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Has anyone here ever experienced a temporary threshold shift after getting tinnitus and as a result making it worse? I’m asking this, because 2 weeks ago at work I was checking out a delivery of steel platings with a coworker and he dropped a steel plate of about 25 pounds on another steel...

About 2 hours ago someone at work thought it was funny to try and startle me by smashing a clipboard on a desk about 2 feet from my right ear. I didn’t even really hear the sound, because I immediately got a full feeling in my ear and increased ringing. This went away after about 30 seconds and...

A few minutes ago I was in my living room and a very loud firework went off about 15 feet from my house. Not just a regular firecracker but one of those illegal “bombs”. Like this: (WATCH YOUR VOLUME!!!) Should I worry about hearing damage? These things could be around 150 to 160 dB. I have...

A week ago at work someone dropped a 5-feet rectangular steel tube onto a concrete floor. I was standing about 20 feet away and it made a very loud, metallic, reverberating bang on impact. Like someone hitting a hammer on a steel beam with full force. It was weird how I could feel the sound...

So, basically yesterday at work I was exposed to a VERY loud noise. I was going outside to smoke a cigarette and I knew they were testing a high pressure waterblasting machine outside, but I could hear the that the engineers weren’t actually running the machine and it was just idling. The door...

Recently I’ve been contemplating about changing jobs. Everyday at work I’m exposed to loud sudden noises such as hammers hitting metal, power tools being used, people dropping heavy boxes, the horn on the forklift, etc. I’ve never had tinnitus spikes from anything other than these sounds. In my...

6 days ago I got a case of fleeting T in my right ear. It was a lot louder then normal instances of fleeting T. It went down after a minute or so, but there was some leftover fleeting T which remained for a few hours. Ever since that moment my right ear feels full and it’s been popping a lot...

So, 2 days ago someone at work dropped a metal plate in a concrete floor from about 10 feet from where I was standing. It made a very loud metallic reverberating clang when it hit the floor and I was not wearing plugs. The plate was about 15 by 6 inches and maybe a tenth of an inch thick. How...

Today at work someone dropped a heavy metal plate on the floor about 10 feet from where I was standing and I'm scared to death it might have caused permanent damage. It must have been around 110 dB, maybe even more. My tinnitus has been acting strange since yesterday on top of that. I had a...

For some reason I set my alarm clock this morning and it went off this morning. Now my ears feel full and my tinnitus has gotten louder. The alarm went off for only 3 seconds, so I was wondering if this could have caused permanent damage. It couldn't have been more than 80 decibels right?

So my tinnitus has been present for 3 months now after a loud concert and I keep wondering every day if this is going to be haunting me for the rest of my life. Considering that a lot has changed since the onset, I wonder if my hearing/brain is recovering. I had several tinnitus sounds in the...

I have this weird thing whenever I'm in the shower I hear this high-pitched tone which I never experience otherwise, except whenever I'm in front of my computer. When I turn the shower off the tone immediately goes away. The tone is also there when I'm sitting at my computer, but it's not as...

Occasionally I get very short electric sounds in my ear. They mostly last for half a second or less. It's kind of hard to explain. It's like the sound of a gentle spark of electricity. Anybody else experience the same thing?

Today at work a door slammed about 2 feet away from me and I feel like my tinnitus has increased because of it. I measured the decibel level later on while wearing earplugs by slamming the door again and it was 96 dB. Am I stressing out and has this caused a spike in my tinnitus or has the...

Normally when I apply pressure to the side of my head my tinnitus increases, but once I release my hands from my head my tinnitus is gone for a few seconds. But when I'm having a spike I can't do this. No increase when applying pressure and also no relief when releasing. What is it that...

When I'm driving in my car I always wear earplugs. Do you think this is necessary or am I being overprotective?

I've noticed that my T is lower in the evening. When I get home from work it always catches my attention due to its loudness, but several hours later it settles down. Any explanations for this and are there more people with the same experience? In the morning it is the other way around. It's...

My T has been with me for 2 weeks now and the last 2 days I've noticed some changes. First of all the overall volume has decreased. At the moment I think it is about 70/80% of the volume it was when it all started. If I'm stressed the volume gets a bit higher, but I guess that's present in a lot...

Hello everyone. My name is Sven and I'm 30 years old. On the 4th of May I went to a metal gig and this evening has drastically changed my life. Afterwards when I got home and went to bed I had the sensation that a kettle was going off in my ears. I've never been exposed much to loud music in my...