear. About 6 weeks ago, I had a co-worker sneeze very loudly within about a meter of my right ear (he sits directly beside me). This was after an acoustic trauma to my left ear 2 weeks prior. At...

I know this is a little old, but I was prescribed Prednisone 2 days after my acoustic trauma. Started taking it on the morning of day 3 (about 60 hours after the initial trauma). The tinnitus appeared two days into the initial dose. I am unsure if the tinnitus was brought on by the Prednisone...

Hello, Jan64. Yes, I had a hearing test after both exposures at my ENT. Both were within the range that showed no detectable hearing loss, but I believe that I have with high-frequency or hidden hearing loss. Since my right ear trauma was within the 6 week period, that is what led me to try...

Just wanted to share my experience with HBOT. I found a clinic in the Northeast USA that was able to get me in quickly and for relatively cheap. My T is in both ears, the left from a noise exposure on 8/26, the right from a noise exposure on 9/19. My right ear also has some fullness and a little...

Hello, Everyone! Just wanted to say, I appreciate all of the support that this forum provides! I was stopping in with a quick question about habituation. My T stared a little over 5 weeks ago after what I believe was an acoustic trauma followed by extreme stress brought on by Prednisone. About...

Oh, yes, also want to mention, I also have bouts of bad muscular soreness in my jaw from clenching. I've been having bad stress headaches in the weeks leading up to onset as well with some bad neck tension. Trying to relax some more in hopes that it helps. :) Good luck with trying to fix your...

Thank you for your suggestions. I felt like I was making real progress until that setback with the sneeze (sounds kinda rediculous to put it like that). Trying to stay positive and focus on how I can appreciate my wife for sticking with me through all of this and trying to focus on success...

I've also had a tympanometry performed. The results from this were also normal. Do you know of any other ways to detect this hidden hearing loss that I could do at home? Just seems odd that a movie would do any additional damage.

Yes, I had thought that Eustachian tubes might be to blame, as well. My left ear seems to frequently get a clogged feeling and I can hear my own breathing through it. I tried a neti pot and seemed to get some results the first time. Not sure if it was placebo or not, but I plan to try a few more...

Hello, everyone! I joined these boards about a month ago and made an introductory post about a week after an event that I had believed to cause my tinnitus. I had initially believed my tinnitus to have been caused by an acoustic trauma. To sum it up, I went to see the movie Dunkirk in standard...

Anybody know of a way to find a good, cheap HBOT clinic in the US? I'm located in the South-Central US and wanted to look into it, but all of the clinics that I could find are connected to hospitals and charge $1000+ per session.

Thank you for the reassurance. Strange how these things work, huh? I spent a portion of my early 20's playing drums in a band and going to concerts, then a single scene in a loud movie does me in. I agree with those that believe that stress makes it worse. In fact, the worst parts of my T didn't...

Yep, that's the one. Wanted to enjoy the movie and probably would have had it not given me T. I still have the pressurised feeling in my right ear today. Went to an after hours clinic out of a gut feeling yesterday and started back on Prednisone again. I did start hearing some additional ringing...

Thank you for the concern. It was actually Dunkirk. I'm a fan of Nolan's work and went to a showing in a local AMC theater. I think the part that did me in was one of the scenes with the loud German fighter jets. Got an immediate pressurised feeling in my left ear, like it needed to pop. Didnt...

Hello, all. I got tinnitus a little over 3 weeks ago following acoustic trauma in my left ear. It's had its ups and downs, but is much easier to deal with than it was at first. I've actually been staring to take my life back and have been trying to take care of my left ear. So, today, I had...

I wish that I had seen something about this sooner. I saw Dunkirk in a non-IMAX theater on 8/26 and got an acoustic trauma in my left ear. Now, 11 days later, my ears are still ringing so loud it's been keeping me up at night. Even Prednisone didn't help me. There needs to be legislation against...

Wanted to share a quick update. I'm going to see an actual WANT on Thursday. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get in any earlier with any of the other local ENT's. I'm almost to my last dose of Prednisone, but my ear still feels clogged and I still get occasional pain. It's also worth...

Agreed. In just this week I've felt suicidal at times because of it. I've just had to keep reminding myself that it gets better and that (judging by the responses here) I won't feel this way forever.

Okay, thank you for all of your input. I've been panicking about mowing my lawn afterward. The sound of the mower was comforting for me at the time, but I didn't know the extent of what had happened then. Thankfully it was electric and not gas, so it wasn't as loud. I just wish that I hadn't...

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply to my post. That definitely means a lot. So far, since the ringing has started, I haven't noticed any changes in pitch or volume (other than sometimes being able to drown it out and other times not). I guess I'm panicking a little more remembering...

Thank you so much for your reply. I'll take a look through the success stories. I made the mistake if gravitating to the stories of doom and depression to start with and have been in a dark place. Thank you for the reassurance.

Good Morning/Afternoon, All. I was really debating posting here, but I'm getting to the end of my rope and everyone here seems kind and supportive, so here goes. Just for some background, I'm a 25 year old male and married (no kids). Last Saturday, my wife and I were laying around the house...