- Apr 15, 2020
- 45
- Tinnitus Since
- 04/10/20
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Weed, Hidden Hearing Loss
Yesterday I was in the front passenger's seat of the car and someone called on the phone and my friend driving answered it and it played through the speakers. The person was talking and shouted the word "basket" as my friend was turning up the volume a lot and it was insanely loud. It must have been well over 100 decibels. My ears instantly hurt, I covered them and screamed. They instantly felt full and have been since then. We were going on a day trip and I felt car sick on the ride in an unusually intense way. When I was walking around that afternoon I felt really dizzy and nauseous. I basically had a little trouble walking. I've been having a certain tone of tinnitus on and off. Just a droning beep that I can mostly only hear with my ears plugged. It was really bad this morning when I woke up but maybe it was just from the beer that I had last night. (Must have been a bad idea.)
I came to this forum recently for issues in my left ear, and it turns out it was Meniere's disease. It felt good to get a diagnosis and I was ready to move past my tinnitus and onto other things. I'm getting testing done for neurological issues that I have and I wonder if they could be connected to my Meniere's. But now this happens, an awful loud sound completely unrelated and now I'm wondering if I really have hearing damage from acoustic trauma. Sounds and voices seem to be muffled, but I'm not really sensitive to loud noises. In fact I wonder if they sound quieter. It doesn't seem right. I guess the ENT is closed tomorrow so I'm planning to go on Tuesday. I'm really wondering if I'm supposed to get some Prednisone. How would I go about getting some if I really wanted to go to the ER today or tomorrow. How bad would it be to wait until Tuesday? I'm kinda worried everything will look fine and he'll send me off.
Is there a chance this is something like Acoustic Shock and it will pass? Maybe by the time Tuesday rolls around I'm hoping my symptoms will have lessened anyway. But I'm worried that the nerves in my inners ears are burning as we speak. I'm taking NGCG, magnesium, turmeric, ginkgo biloba, NAC. Should I try to get Prednisone? What if my ENT says I don't need it?
I came to this forum recently for issues in my left ear, and it turns out it was Meniere's disease. It felt good to get a diagnosis and I was ready to move past my tinnitus and onto other things. I'm getting testing done for neurological issues that I have and I wonder if they could be connected to my Meniere's. But now this happens, an awful loud sound completely unrelated and now I'm wondering if I really have hearing damage from acoustic trauma. Sounds and voices seem to be muffled, but I'm not really sensitive to loud noises. In fact I wonder if they sound quieter. It doesn't seem right. I guess the ENT is closed tomorrow so I'm planning to go on Tuesday. I'm really wondering if I'm supposed to get some Prednisone. How would I go about getting some if I really wanted to go to the ER today or tomorrow. How bad would it be to wait until Tuesday? I'm kinda worried everything will look fine and he'll send me off.
Is there a chance this is something like Acoustic Shock and it will pass? Maybe by the time Tuesday rolls around I'm hoping my symptoms will have lessened anyway. But I'm worried that the nerves in my inners ears are burning as we speak. I'm taking NGCG, magnesium, turmeric, ginkgo biloba, NAC. Should I try to get Prednisone? What if my ENT says I don't need it?