Acoustic Trauma: Loud Concert Stabbed My Ear

#31
1000 said:
@Michael Leigh

Hyperacusis patients also experience sound fatique. At the end of a day their ears are tired and less tolerant of noise. Almost all hyperacusis patients experience a symptom commonly referred to as fullness in the ears. It is a feeling where the patient feels pressure in the ear or the sensation that someone is actually pressing on their eardrum. Other patients feel pain or burning in the ears.
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Everything mentioned in the above post is typical symptoms of hyperacusis. I had a very severe form of it 22 years ago when I first got tinnitus, due to noise trauma caused by listening to music through headphones at too high volume without realizing it. For over 6 months my head felt completely numb and everything I heard sounded as if my head was under water. When in conversation with anyone I had to ask them to please lower their voice as my ears hurt.

As I have previously mentioned, you should try and get another referral to ENT for further tests and if possible see a Hearing Therapist/Audiologist that specialises in the treatment and management of tinnitus and hyperacusis.

Best of luck
Michael
 
#33
Michael Leigh said:
Everything mentioned in the above post is typical symptoms of hyperacusis. I had a very severe form of it 22 years ago when I first got tinnitus, due to noise trauma caused by listening to music through headphones at too high volume without realizing it. For over 6 months my head felt completely numb and everything I heard sounded as if my head was under water. When in conversation with anyone I had to ask them to please lower their voice as my ears hurt.

As I have previously mentioned, you should try and get another referral to ENT for further tests and if possible see a Hearing Therapist/Audiologist that specialises in the treatment and management of tinnitus and hyperacusis.

Best of luck
Michael
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Your trauma wasn't that severe as mine, I was in a loud concert.

Already went to more than 4 ENTs. MRI, CT Scan normal. No infection.
 
#37
1000 said:
The t it's all over screaming.

The pain burning somedays gets worst. This morning was better than now, it feels like a lighter burning inside my ear.
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Join the research team. Have hope that we can find a solution. Ask God to show us the absolute cure. Maybe He put us here to bring this into the world.
 
#38
When I swallow don't feel more pain but the ear feels like stuffy. I can crack hear a crack sound without swallowing.
 
#39
1000 said:
Your trauma wasn't that severe as mine, I was in a loud concert.

Already went to more than 4 ENTs. MRI, CT Scan normal. No infection.
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With respect @1000 you have no way of knowing how severe my hyperacusis or tinnitus was and is. It is totally wrong of you to say that my noise trauma wasn't as severe as yours. Does your tinnitus vary from: complete silence, mild, moderate, severe and reach extreme severe levels? Do you take clonazepam to help reduce your tinnitus severity? Well I do. According to my ENT consultant and Hearing therapist, I have a rare form of tinnitus because they do not see many patients like me.

This is not about one-upmanship. I thought you came to this forum for help. You were advised by @Contrast to seek my advice. Since you know so much having had tinnitus for about 1 year, I think it's best you take all your knowledge and abundance of experience and get along with your tinnitus and hyperacusis all by yourself. I think you will do just fine.:)

I wish you well and goodbye
Michael
 
#40
Michael Leigh said:
With respect @1000 you have no way of knowing how severe my hyperacusis or tinnitus was and is. It is totally wrong of you to say that my noise trauma wasn't as severe as yours. Does your tinnitus vary from: complete silence, mild, moderate, severe and reach extreme severe levels? Do you take clonazepam to help reduce your tinnitus severity? Well I do. According to my ENT consultant and Hearing therapist, I have a rare form of tinnitus because they do not see many patients like me.

This is not about one-upmanship. I thought you came to this forum for help. You were advised by @Contrast to seek my advice. Since you know so much having had tinnitus for about 1 year, I think it's best you take all your knowledge and abundance of experience and get along with your tinnitus and hyperacusis all by yourself. I think you will do just fine.:)

I wish you well and goodbye
Michael
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Sorry @Michael Leigh I do apologized I didn't meant the way you took it or I didn't expressed myself properly. God Bless You. Then again sorry.

I have a very loud t,the ear feels very full and then the pain - discomfort.
 
#41
Hope God can heal all of us at the same time, I pray now for a treatment to cure all of us soon. I can't stand the t it's all over my head, cant mask it. In the name of Jesus, God please help us, we need healing in our ears and in our hearts.
 
#42
Michael Leigh said:
With respect @1000 you have no way of knowing how severe my hyperacusis or tinnitus was and is. It is totally wrong of you to say that my noise trauma wasn't as severe as yours. Does your tinnitus vary from: complete silence, mild, moderate, severe and reach extreme severe levels? Do you take clonazepam to help reduce your tinnitus severity? Well I do. According to my ENT consultant and Hearing therapist, I have a rare form of tinnitus because they do not see many patients like me.

