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I might add when I do the valsalva, it either fixes it, or makes it harder to hear. and then a pop will happen and then it goes back to being muffled hearing.

Soo.. My ear is muffled, and the sound is very dampened, if I plug my good ear near my fan, I can hear the fan, but I can't hear the clattering it makes, but once I unplug my good ear, I can hear it. Thing is... if I push down on the bad ear, the sound resumes and I can hear everything that my...

When your whole body jerks, it's called a hypnic jerk :D lots of people get it, it's not understood fully why it happens, but its fairly normal.

Exploding head syndrome (EHS) is a benign condition in which a person hears loud imagined noises (such as a bomb exploding, a gunshot, or a cymbal crash) or experiences an explosive feeling when falling asleep or waking up. It's like a hypnic jerk

I will, this is honestly annoying more than anything.. in other news my T has went down considerably, which is a bit strange considering.. lol

No not sick, is it in both of your ears? mine is just one.

When sitting, the pressure or muffledness isn't so bad, but when I stand it seems to be exasperated.. BUT, if I am standing up, and plug the ear that has no issue the ear with pressure seems to be better a bit. I had wax cleaned after I pushed against my ear, causing a block, in which they...

I drove with the window open once, right next to my bad ear, wasn't thinking. Spike for a week and went back down gradually.

That actually might just be exploding head syndrome, it is super common. It's either a door slamming, explosions ect.

Wow, that's so true dude. I don't have tinnitus in my dreams, but in my dreams I was fighting in a gun battle, literally stopped it and said "i need to put my plugs in" and then continued. Few other times I mentioned my tinnitus lol. It's actually quite amusing

yeah they just scrape the wax out with a very soft plastic instrument, was painless and had no sound.

It wasn't microsuction, just curettes, very gently and painless actually. the muffledness modulates a bit, but I can hear better now, and it seems to go away and come back a bit. My tinnitus is of course lower because I can hear clearly (If not for the muffledness)

He said there was a bit left over, but nothing on the drum or obscuring it, Though he said I may have liquid in the ears which is why he prescribed claritin, should I just try take that?

the issue is, it feels muffled and still feels clogged a tiny bit

Not sure what is causing this, as before the clog it didn't really feel clogged, but he removed enough that he was able to see my ear drum (was not able before) Chewing seems to modulate the sound a bit even opening my jaw the tiniest bit can do it. Pulling on my ear lobe also relieves some...

Depends if those were part of the risks of the surgery

Does yours get worse the longer you are up? Mine does, it's annoying but livable, if I was tld i'd have this for the rest of my life, i'd be.. happy? it's the not knowing if it will get worse that scares me

So since 2012 it's been like that? I find it only gets annoying if i've been up 20+ hours. it doesnt become a ring, but harsher and if i plug my ears after a while theres a low low ring only audible if ears are plugged.. So yours hasn't gotten worse since 2012?

Yeah, Maybe it's just wax now.. I got it after pushing a paper towel into my ear and hitting the drum a few times, it started off as this hollowish mechanic sound and turned into a deep ring after a day, and it slowly went down the entirety of last month. The hollow sound came back during my 4...

That is very low, and only a ring that I have to plug my ears to hear, after being up for a while. Are the chances of it getting worse lowered? I'm at month 2 and 4 days, and since its first onset it has gone from a 5/10 ring to a 1-2/10 white noise that used to be a 4/10 white noise. I am...

There's also this to keep in mind "For most people with unilateral tinnitus, if you try hard enough to hear the tinnitus in the non-affected ear, you'll eventually perceive some very slight tinnitus in that side. This is normal and is entirely driven by the way that our auditory pathways work -...

Actually I just talked to an audiologist, and he says that centralization isn't a very sound argument, he said that it doesn't mean your tinnitus is permanent, and that there isn't much research into it being actually valid. Interesting..

And do I have a lower chance of it happening, if the tinnitus is more of a white noise, and very low. I'm at month 2, and someone told me, at month 3 is when centralization starts to happen, is this true?

Depends how loud, with ear buds I wouldn't recommend it, put it very low and if it's without headphones and just speakers it should be fine my dude.

It was but, that resolved, even when he said he couldn't see my drum it wasnt until after he put it in I couldn't hear that well, I think he pushed wax in and covered it, but now the fullness isn't there and I can hear perfectly fine.

Mine was a medium ringing for the first month of having it, and now its more of a hiss/white noise, not sure what significance that is, but a doctor recently pushed wax further into my ear (can't really feel it when I press around my ear anymore after using a rubber syringe and carbamide) So not...

Well when you see that the creator of this forum himself got T from syringing it is quite scary.

I can't believe it won't worsen it, I had it done for 3 seconds in my non T ear, and it echoed for a week and reacted to every sound, so obviously I am a bit terrified of worsening my already not so bad T, it's only been 2 months since I got it, so i have maybe a month before I can say it's here...

Went to doctors and ears didn't feel plugged for quite some time, he looks inside and it feels like he pushed wax back inside, and it was plugged, said he couldn't see ear drum and it was all soft wax. The increase didn't happen then, Drove home with the window open and it was quite loud and...

