Ear Fullness... Help Me

[paganismos]

Hi everyone
I was doing so much better! Last week my CBT therapist told me to try and avoid thinking about tinnitus, and I did... I couldn't hear the tone at all, and the buzzing was there but almost unnoticeable.

Yesterday I went to a bar with loud music (I had done this before with zero issues) with my plugs on. The waiter put us on a table in front of a speaker. I did not notice this and we were sitting there for about one and a half minute and we moved further away from it. I started to panic because I feared a spike, so after 20 minutes or so, I got out of the bar.

Thank God I didn't get a spike. The tone came back but in a very low volume (I atribute this to anxiety), but somehow I managed to get ear fullness in my 'worst' ear. I am scared it will last forever, since I was having issues with ETD due to TMJD. Will it go away? What can I do for it to get better?

I know I shouldn't have gone so close to the speaker, so don't scowl me for that.

Should I take prednisone?

@Bill Bauer Hi, I think you have some insight in this situation

 

[Frizz]

As someone with awful on and off ETD, TMJ, tinnitus, and hyperacusis, it'll probably go away. Even an atrocious noise insult to me that leaves me with searing, burning ear pain and shocking aural fullness goes away eventually. Just stay in silence for a bit and be glad you're not in too much physical agony.

You had earplugs in as well, which makes your case all the more likely to improve. I'd maybe recommend pred, but it's hard for me to say. You don't want to become too reliable on the drug, and your incident seems a bit mild for it but only you know you.

 

[paganismos]

Thank you @Frizz
I remember your posts from three months ago, just when mine started. I hope you're in a good place mentally, and your problems are getting better with time.

I was quite scared of ruining my progress, but I'm glad I didn't get a spike. The tone has settled down to a really low volume, as it is sometimes. I'm praying the aural fullness goes away in the next few weeks. Thanks to this experience I have learned that everything is temporary, and whenever I feel bad I repeat the words of St. Theresa of Avila (it sounds much better in spanish, haha):

Let nothing trouble you;
let nothing frighten you;
everything changes *,
but God does not.
[Through] patience
you will obtain everything;
whoever has God is lacking nothing:
[having] only God is enough.

 

[Dana]

Should I take prednisone?

I would advice you to not take Prednisone.
Some people had tinnitus worsening from it.