Could Inserting Earplug or Earpiece Too Fast Have Stretched My Eardrum or Caused Permanent Damage?

[missingsilence]

Hi everyone,

I was curious if anyone has had a bad experience with inserting an earplug too fast. I was wondering, because I had something similar happen to me when I was at the audiologist and they did an Otoacoustic Emissions test. They were unable to get the rubber earpiece (kind of like an earplug or earbud) into my ear and the technician applied pressure and it still wouldn't go in. It then suddenly aligned with my ear canal and entered rapidly. I had a brief moment of pain. This was over a year or two ago, yet that ear feels like it clicks and cracks more than the other. I try to move my jaw to have it pop and I feel like my eardrum or Eustachian Tube is moving.It is also the side where I feel like my nose is chronically stuffy.

Could such a sudden insertion have permanently stretched my eardrum or caused permanent damage? I have had the ear looked at since then and the eardrum was not perforated.

This has been bugging me lately.

Thanks.

 

[Brooklyn NY]

Hi, sorry to hear about your situation. After 3 years of having tinnitus, I think the danger with ear plugs is more in taking them out too quickly and forcefully, not in inserting them. Good luck.

 

[BreachOfEuphoria]

Have you had ALL of your nerve canals from your teeth checked with an x-ray recently? Especially important if you have any root canals on teeth.

I ask because I had a "silent" infection from molar into jawbone and sinuses. And probably from jawbone to ear and then ending in the spine. For years and years. This has impacted my life very much in a negative manner.

 

[Freerunner]

@missingsilence, did your issue go away? I have the same now, however my eardrum hurts, hearing is a little muffled and, worst of all, my tinnitus increased by 50 percent...