Your story feels similar to mine, except I was exposed to loud music rather than gunshots, in May last year.
I lost 50 dB at 8 kHz (and above) in one ear, the hearing starts declining at some point after 6 kHz. I developed tinnitus in that ear and soon after it also started in the other ear, which has no measurable hearing damage. It fluctuates so much that I can't tell whether it's gotten better. Initially I also had hyperacusis and some distortion, the distortion went away and the hyperacusis got a lot better after a while.
For me the most frustrating thing isn't the hearing loss or the tinnitus itself, but the anxiety it sometimes causes when the sound changes, and the paranoia over losing more of my hearing. I am afraid of loud sounds. It takes so little to damage the ears, and strangely, some are affected while others are not, when exposed to the same sounds (or drugs, or infections).
I lost 50 dB at 8 kHz (and above) in one ear, the hearing starts declining at some point after 6 kHz. I developed tinnitus in that ear and soon after it also started in the other ear, which has no measurable hearing damage. It fluctuates so much that I can't tell whether it's gotten better. Initially I also had hyperacusis and some distortion, the distortion went away and the hyperacusis got a lot better after a while.
For me the most frustrating thing isn't the hearing loss or the tinnitus itself, but the anxiety it sometimes causes when the sound changes, and the paranoia over losing more of my hearing. I am afraid of loud sounds. It takes so little to damage the ears, and strangely, some are affected while others are not, when exposed to the same sounds (or drugs, or infections).