MemberHi! For the last 10 days I have been on holidays. Unfortunately, what was supposed to be helping me relaxing from tinnitus made it worse 
I had to take a long flight (and one back home of course) and thanks to the several suggestions I found on this forum I could minimise any side effect. I used airplane earplugs during ascend and descend phases, a nasal decongestionant and a combination of foam earplugs, earmuff and noise canceling headphones. I just noticed that my left ear had some troubles equalising the pressure during descend even though I forced the eustachian tubes to be open by chewing, yawning, swallowing and gently performing Valsalva maneuver. The left ear stayed a bit clogged for few hours after the flights but then it popped by itself.
The real problem instead is T which spiked one night after I have been exposed to moderate noise (city centre noise) for a couple of hours even though i was wearing protection. According to the app on my phone the noise was around 75db. The spike was pretty bad as I wake up in the middle of the night having also dizziness and nausea as side effect which stay for the next day as well. H increased a lot as well after I was gradually getting better from it. The spike did not subside for the whole holidays and in addition to that yesterday night, after being returned home, T spiked even more. I can ear a new tone in the right ear (which was supposed to be the good ear) with a feeling of fullness too.
I had some spikes in the last few months, but it was basically the same tone higher in loudness. I have not experienced new tones in a spike and I am sure that the fear of a new damage is not helping at all. I hate the unpredictability of T! After sleeping after the long flight I woke up and I was feeling really good and T was much less than normal! Perhaps the happiness of being on holidays was stronger than T itself...
I am not sure if I am clearly doing something wrong with the way I handle T but it seems that every time I try to get back with my normal life I make it worse. On the contrary, if I live like an eremite, avoiding any potential danger situation, I get depressed and I perceive T more.
I had to take a long flight (and one back home of course) and thanks to the several suggestions I found on this forum I could minimise any side effect. I used airplane earplugs during ascend and descend phases, a nasal decongestionant and a combination of foam earplugs, earmuff and noise canceling headphones. I just noticed that my left ear had some troubles equalising the pressure during descend even though I forced the eustachian tubes to be open by chewing, yawning, swallowing and gently performing Valsalva maneuver. The left ear stayed a bit clogged for few hours after the flights but then it popped by itself.
The real problem instead is T which spiked one night after I have been exposed to moderate noise (city centre noise) for a couple of hours even though i was wearing protection. According to the app on my phone the noise was around 75db. The spike was pretty bad as I wake up in the middle of the night having also dizziness and nausea as side effect which stay for the next day as well. H increased a lot as well after I was gradually getting better from it. The spike did not subside for the whole holidays and in addition to that yesterday night, after being returned home, T spiked even more. I can ear a new tone in the right ear (which was supposed to be the good ear) with a feeling of fullness too.
I had some spikes in the last few months, but it was basically the same tone higher in loudness. I have not experienced new tones in a spike and I am sure that the fear of a new damage is not helping at all. I hate the unpredictability of T! After sleeping after the long flight I woke up and I was feeling really good and T was much less than normal! Perhaps the happiness of being on holidays was stronger than T itself...
I am not sure if I am clearly doing something wrong with the way I handle T but it seems that every time I try to get back with my normal life I make it worse. On the contrary, if I live like an eremite, avoiding any potential danger situation, I get depressed and I perceive T more.
