- Nov 2, 2022
- 8
- Tinnitus Since
- 09/2022
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Listening to loud music over headphones for 4hours on a bike
Hey guys!
I am 29 years old. I got tinnitus in my left ear 7 weeks ago. The right ear is fine, no tinnitus there.
On Monday, the 12th September I went alone for a longer trip with my bike, because my boyfriend was out of the country. The trip took 4 hours and I was constantly listening to loud music (did not notice it was that loud because of the traffic and the wind) over the earplugs.
In the evening when I wanted to go to sleep, pulsatile tinnitus (hearing heartbeat in my ear) started in my left ear. I started Googling it, but when my heart beat calmed down, the pulsatile tinnitus also disappeared; it lasted for about an hour. So I could sleep well then the whole night. The next day there was no pulsatile tinnitus until the evening when I went to bed again. That is when the pulsatile tinnitus started again, a little bit stronger than the previous day. It took about 2 hours to calm down, then I could sleep again. But when I woke up, it was there again the whole day (that was Wednesday). When I got home in the afternoon, I talked to my boyfriend who told me to try Valsalva maneuver (to close your nostrils and blow air through closed nostrils as much as you can) and it was like some kind of wall closed and the pulsatile tinnitus was gone immediately. I felt so relieved. It never came back afterwards.
I was so happy that night. But then the next day, around midday at work in the office, I started to hear ringing. I did not know where it was coming from at first, but then realized that it's in my left part of the head/ear. I started to get really anxious and it started to get louder and louder. And then the agony began...
I could not sleep for more than an hour or two for the first 2-3 weeks. I was crying myself to sleep almost every night and was crying throughout the day (I still do on some days). I had such a great life before that, a great job, a wonderful boyfriend and was genuinely happy, we were planning to start a family in a year or two.
After 4 weeks we started to listen to a podcast in the evening. We put it on for an hour and then the computer turned off by itself. That helped. We still do that and that way I can fall asleep. I still wake up during the night though, but most of the time I can fall back asleep. In the past few days I woke up 2 times per night... around midnight and 3 am. But I know that I could have slept better before, I was sleeping really deeply the whole night, but now I think it's not a real deep sleep most of the night (maybe for 2-3 hours it is).
The distress and loudness of the tinnitus varies over the day, sometimes it's 6/10 and sometimes 3/10. At the beginning I think it was 10/10. Sometimes I hear high-pitched ringing and when it disappears I hear crickets or sounds like electricity.
Does any one of you have the same or a similar situation? Starting with pulsatile tinnitus after loud noise exposure and then followed by subjective tinnitus? Will it ever go away? Because I do not know if I can imagine having a family while having tinnitus. Can I?
I did all the tests at the ENT, neurologist, neurosurgeon, MRI scan, hearing test - everything was fine.
I did have middle ear infection in my left ear for about 5 times in my life. And the pressure in my left ear does not always equalize right away on a plane for example, so could that mean that my left ear was already more sensitive and with the loud music I just triggered tinnitus?
Otherwise I did not have any issues with the ears before, especially the right ear was always fine, and I do not have tinnitus in my right ear.
I just wish like all of you that somebody would find the cure for this and we would all live happily ever after.
I would appreciate some supportive comments or success stories with a similar situation as mine.
Hang in there, fighters!
Aurora
I am 29 years old. I got tinnitus in my left ear 7 weeks ago. The right ear is fine, no tinnitus there.
On Monday, the 12th September I went alone for a longer trip with my bike, because my boyfriend was out of the country. The trip took 4 hours and I was constantly listening to loud music (did not notice it was that loud because of the traffic and the wind) over the earplugs.
In the evening when I wanted to go to sleep, pulsatile tinnitus (hearing heartbeat in my ear) started in my left ear. I started Googling it, but when my heart beat calmed down, the pulsatile tinnitus also disappeared; it lasted for about an hour. So I could sleep well then the whole night. The next day there was no pulsatile tinnitus until the evening when I went to bed again. That is when the pulsatile tinnitus started again, a little bit stronger than the previous day. It took about 2 hours to calm down, then I could sleep again. But when I woke up, it was there again the whole day (that was Wednesday). When I got home in the afternoon, I talked to my boyfriend who told me to try Valsalva maneuver (to close your nostrils and blow air through closed nostrils as much as you can) and it was like some kind of wall closed and the pulsatile tinnitus was gone immediately. I felt so relieved. It never came back afterwards.
I was so happy that night. But then the next day, around midday at work in the office, I started to hear ringing. I did not know where it was coming from at first, but then realized that it's in my left part of the head/ear. I started to get really anxious and it started to get louder and louder. And then the agony began...
I could not sleep for more than an hour or two for the first 2-3 weeks. I was crying myself to sleep almost every night and was crying throughout the day (I still do on some days). I had such a great life before that, a great job, a wonderful boyfriend and was genuinely happy, we were planning to start a family in a year or two.
After 4 weeks we started to listen to a podcast in the evening. We put it on for an hour and then the computer turned off by itself. That helped. We still do that and that way I can fall asleep. I still wake up during the night though, but most of the time I can fall back asleep. In the past few days I woke up 2 times per night... around midnight and 3 am. But I know that I could have slept better before, I was sleeping really deeply the whole night, but now I think it's not a real deep sleep most of the night (maybe for 2-3 hours it is).
The distress and loudness of the tinnitus varies over the day, sometimes it's 6/10 and sometimes 3/10. At the beginning I think it was 10/10. Sometimes I hear high-pitched ringing and when it disappears I hear crickets or sounds like electricity.
Does any one of you have the same or a similar situation? Starting with pulsatile tinnitus after loud noise exposure and then followed by subjective tinnitus? Will it ever go away? Because I do not know if I can imagine having a family while having tinnitus. Can I?
I did all the tests at the ENT, neurologist, neurosurgeon, MRI scan, hearing test - everything was fine.
I did have middle ear infection in my left ear for about 5 times in my life. And the pressure in my left ear does not always equalize right away on a plane for example, so could that mean that my left ear was already more sensitive and with the loud music I just triggered tinnitus?
Otherwise I did not have any issues with the ears before, especially the right ear was always fine, and I do not have tinnitus in my right ear.
I just wish like all of you that somebody would find the cure for this and we would all live happily ever after.
I would appreciate some supportive comments or success stories with a similar situation as mine.
Hang in there, fighters!
Aurora
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