This is not about one-upmanship. I thought you came to this forum for help. You were advised by @Contrast to seek my advice. Since you know so much having had tinnitus for about 1 year, I think it's best you take all your knowledge and abundance of experience and get along with your tinnitus and hyperacusis all by yourself. I think you will do just fine.:)

I wish you well and goodbye
Michael
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Can I recover from a second acoustic trauma? Ever since I done that loud ear test in January things have been bleak. My T used to be mild and It bothered me only when I was in silence or when I looked for it. Is it possible to go back to this level or has the train passed?
 
#43
1000 said:
Sorry @Michael Leigh I do apologized I didn't meant the way you took it or I didn't expressed myself properly. God Bless You. Then again sorry.
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I accept your apology @1000 and want to make few things clear. I wasn't upset by your comments and certainly not over something so trivial. However, my time is important to me and I'd rather not waste it on someone that knows it all. Since you have said this wasn't your intention then I will let this matter pass. Tinnitus and hyperacusis are very complex and each person that experiences them will be different. No-one can know what another person is experiencing because there are many things that affect a person that has tinnitus, hyperacusis or both. Their lifestyle, personality. Whether they are a positive or negative person can affect the way they cope with these conditions considerably.

Michael
 
#44
dpdx said:
Can I recover from a second acoustic trauma? Ever since I done that loud ear test in January things have been bleak. My T used to be mild and It bothered me only when I was in silence or when I looked for it. Is it possible to go back to this level or has the train passed?
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I had a second acoustic trauma and recovered although it took 4 years to do so. As I've suggested to you many times @dpdx, I believe it is your negative outlook on life and tinnitus that is making it difficult for you to recover. I believe counselling with a Hearing Therapist or Audiologist that specialises in tinnitus and hyperacusis management, would help you to look at life and tinnitus differently.

Michael
 
#46
Michael Leigh said:
I had a second acoustic trauma and recovered although it took 4 years to do so. As I've suggested to you many times @dpdx, I believe it is your negative outlook on life and tinnitus that is making it difficult for you to recover. I believe counselling with a Hearing Therapist or Audiologist that specialises in tinnitus and hyperacusis management, would help you to look at life and tinnitus differently.

Michael
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But can it go back to mild? I dont know TRT is way too expensive around 5k and I cant afford that. I been out of work since March. My T is a 7-8/10 and I have hyperacusis on both ears. I will be going to an audiologist again soon, last time I went in February I had a huge hearing drop. One thing I cant understand is how can a ear test of 110db for 3 minutes cause more damage.

Michael Leigh, I really want to move on believe me. I want to have a job and fall in love, buy a house, get a car, travel, etc. My T is just very loud to handle, it is the same volume as a person's voice. It makes it hard to hear what people are saying. I been 8 months with T and H from the second acoustic trauma and I seen 0 improvement. What is strange is that on my first acoustic trauma Sep 23, 2017 I noticed improvement (huge) in 2-3 weeks. Tinnitus faded to a level where I was just annoyed by it, but I was able to function, this however is another ballpark altogether. I dont want to be nasty but I believe that the time T can fade is 1-8 months, after that it becomes very hard to do so. I call this the golden time period of Tinnitus as it can reduce to a level where its tolerable. I am struggling very much now more so than last year. I sleep 4 hours max and sometimes dont sleep at all. My Audiologist told me there is no way I have an acoustic trauma since I have T on left ear.
 
#47
dpdx said:
But can it go back to mild? I dont know TRT is way too expensive around 5k and I cant afford that. I been out of work since March. My T is a 7-8/10 and I have hyperacusis on both ears. I will be going to an audiologist again soon, last time I went in February I had a huge hearing drop. One thing I cant understand is how can a ear test of 110db for 3 minutes cause more damage.

Michael Leigh, I really want to move on believe me. I want to have a job and fall in love, buy a house, get a car, travel, etc. My T is just very loud to handle, it is the same volume as a person's voice. It makes it hard to hear what people are saying. I been 8 months with T and H from the second acoustic trauma and I seen 0 improvement. What is strange is that on my first acoustic trauma Sep 23, 2017 I noticed improvement (huge) in 2-3 weeks. Tinnitus faded to a level where I was just annoyed by it, but I was able to function, this however is another ballpark altogether. I dont want to be nasty but I believe that the time T can fade is 1-8 months, after that it becomes very hard to do so. I call this the golden time period of Tinnitus as it can reduce to a level where its tolerable. I am struggling very much now more so than last year. I sleep 4 hours max and sometimes dont sleep at all. My Audiologist told me there is no way I have an acoustic trauma since I have T on left ear.
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Then start researching. Believe the solution is within our grasp. Ask God to help us.
 
#50
Michael Leigh said:
What makes you so sure God doesn't exist? If you believe as many do, that the world just appeared out of thin air or the evolution theory, or that we live on a rotating ball. Just open your eyes the truth is right in-front of you.

