Hello, I'm 25 and have had tinnitus in both ears for 3 years almost exactly, but I've been sensitive to sound my whole life. I had normal hearing tests.
I've never been to concerts, etc.. I stopped all headphone use except to protect my ears during flights.
The ringing was miserable and omnipresent but fluctuating and very hard to mask (could hear it clearly in planes but shower usually masked it).
7 days ago suddenly it felt like my right ear exploded in terms of blaring alarms and Morse code. When I turn on the shower or any song the ringing increases and is very easily heard.
It is now a constant low-frequency buzzing jet engine that reacts to everything, unmaskable and unignorable. It's so loud I sometimes can't hear the usual high-frequency ringing in my other ear.
The ear also seems deaf, out of absolutely nowhere.
When I breathe or move my arm I hear weird sounds like rubbing a violin. This happened during the hearing test, too - the white noise played in my good ear reflected in my deaf one.
When anyone talks there is a robotic crunch.
It feels like a buzzing and pulsing pressure suddenly appeared in the entire right side of my head.
It was not earwax so I've been on oral steroids for 6 days, but 0 change. Will get injections this week and MRI on the 22nd. Pressure tests were supposedly normal.
Again no concerts, blasting speakers, smoking, alcohol, etc.
I had something similar last year in my other ear but it lasted a few hours. I had vertigo time to time but it was positional. I have visual snow since October. And TMJ.
Has anyone else had sudden deafness and extreme reactive ringing? What can I do? How can I sleep?
I've never been to concerts, etc.. I stopped all headphone use except to protect my ears during flights.
The ringing was miserable and omnipresent but fluctuating and very hard to mask (could hear it clearly in planes but shower usually masked it).
7 days ago suddenly it felt like my right ear exploded in terms of blaring alarms and Morse code. When I turn on the shower or any song the ringing increases and is very easily heard.
It is now a constant low-frequency buzzing jet engine that reacts to everything, unmaskable and unignorable. It's so loud I sometimes can't hear the usual high-frequency ringing in my other ear.
The ear also seems deaf, out of absolutely nowhere.
When I breathe or move my arm I hear weird sounds like rubbing a violin. This happened during the hearing test, too - the white noise played in my good ear reflected in my deaf one.
When anyone talks there is a robotic crunch.
It feels like a buzzing and pulsing pressure suddenly appeared in the entire right side of my head.
It was not earwax so I've been on oral steroids for 6 days, but 0 change. Will get injections this week and MRI on the 22nd. Pressure tests were supposedly normal.
Again no concerts, blasting speakers, smoking, alcohol, etc.
I had something similar last year in my other ear but it lasted a few hours. I had vertigo time to time but it was positional. I have visual snow since October. And TMJ.
Has anyone else had sudden deafness and extreme reactive ringing? What can I do? How can I sleep?
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