Hi all. You may recognise my name, I used to post it last year. An incident occurred back in September 2018, where during lunch time at school, a football was kicked and it ended up hitting me square on the left ear. People who saw it tell me it was travelling quite fast, and it came from not too far away (I will add it was a total accident).
My ear did hurt after, however, I didn't actually notice a change in my hearing afterwards - no fullness feeling either. I felt quite lucky. It just hurt for a bit. No bruising or anything, but the sound of it hitting me was just loud.
I really can't be sure of this, but I think, think, and I'm only starting to worry, that the football did damage. I have been preoccupied by other health worries since September, and I've began thinking about it again and I'm just worried. Testing with 8 kHz and above online (which I do reliably, on minimum, barely audible volume with headphones, I'm pretty sure my left ear is slightly weaker on those high frequencies. I don't think there's any wax in there either, as my mum looked.
I didn't notice any tinnitus in that ear after either. I have now developed a lot of tinnitus, having suffered huge amounts of stress and anxiety regarding OCD hypochondria, which I'm receiving CBT for. However, I do now get loud ringing in the left ear, I think since about 2 months after it happened, where after long enough in silence, it rings loudly with a lower pitched whine. 99% sure this is because my right ear is weak in terms of processing sound, and my left ear works harder, or stress, or something else, but I'm not sure we can connect this to the football, otherwise, from experience, generally tinnitus would occur shortly after.
So this is where I am. The left hear can hear high frequencies, but seemingly ever so slightly worse. And I think this is since the football, because I tested frequencies about a week after and I'm pretty sure there's a change? Again, I really just didn't get any symptoms after the incident though.
Opinions. The football. Could I have walked away unscathed, or damage? Please tell me your thoughts!
Josh
My ear did hurt after, however, I didn't actually notice a change in my hearing afterwards - no fullness feeling either. I felt quite lucky. It just hurt for a bit. No bruising or anything, but the sound of it hitting me was just loud.
I really can't be sure of this, but I think, think, and I'm only starting to worry, that the football did damage. I have been preoccupied by other health worries since September, and I've began thinking about it again and I'm just worried. Testing with 8 kHz and above online (which I do reliably, on minimum, barely audible volume with headphones, I'm pretty sure my left ear is slightly weaker on those high frequencies. I don't think there's any wax in there either, as my mum looked.
I didn't notice any tinnitus in that ear after either. I have now developed a lot of tinnitus, having suffered huge amounts of stress and anxiety regarding OCD hypochondria, which I'm receiving CBT for. However, I do now get loud ringing in the left ear, I think since about 2 months after it happened, where after long enough in silence, it rings loudly with a lower pitched whine. 99% sure this is because my right ear is weak in terms of processing sound, and my left ear works harder, or stress, or something else, but I'm not sure we can connect this to the football, otherwise, from experience, generally tinnitus would occur shortly after.
So this is where I am. The left hear can hear high frequencies, but seemingly ever so slightly worse. And I think this is since the football, because I tested frequencies about a week after and I'm pretty sure there's a change? Again, I really just didn't get any symptoms after the incident though.
Opinions. The football. Could I have walked away unscathed, or damage? Please tell me your thoughts!
Josh
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