Hey Everyone,
I would like to firstly thank this forum for providing me with support along time ago when I first experienced a traumatic ear injury. You all helped a young man who felt truly alone and I have prospered ever since then.
I am writing you now for help because it has been 12 years since I had a bag exploded in my right ear and my symptoms are worsening and I have becoming increasingly tired of dealing with them. To sum up my story briefly at 16 I had a bad popped in my ear, went deaf for 2-3 weeks, tinnitus started, my hearing returned but symptoms continue. Below are my symptoms.
Tinnitus(I would rate this as low-mild but it has been worse lately)Not my main issue
Voice Distortion (This is what I want to fix, it has never gone away since that day) I even hear my own voice distorted in my right ear..Every single time I talk above "softly"
Sensitivity to loud noise( Mostly b/c of the distortion)
I recently went to an ENT and I had a perfect hearing test and acoustic test (ear drum test). This was my worst fear, I actually wanted something to be wrong with my eardrum or something.. alas.
The issue that bothers me is the crackling, blown out speaker sound that I hear with almost every noise.. The louder the sound more distortion that happens and it just sooooo uncomfortable. Do my symptoms match anything specifically? I was reading about TTS and that seems to fit some thing but I don't have much fluttering or fullness, my fear is that my nerves are just shot and I am stuck with this for life.
Thank you,
-Craig
I would like to firstly thank this forum for providing me with support along time ago when I first experienced a traumatic ear injury. You all helped a young man who felt truly alone and I have prospered ever since then.
I am writing you now for help because it has been 12 years since I had a bag exploded in my right ear and my symptoms are worsening and I have becoming increasingly tired of dealing with them. To sum up my story briefly at 16 I had a bad popped in my ear, went deaf for 2-3 weeks, tinnitus started, my hearing returned but symptoms continue. Below are my symptoms.
Tinnitus(I would rate this as low-mild but it has been worse lately)Not my main issue
Voice Distortion (This is what I want to fix, it has never gone away since that day) I even hear my own voice distorted in my right ear..Every single time I talk above "softly"
Sensitivity to loud noise( Mostly b/c of the distortion)
I recently went to an ENT and I had a perfect hearing test and acoustic test (ear drum test). This was my worst fear, I actually wanted something to be wrong with my eardrum or something.. alas.
The issue that bothers me is the crackling, blown out speaker sound that I hear with almost every noise.. The louder the sound more distortion that happens and it just sooooo uncomfortable. Do my symptoms match anything specifically? I was reading about TTS and that seems to fit some thing but I don't have much fluttering or fullness, my fear is that my nerves are just shot and I am stuck with this for life.
Thank you,
-Craig