Ears Feel Strange After I Dropped Full Plastic Water Bottle

[yeahm]

I dropped a big full plastic bottle of water on concrete floor from some height and now my ears are acting up. The bottle is 3 lb and it dropped from a height of 5 feet. It made a loud low boom and the bottle bounced back from the ground twice.

I am glad that it was no glass bottle but it was still strangely loud and the bottle was heavy and dropped from 5 feet directly next to me. I am pretty worried right now.

Can someone tell me how loud this must have been and how dangerous this is?

 

[jasonbourne]

Is this a joke?

 

[Michael B]

Can't tell you how loud it was but can safely suggest that your ears may be reacting to the sound but should calm down within time.

 

[Elfin]

can test the noise by using a sound metre and then dropping the bottle again? Put plugs or muffs on before doing so if concerned about the noise. Then you will have the answer to how loud it was. None of us here can accurately give that to you

 

[coffee_girl]

You'll be ok, remain calm and don't panic

 

[yeahm]

I know that compared to a glass shattering this might sound less of a problem. But this is no joke. My ears are worse than in the last few weeks. And the boom sound was loud and I was worried immediately.

I try to calm down. I hesitate to throw the bottle again at this point because who knows what might happen even with protection.

Thank you all!

 

[Michael B]

@yeahm It will get better

 

[PDodge]

Just gonna throw my story in here to make you feel better. Right when I got T say the first two weeks a coworker dropped a glass bottle that had an air vacuum between the two layers. It exploded
It was so loud I thought I was more screwed. But I was fine

 

[Lex]

Is this a joke?

It's not. Some of us here have worse ears than others. When my mother dropped the tin cover of her pill bottle to the wooden floor of my bedroom as I was on all fours looking for my shoe underneath my bed, I instantly felt a a sharp pang of pain in my left ear (the one nearer to the spot where the cover fell) before I even realized what was happening. The sound wasn't even loud! But that ear was in pain for an hour after the incident.

 

[Red]

It's not. Some of us here have worse ears than others. When my mother dropped the tin cover of her pill bottle to the wooden floor of my bedroom as I was on all fours looking for my shoe underneath my bed, I instantly felt a a sharp pang of pain in my left ear (the one nearer to the spot where the cover fell) before I even realized what was happening. The sound wasn't even loud! But that ear was in pain for an hour after the incident.

Yeah, @yeahm could have hyperacusis. 40% of tinnitus sufferers with it, guys. Doesn't always have to be pain. Most people probably just have the loudness/discomfort variant.

 

[jasonbourne]

It's not. Some of us here have worse ears than others. When my mother dropped the tin cover of her pill bottle to the wooden floor of my bedroom as I was on all fours looking for my shoe underneath my bed, I instantly felt a a sharp pang of pain in my left ear (the one nearer to the spot where the cover fell) before I even realized what was happening. The sound wasn't even loud! But that ear was in pain for an hour after the incident.

but he's not talking about sound sensitivity. He is implying it made his tinnitus worse.