He said it's all soft wax, I may just let it go on its own to see if it pushes itself out, though my ear is blocked and its making my T a bit more noticeable i'd imagine also, do you think using carbomide peroxide and a bulb syringe gently, daily will alleviate it eventually? because it only...

how deep would you say the earwax I have is, would it eventually come out on its own or do I need irrigation?

Anyone?

So my ear didn't feel full or anything and when I went to the doctor, he pushed the thing that allows him to look inside my ear in it, and said that it was all clogged with soft wax and he couldn't see my ear drum, after that it was clogged a bit, and my .2 sound has turned into a 3. When I...

Ask your doctor why he thinks giving you ototoxic ear spray is a good idea :)

Yeah I can't seem to edit it, hopefully they read down. I am new to tinnitus so as well, so forgive me.

Yeah thats true, My ENT had a full office at 3 PM, around 20 people and the lady said everyone would be done by 4:30, as you can imagine, doing permanent damage to my ears was well worth it to him if it made him some cash. I'd edit my post but I can't seem to be able to. Though I did hear...

This forum has a lot of people who have had Tinnitus for MANY years, decades even, and most of them are the 1 percent where it is unbearable, yes tinnitus is a very big issue and 1 percent of those who have it, have it extremely bad. You will read about that here, you will read posts about...

Even for those large dark chunks of wax that become hardened? Seems as though you'd still need to use those super low pressure rubber squirters to rinse it out

I've read a story recently, an olympic athlete would get a syringing done almost every other week since a young age, til she was in her 30s or so, and not a single problem until a nurse did it who was inexperienced, which leads me to believe the danger only comes from a doctor putting too much...

Yeah just gotta be careful, i'm in the same boat, mines progressively going down, sometimes it gets bad, just stay positive, remember a lot of stories on here are from people with the worst case scenarios that have a 10/10 always.

Has it gone back down to the tone you had before the scream?

Yeah and right now, thats my biggest fear, I don't even imagine i'd consider mine moderate, at first the tone was pretty loud and constant, but I no longer hear the tone, unless of course i plug my ears in the shower, and even now that tone doesn't happen anymore. But the fact that even though...

Yeah I see a lot of people here who are freaking it, and while I do not know how bad their T is, they don't seem to be able to calm down which is sad to me, I of course am new to it, and still clinging to the hope that it will go away (However detremental that is to me habituating) so while I am...

Lot's of doom and gloom here, and I know my tinnitus is not even to a level I'd consider moderate, maybe acute now, but I know this might help some of you, to see an every day guy and his dealings with it, and what helps him.

I wonder what it is then, because when my ear is facing my computer it definitely has an effect.

I think I may have some form of hyper acusis, I am sitting to the right of my computer, if I tilt my head, it's almost as if I can hear an electrical sound when my ear is facing it, strange.

If it's only been three months shouldn't he be protecting his hearing regardless, the chances of it going down like mine are still there maybe, i've had mine for around 43 days and it has been going down every day now.

I do have a question, since mine is relatively new, can I go to bars that are 75 DB? I am curious if (Mine is still unknown) you have hearing damage, does your tolerance lessen? IE 80 DB is what causes slight damage, would it then turn to 60 or 70 for someone with T?

The only thing that freaks me out is fleeting tinnitus, I am always afraid that THAT is the new tone, that makes my damn stomach drop lol

For now I think I will not be attending anything loud, as mine lessens every day, so I think in my case it's good to be a bit paranoid, especially with the chances of it going away, since it's so new and seems to be lessening. Though I think if it's here for good, and since its already low I...

Probably, I wonder if somehow that is the cause, I doubt it though.

and on my right side, (affected ear side) near my side burns it's sore, only noticeable when straining on the toilet (gross I know) Could this mean anything? I don't know if it will have been the cause of my T because, my T happened while I was awake, seemingly randomly after poking around in...

headphones in general, or headphones too loud?

Was yours a ringing in the beginning? Mine was and it was p/loud , not anymore though sometimes it becomes a very low pitch ring. Has yours gotten better or worse? I feel as though white noise would be easier to deal with

I wonder if your T is to a point where it no longer rings, is it possible to habituate it completely out of your mind.

Ah.. Honestly' I don't even think I belong here, It's my first month and 17 days, and I don't even have a ringing anymore, more so a white noise.. The reason I am here still is because the fear of it getting worse, the hope of it going away is still there, but also because my unaffected ear...

Do you know why yours got worse, or did it just happen?

Mine are carbomide peroxide 6.5 percent, is that bad? Also do I have to flush it out with this rubber water shooter or do I leave it in?

i know, and I feel bad complaining even though mine isn't as bad, what do you mean by acute phase? I still have hope it may go away givin how much it has gone down, before if I stayed up this long that 2/10 would be a 5/10.. Also I believe you are the one who made this site, and got it from...

Mine i'd rate a 2/10.. The people who have it really bad I cannot even imagine.. I hope mine never gets that loud.. I see people write about it all the time, how it was manageable but then it went nuts, I hope my 2/10 doesnt go to a 7/10.. that's what scares me, thats where my anxiety comes...