Michael
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DNA, a quaternary program for a biomechanical machine, made of amino acids, used to code the shapes of highly complex molecular structures called proteins, and the complete cell, with all of its organelles, both just popped into existence at the same time, before the DNA could ever even synthesize the first protein. All ready to go, and able to replicate itself. Protein synthesis, mitosis, and cellular metabolism all just came into existence in a random coincidence all in one complete package on the very first iteration.
 
#51
Michael Leigh said:
What makes you so sure God doesn't exist? If you believe as many do, that the world just appeared out of thin air or the evolution theory, or that we live on a rotating ball. Just open your eyes the truth is right in-front of you.

Michael
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How can god create something so awful as Tinnitus? No human deserves to go through this. I wouldnt wish this on any human being, not on anyone, it is so terrible. I think Tinnitus/Hyperacusis are truly nightmares that no human mind can conceive. I am still shocked that something like this can exsist, if somewone told me what this was 8 years ago I would have told them that there is no way that a human brain can make a sound louder than somewone's voice, or the human ear can experience pain when you talk or other people are talking. How can I believe in a god like this? How many people suffer in the world because of diseases? There are people who are born into poverty and live through wars and suffering, only to get some of their life back, then they find out they have cancer or tinnitus. How is that fair? I am not god and I am not perfect but I wouldnt let stuff like that happen, no matter how crappy the person can be.
 
#52
JohnAdams said:
DNA, a quaternary program for a biomechanical machine, made of amino acids, used to code the shapes of highly complex molecular structures called proteins, and the complete cell, with all of its organelles, both just popped into existence at the same time, before the DNA could ever even synthesize the first protein. All ready to go, and able to replicate itself. Protein synthesis, mitosis, and cellular metabolism all just came into existence in a random coincidence all in one complete package on the very first iteration.
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This is well over my head @JohnAdams . Science is lies mixed with the truth. Therefore I have a open mind on everything pertaining to science.
 
#53
dpdx said:
How can god create something so awful as Tinnitus? No human deserves to go through this. I wouldnt wish this on any human being, not on anyone, it is so terrible. I think Tinnitus/Hyperacusis are truly nightmares that no human mind can conceive. I am still shocked that something like this can exsist, if somewone told me what this was 8 years ago I would have told them that there is no way that a human brain can make a sound louder than somewone's voice, or the human ear can experience pain when you talk or other people are talking. How can I believe in a god like this? How many people suffer in the world because of diseases? There are people who are born into poverty and live through wars and suffering, only to get some of their life back, then they find out they have cancer or tinnitus. How is that fair? I am not god and I am not perfect but I wouldnt let stuff like that happen, no matter how crappy the person can be.
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I hear you and I don't have the answers your questions. All I will say is that life is problematic and whatever comes our way we have to try our best to cope with it and that's all we can do. I agree that it isn't fair and some people get more than their fair share. I look at my life and look at the positive things that I can do with having tinnitus and not what I can't.
 
#54
Michael Leigh said:
I hear you and I don't have the answers your questions. All I will say is that life is problematic and whatever comes our way we have to try our best to cope with it and that's all we can do. I agree that it isn't fair and some people get more than their fair share. I look at my life and look at the positive things that I can do with having tinnitus and not what I can't.
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cant his punishments be a little less harsh?
 
#55
dpdx said:
How can god create something so awful as Tinnitus? No human deserves to go through this. I wouldnt wish this on any human being, not on anyone, it is so terrible. I think Tinnitus/Hyperacusis are truly nightmares that no human mind can conceive. I am still shocked that something like this can exsist, if somewone told me what this was 8 years ago I would have told them that there is no way that a human brain can make a sound louder than somewone's voice, or the human ear can experience pain when you talk or other people are talking. How can I believe in a god like this? How many people suffer in the world because of diseases? There are people who are born into poverty and live through wars and suffering, only to get some of their life back, then they find out they have cancer or tinnitus. How is that fair? I am not god and I am not perfect but I wouldnt let stuff like that happen, no matter how crappy the person can be.
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It is part of death. This is all explained in the first 3 chapters of the Bible. The rest of the Bible explains how we will be delivered from death.
 
#59
Michael Leigh said:
I am unable to answer your question because I have never seen tinnitus as a punishment from God. It is something that I never questioned even when my tinnitus reached severe levels back in 2008 and took me 4 long years to habituate.
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Michael, I have a question regarding Tinnitus. Can T increase without further damage? or does there have to be additional damage.
 
#60
Michael Leigh said:
I am unable to answer your question because I have never seen tinnitus as a punishment from God. It is something that I never questioned even when my tinnitus reached severe levels back in 2008 and took me 4 long years to habituate.
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Tinnitus is just another part of the curse of death. It is a consequence of mankind's sin, which we have all partaken in. God punished us and expelled our ancestors from the Garden and cut us off from the Treeof Life. So yeah, I'd definitely say tinnitus is punishment from God. All disease is. My hope is that He allows us to find a cure soon, or He just returns, which inevitably would also lead to a remedy of all diseases.
 

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