Hello everyone!
I developed tinnitus one month ago. I'm not sure if it was noise induced or due to fluid in the ears. Two different GPs saw fluids in my ears, but, I saw an ENT two days ago and they said I had nothing. The ENT believes my tinnitus was noise induced and sent me on my way without any support.
Honestly, the ENT visit was so stressful that it sent me into a spike which is just starting to lessen. Before seeing the ENT, the tinnitus in my right ear was gone, and now it reappeared I don't have hearing loss though, which is good news, except for a 20 dB loss in bone conduction at 2000 Hz.
Anyway, I have a ringing sound in my left ear and a static noise (going from low to very high pitched) in my right. It is quieter in the morning and gets worse throughout the day. It changed a lot throughout the month, and I feel it's quieter and less intrusive now than two weeks ago.
I've noticed that when I sleep on one side, the tinnitus gets worse. And by worse, I mean new sounds appear. For example, if I sleep on my right side, I get a ultrasound level high pitched squeal in my right ear instead of the static and the ringing in my left ear almost disappears.
I've also noticed that isolating myself from noise with earplugs makes the tinnitus way more bearable, too. For example, earplugs makes all the ultra high pitched sound disappear!
Reading Tinnitus Talk, I've come to understand that tinnitus is capricious, but this seems in contradiction with all the posts I've read. Do some of you also experience this?
I developed tinnitus one month ago. I'm not sure if it was noise induced or due to fluid in the ears. Two different GPs saw fluids in my ears, but, I saw an ENT two days ago and they said I had nothing. The ENT believes my tinnitus was noise induced and sent me on my way without any support.
Honestly, the ENT visit was so stressful that it sent me into a spike which is just starting to lessen. Before seeing the ENT, the tinnitus in my right ear was gone, and now it reappeared I don't have hearing loss though, which is good news, except for a 20 dB loss in bone conduction at 2000 Hz.
Anyway, I have a ringing sound in my left ear and a static noise (going from low to very high pitched) in my right. It is quieter in the morning and gets worse throughout the day. It changed a lot throughout the month, and I feel it's quieter and less intrusive now than two weeks ago.
I've noticed that when I sleep on one side, the tinnitus gets worse. And by worse, I mean new sounds appear. For example, if I sleep on my right side, I get a ultrasound level high pitched squeal in my right ear instead of the static and the ringing in my left ear almost disappears.
I've also noticed that isolating myself from noise with earplugs makes the tinnitus way more bearable, too. For example, earplugs makes all the ultra high pitched sound disappear!
Reading Tinnitus Talk, I've come to understand that tinnitus is capricious, but this seems in contradiction with all the posts I've read. Do some of you also experience this?