I'm 15 and from Australia. I have had T since march of 2013.Here is my story 
It started on a Sunday morning back in march, heading out to the shooting range for my weekly clay trap shooting comp with a small group of friends.I stand up, borrow my friends shotgun and forget to put my ear muffs on. *BANG* "Crap forgot my muffs." Little did i know it was a little more serious than i first thought. About a week later i come down with a cold.
I visit the local doc with a ringing ear. He give me antibiotics due to my cold I have gotten a ear infection. a month later and not missing a single drop, still ringing in my right ear.This time we go to a different doctor. He notices a perforation in my left ear. this is about 2 months after the ringing starts. we go back to him a month later (Ringing still there) he checks and said " Yeah i thought so we didn't give it enough time to heal." Gives us the name of a highly recommended ENT doc. We visit this ENT about 2 months later. No perforation at all but the ringing is still there. After talking with him he recommends a hearing test to make sure the shot didn't cause any hearing loss and a MRI to make sure it isn't a tumor.
After the MRI and hearing test i don't have a tumor and no significant hearing loss, T has become a part of my life.Using noise machines to help my get to sleep. always having some music playing in the back ground. Kinda surprising to myself and my ENT about how calm i am working with it. It is by no means a quiet ringing. Using this scale http://www.hearing.nihr.ac.uk/public/auditory-examples-sounds-of-tinnitus it is number 9.
If you have friends or family, kinds or neighbours. Ear protection is not a simple thing you can skip every now and then. Its the good old Nah it will never happen to me thought. I had that exact same thought after i pulled the trigger. that went away after my ears were still ringing 10 hours later.
Mars, Physics and ear protection enthusiast, Alexander.
It started on a Sunday morning back in march, heading out to the shooting range for my weekly clay trap shooting comp with a small group of friends.I stand up, borrow my friends shotgun and forget to put my ear muffs on. *BANG* "Crap forgot my muffs." Little did i know it was a little more serious than i first thought. About a week later i come down with a cold.
I visit the local doc with a ringing ear. He give me antibiotics due to my cold I have gotten a ear infection. a month later and not missing a single drop, still ringing in my right ear.This time we go to a different doctor. He notices a perforation in my left ear. this is about 2 months after the ringing starts. we go back to him a month later (Ringing still there) he checks and said " Yeah i thought so we didn't give it enough time to heal." Gives us the name of a highly recommended ENT doc. We visit this ENT about 2 months later. No perforation at all but the ringing is still there. After talking with him he recommends a hearing test to make sure the shot didn't cause any hearing loss and a MRI to make sure it isn't a tumor.
After the MRI and hearing test i don't have a tumor and no significant hearing loss, T has become a part of my life.Using noise machines to help my get to sleep. always having some music playing in the back ground. Kinda surprising to myself and my ENT about how calm i am working with it. It is by no means a quiet ringing. Using this scale http://www.hearing.nihr.ac.uk/public/auditory-examples-sounds-of-tinnitus it is number 9.
If you have friends or family, kinds or neighbours. Ear protection is not a simple thing you can skip every now and then. Its the good old Nah it will never happen to me thought. I had that exact same thought after i pulled the trigger. that went away after my ears were still ringing 10 hours later.
Mars, Physics and ear protection enthusiast, Alexander.
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