MemberI'm a 19 year old dude from Norway who managed to get tinnitus after one ride on a "partybus" during what we call "russetiden", post graduation party time...
I don't really know what to write here other than it seems like a really nice forum, and whenever I'm really down I always get kind of cheered up reading this. People seem nice and you don't have the "freaks" that tend to pop up in other more obscure forums.
I guess I can write my situation, maybe someone relates or can cheer me up with positive experiences.
The bus was REALLY loud, like, ridicoulously loud. The first thing my buddy said was "you don't have ear buds?" I said "No, wtf, you didn't mention that in the phone!" and he said "oh well" or something, I don't remember. I was so obsesseb with drinking and having fun. I've always been so carefull. I figured, this ONE time during this ONE month where we're told to have fun, I guess I'll just let go and party hard. And I did, I hooked up with a chick and motorboated her tits it was AWESOME.
But when I left that bus me ears were so "full" and they were ringing really bad. My hearing was so muffled. I remember barely being able to hear what the taxy driver said during the ride home.
The ringing stayed for 3 days untill I got REALLY sick, I've never been this sick. I had like 42 fever, and threw up and my throat was filled with these white spots. Seemed like strep.
One week of this illness and I started crying because I was scared the T might be permanent. This made me blow my nose, and POOF, my Tinnitus was reduced with like 70%. I was so relieved and was sure I would be fine.
But the tinnitus was still there though, but I figured it would go away. Three days later or something, time for examns. A week of examns where I had to do my best, and I found it so hard to concentrate with this tinnitus.
But I nailed them all and got top grade on all three of them as the only guy in school. Shit was sweet yo.
But man, this tinnitus, it's still there, it's been 2 weeks!
So I went back, nono, it's normal when you've been sick. My doctor ignored the party bus part... What the fuck.
And so, 3 months went where I OBSESSED over these ears. I was convinced it was my eustachain tubes that were clogged (and I'm pretty sure they were, and this amplified the underlying tinnitus) so I kept trying vasalva maneuver, inhaling steam from a kettle with a towel over my head etc.
Then, when university started, a depression hit me REALLY hard. Because my whole life was at pause with tinnitus during the summer break, but when society started again, and my ears were the same.. It hit me so hard, and I "realized" what I had feared, this T was here to stay.
I have never been so sad. My whole body was just numb from hopelessness and crying, I didn't know what to do. I've quit university becaues of this.
Mentally I've sort of recovered from this depression.
But lately, hyperacusis has developed. I'm okay downtown in the city or listening to music, but being in a small room with 3 other people talking, it's SO uncomfortable..
So I'm afraid this will be my new source of depression now.. I hope not. Erik on this forum just wrote that he had never heared of anyone with permanent Hyperacusis. That's a relief. And if it can just sneak up on me like that, surely there is a huge possibility it might go away just as easy?
This turned out to be longer than I had planned.
Sorry.
I don't really know what to write here other than it seems like a really nice forum, and whenever I'm really down I always get kind of cheered up reading this. People seem nice and you don't have the "freaks" that tend to pop up in other more obscure forums.
I guess I can write my situation, maybe someone relates or can cheer me up with positive experiences.
The bus was REALLY loud, like, ridicoulously loud. The first thing my buddy said was "you don't have ear buds?" I said "No, wtf, you didn't mention that in the phone!" and he said "oh well" or something, I don't remember. I was so obsesseb with drinking and having fun. I've always been so carefull. I figured, this ONE time during this ONE month where we're told to have fun, I guess I'll just let go and party hard. And I did, I hooked up with a chick and motorboated her tits it was AWESOME.
But when I left that bus me ears were so "full" and they were ringing really bad. My hearing was so muffled. I remember barely being able to hear what the taxy driver said during the ride home.
The ringing stayed for 3 days untill I got REALLY sick, I've never been this sick. I had like 42 fever, and threw up and my throat was filled with these white spots. Seemed like strep.
One week of this illness and I started crying because I was scared the T might be permanent. This made me blow my nose, and POOF, my Tinnitus was reduced with like 70%. I was so relieved and was sure I would be fine.
But the tinnitus was still there though, but I figured it would go away. Three days later or something, time for examns. A week of examns where I had to do my best, and I found it so hard to concentrate with this tinnitus.
But I nailed them all and got top grade on all three of them as the only guy in school. Shit was sweet yo.
But man, this tinnitus, it's still there, it's been 2 weeks!
So I went back, nono, it's normal when you've been sick. My doctor ignored the party bus part... What the fuck.
And so, 3 months went where I OBSESSED over these ears. I was convinced it was my eustachain tubes that were clogged (and I'm pretty sure they were, and this amplified the underlying tinnitus) so I kept trying vasalva maneuver, inhaling steam from a kettle with a towel over my head etc.
Then, when university started, a depression hit me REALLY hard. Because my whole life was at pause with tinnitus during the summer break, but when society started again, and my ears were the same.. It hit me so hard, and I "realized" what I had feared, this T was here to stay.
I have never been so sad. My whole body was just numb from hopelessness and crying, I didn't know what to do. I've quit university becaues of this.
Mentally I've sort of recovered from this depression.
But lately, hyperacusis has developed. I'm okay downtown in the city or listening to music, but being in a small room with 3 other people talking, it's SO uncomfortable..
So I'm afraid this will be my new source of depression now.. I hope not. Erik on this forum just wrote that he had never heared of anyone with permanent Hyperacusis. That's a relief. And if it can just sneak up on me like that, surely there is a huge possibility it might go away just as easy?
This turned out to be longer than I had planned.
Sorry.
but I giggled too.
