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Yes - that was just as much of a problem for me as the actual tinnitus. The steroids helped get rid of that and the tinnitus followed. It felt like I was underwater all the time, and I had intermittent ear pain as well.

I would urge you to try the steroids - there shouldn’t be too many side effects since you’re only taking them for a week (I had no side effects whatsoever). I think Medrol was crucial to my recovery and have no idea how long it would have lasted otherwise.

I had similar issues and was diagnosed with ETD - have you taken oral steroids? They got rid of 80% of the inflammation and Flonase/Astelin/neti pot/time did the rest. The whole episode lasted about a month for me from start to finish.

This seems like a very extreme definition of average, and I don’t know how people are supposed to avoid above-average noise for days or months at a time without turning into a hermit - people eventually will need to go to the grocery store, for example.

For those of you who are looking in the future for help with your ETD - I was prescribed Astelin to take with Flonase every day, which seemed to get rid of most of the tinnitus (there may be some remaining but it is so quiet to be almost unnoticeable). The steroids eventually got rid of 80% of...

I would say that the Neti pot helped, with the caveat that I believe my ETD was caused by a sinus infection. I was also taking nasal steroids at the time as well as astelin, and I didn’t start the Neti pot until after a round of oral steroids that had gotten rid of 80% of the inflammation, so...

I’m 21 and have had tinnitus in my left ear for about three weeks now, starting roughly with the onset of a sinus infection. The tinnitus is a hiss sound, ranging in frequency from cicadas to radio static. Urgent care prescribed me an antibiotic after saying my eardrum was bulging - this...