I experienced fleeting tinnitus Monday this week, it was a pretty loud tone and a significant muffled feeling in my right ear. The tinnitus noise went away relatively quickly, within a minute or so, but the muffled/stuffed ear feeling didn't go away completely. I became quite scared of this as I'm really anxious when it comes to my ears and my hearing. Now, a few days later I still have a slight stuffed feeling in my right ear and I feel like I hear ever so slightly less than usual and my own voice seems a bit lower in my right ear. Ironically enough, the tinnitus I had in that ear since earlier seems to have decreased a lot, I barely hear it now even if I try to listen for it in a quiet room.
Then just recently today I had this fleeting tinnitus and muffled hearing in my left ear instead, not once, but twice within just ten minutes or so. I of course started panicking due to this because just having issues with my right ear is more than enough for me (although it definitely isn't a significant muffled feeling or significantly less hearing in my right ear, but I think about it all the time). It went away within a few seconds however and it seems to have gone back to normal. My right ear on the other hand still feels a bit weird. If I pop my ear a lot it can occasionally feel a little better, but the stuffed feeling doesn't go away completely. I got my ears inspected yesterday and I did the tuning fork test, nothing unusual on either ear with that and when put on top of my head I felt like it was pretty symmetrical (I didn't notice it being panned left during the time it was vibrating at least). My ear drum looked good (he mentioned it at most looked ever so slightly bulged one way, but I was blowing air into my ear and evening out the pressure while he checked as he told me, so I don't know if he noticed that while I was doing that) and there was no wax causing the problem. He told me to keep my node clear and he said it could either be due to the fact that I've had a stuffy nose recently or due to liquid behind the eardrum, although my ears felt just fine before this started this Monday, so I definitely feel like there's a connection.
I have had a stuffy nose recently and I feel like there's a pressure inside the ear often. Should I wait longer and see if this goes away or should I be worried? As of right now, I'm already really worried that it won't go away.