Hey all,
I've been experiencing tinnitus since late September of last year and it's been a wild ride so far. I panicked for much of the first two weeks and overtime eventually began to actually habituate to the sound, which was admittedly very easy to mask.
On New Years Day about a week ago, I decided to go snowboarding with some friends. I sat in the back in my friend's car, and at one point he turned the volume up very high (I don't think it was all the way up but it was pretty close). I told him to turn it down after about fifteen seconds but I didn't even cover my ears in that whole time.
My ears felt stuffy and strange for about six days afterwards (they feel pretty normal again now) but I'm left with a louder version of my old tinnitus with some new tones that appear when I try to mask it. I suffer from hyperacusis and reactive tinnitus that was definitely getting a lot better until this happened. It's still not incredibly bad, but it's definitely worse than before - do you all think this is something that will go back down again to what I had previously in a few weeks? I'm so upset with myself for allowing my ears to be exposed to such a major sound level.
I should add that my ears did not ring violently after the noise exposure (the sudden kind that lasts 5-10 seconds) and still have not done so, to my surprise. Dunno if that helps at all or not.
I've been experiencing tinnitus since late September of last year and it's been a wild ride so far. I panicked for much of the first two weeks and overtime eventually began to actually habituate to the sound, which was admittedly very easy to mask.
On New Years Day about a week ago, I decided to go snowboarding with some friends. I sat in the back in my friend's car, and at one point he turned the volume up very high (I don't think it was all the way up but it was pretty close). I told him to turn it down after about fifteen seconds but I didn't even cover my ears in that whole time.
My ears felt stuffy and strange for about six days afterwards (they feel pretty normal again now) but I'm left with a louder version of my old tinnitus with some new tones that appear when I try to mask it. I suffer from hyperacusis and reactive tinnitus that was definitely getting a lot better until this happened. It's still not incredibly bad, but it's definitely worse than before - do you all think this is something that will go back down again to what I had previously in a few weeks? I'm so upset with myself for allowing my ears to be exposed to such a major sound level.
I should add that my ears did not ring violently after the noise exposure (the sudden kind that lasts 5-10 seconds) and still have not done so, to my surprise. Dunno if that helps at all or not.
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