My worst spike happened when I pressed a phone (its volume stuck at Max) to my bad ear, and the person on the other end raised her voice to greet me. One might think: "It's just a phone, how can it do anything? It was Designed to be pressed next to the ear!" and yet I had a spike that had lasted for over three months, and had involved my T changing to a more unbearable frequency.
Going to GP tomorrow because there is high frequency loss in the left ear, which came on suddenly as I said recently. I'm still unsure whether wax on the drum can truly reduce ability to hear the frequencies so I'm taking action tomorrow.
It ought to begin fading soon. If you end up not hearing silence again, you might still end up with T that you can hear only when you are in a quiet room. So what you are hearing now is most likely not what you will be stuck with.
Hi Bill. Again the tinnitus has proven to be unpredictable. The sound in my left ear is alot quieter now - barely audible! Seems like it may dissappear. However, weirdly my right ear started making a noise. Now, onto my point, the valsalva manoeuvre. My doctor recommended doing it regularly in order to clear my middle ear, and when my Mum saw an ENT (should I mention, an ENT of 20 years experienced whose also an ENT surgeon), also recommended the manoeuvre.
It is unpredictable only over the short-term. It is more predictable when you look at the monthly/yearly trend. I think that there is a good chance that even your right ear will get a lot quieter (or even get completely quiet).
A number of people on this forum had reported getting T as a Result of doing Valsalva maneuver. I Might be one of them. It is very surprising that I got T as a result of something that lasted a fraction of a second. I got ear fullness right after my acoustic trauma, and I tried Valsalva maneuver, but it didn't work. Now I suspect that perhaps doing this maneuver had contributed to me getting T 18 months ago.
It is not just the noise that can damage our ears. The pressure can do it too.
Let's hope that you will be ok because you were gentle when you did it...
How do you know? The data (given in those posts) seems to suggest the opposite. If you refuse to look at the data, it is like saying "Those giraffe pictures must be photoshoped as it is impossible for an animal to have a neck that is That long. It is impossible because such a thing would clearly be impossible."
OH DEAR... I was literally half asleep and forgot all about this, remembering what the doc said, so I did the manoeuvre thing... Well luckily I was awake enough to know I needed to be very gentle. Kinda has spiked again. Jeez too clumsy but glad I was careful. When I'm careful I'm able to make it a pretty quiet process.
I say that, a ringing in my left ear (an old sound) has returned and it's bad in my right ear now. Very bad. I think that'll definelty be the last time.
I remember reading posts describing people getting T as a result of airplanes descending too rapidly. There exists a pressure (that one can create using V maneuver) that can damage our ears.
I am glad that you did it gently. You ought to be fine.
If it spikes Every Time you perform that maneuver, I hope you consider listening to the signals given to you by your body, and acting accordingly.
Yes I am slightly worried now. Sometimes even if you do it gently, as I'm sure you know, the noise can be a little loud. That happened in the left and now there a ring in there whilst the right had also spiked alot now despite not much of a sound being made.
Given how long it takes for even the most minor ear traumas to heal, you should worry about doing serious damage to yourself only if this spike lasts for longer than 1-3 months. Common sense seems to imply that if you had been gentle, you shouldn't have caused any serious damage. Also, keep in mind that this was recommended to you by a doctor. So let's hope for the best.
No. The pressure from popping your ear is not the same as a deep diver experiences.
Thank you Glynis. I am insuring I do it no more than a few times a day. But, no matter how gentle I am with it, sometimes the noise made seems startling. I did it gently 30 mins ago, and it made a popping noise in my right ear, which has caused the exact same spike as last time
I feel silly but I'm genuinely bring really gentle, even so I end up making the tinnitus worse. Right ear ringing quite a bit again now.
Thing is an ENT recommended doing it gently, a few times a day. (I've done it 4 times in the last 12 hours). The 4th time, as I said above, has made right ear ringing bad again. Quite frustrating as I don't even know how my right ear started ringing in the first place...Thank you Glynis. I am insuring I do it no more than a few times a day. But, no matter how gentle I am with it, sometimes the noise made seems startling. I did it gently 30 mins ago, and it made a popping noise in my right ear, which has caused the exact same spike as last time
Why do you continue using this maneuver?I did it gently 30 mins ago, and it made a popping noise in my right ear, which has caused the exact same spike as last time
Well firstly the loud ringing that starts in the right ear sounds more like the kind of ringing caused by air pressure. It seems far too odd that tinnitus like this should start up even when doing the manoeuvre so gently. I decided to take into account both what the doctor had said and the weird spikes and do it only a few times a day, since otherwise the recovery will take longer.
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