Hey guys,
I had T after a gunshot with no ear protection last November. It was in my right ear, and thankfully, went away. In January I got a month long head cold and the beginning of February I noticed I had a high pitched ringing in both ears. Doctor said it was probably Eustachian tube dysfunction. The next two months were hell, but eventually I got over it. I had 7 months of slight worrying, but overall I was fine. It was a high pitched ringing in both ears.
Fast forward to last weekend. I drove 4 hours to see my family. Friday night I went out and got piss faced drunk, I had about 10-12 beers in a friends basement. There was music playing and people talking, but it wasn't loud at all. I noticed in the middle of the of the night I went outside to grab something from my car and it was so quiet, like my ears were full of pressure. I dismissed it immediately. The next day my left ear acted funky but I thought nothing of it. Later that night I went to a bar (the first one in months) and I was there for not even 30 seconds before I dismissed it for being too loud and drove to my parents house.
The next day, on the drive home in the afternoon I noticed that both my ears were "screeching" in a sense. Like it's random up and down high pitches or like crickets in my ear. It's been almost a week, I've been to the doctor who gave me prednisone and chalked it up to a vitamin imbalance and said it would go away. Before I took the prednisone I went to the ENT who looked in my ears and said they were fine, and to keep using my flonase and to hold off on the prednisone (for anxiety).
Is this a temporary spike, should I take the prednisone? I was at such a happy point in life. I was growing accustomed to the tinnitus. Almost welcomed it! Now, I feel like the 6 months worth of work that I did is all for nothing. It's so incredibly hard to mask it when it sounds like crickets chirping and it's not a solid tone.
I had T after a gunshot with no ear protection last November. It was in my right ear, and thankfully, went away. In January I got a month long head cold and the beginning of February I noticed I had a high pitched ringing in both ears. Doctor said it was probably Eustachian tube dysfunction. The next two months were hell, but eventually I got over it. I had 7 months of slight worrying, but overall I was fine. It was a high pitched ringing in both ears.
Fast forward to last weekend. I drove 4 hours to see my family. Friday night I went out and got piss faced drunk, I had about 10-12 beers in a friends basement. There was music playing and people talking, but it wasn't loud at all. I noticed in the middle of the of the night I went outside to grab something from my car and it was so quiet, like my ears were full of pressure. I dismissed it immediately. The next day my left ear acted funky but I thought nothing of it. Later that night I went to a bar (the first one in months) and I was there for not even 30 seconds before I dismissed it for being too loud and drove to my parents house.
The next day, on the drive home in the afternoon I noticed that both my ears were "screeching" in a sense. Like it's random up and down high pitches or like crickets in my ear. It's been almost a week, I've been to the doctor who gave me prednisone and chalked it up to a vitamin imbalance and said it would go away. Before I took the prednisone I went to the ENT who looked in my ears and said they were fine, and to keep using my flonase and to hold off on the prednisone (for anxiety).
Is this a temporary spike, should I take the prednisone? I was at such a happy point in life. I was growing accustomed to the tinnitus. Almost welcomed it! Now, I feel like the 6 months worth of work that I did is all for nothing. It's so incredibly hard to mask it when it sounds like crickets chirping and it's not a solid tone.
