Hello guys. I'm 29 and unfortunately on this forum now due to a recent tinnitus development. My Tinnitus started about a month-ish ago. It started from pressure behind my ears that wouldn't clear. It felt like I couldn't pop my ears and eventually led to a slight ringing developing one day. I got a pretty quick ENT appointment within a week of this due to a cancellation and was looking for some answers. I took a couple tests and he said I had no significant hearing loss and diagnosed me with "Dynamic Eustachian Tubes" (a condition I could find no recollection of online). He told me to take Flonase/Sudafed and it should clear up.
For the next couple of days I took Flonase/Sufafed and it seemed to clear up most of the ringing (I'd say like almost no ringing while the drugs were in effect). I was at work and the ringing started to come back and being pretty early on into this thing, it was giving me extreme anxiety so I looked up some Eustachian Tube exercise videos for perhaps temporary relief. One of them had a Valsalva Technique and I did this a little too forcefully trying to make my right ear pop. I didn't notice any immediate pain or dizziness, but later that night I remember a little bit of pain in that ear and noticing that Sudafed didn't totally silence my ringing like it had. I went to an urgent care the next day and she didn't notice an eardrum perforation, but she gave me a shot of Methylprednisone and sent me off.
I guess it's been about a month since then and I noticed the right ear is still acting weird where it's residually ringing compared to my left which I can get to be quiet with Flonase and Sudafed. I scheduled another ENT appointment after calling around to some offices within my area and found an opening that I went to a couple days ago. My audio gram showed all normal hearing up to 8000 Hz being above the 20 dB range except for a slight dip to 25 dB around 1000 Hz. I mentioned the failed Valsalva to my ENT and she dismissed me saying it's impossible to cause tinnitus with that and printed off a packet of info and sent me off.
I still believe I could have given myself some inner or middle ear barotrauma with that Valsalva technique. The ringing itself isn't too noticeable during the day unless I'm in a quiet environment after taking Flonase and sometimes Sudafed. It also spikes immediately in my right ear if I lie down and adds additional tones, these tones clear up within seconds when I stand up and goes back to a faint ringing. I notice a clear fluid discharge in my right ear pretty much daily as well.
Does anyone on here have any experience like this? I feel really stupid about doing that Valsalva still and try not to beat myself up over it too much mentally :/
For the next couple of days I took Flonase/Sufafed and it seemed to clear up most of the ringing (I'd say like almost no ringing while the drugs were in effect). I was at work and the ringing started to come back and being pretty early on into this thing, it was giving me extreme anxiety so I looked up some Eustachian Tube exercise videos for perhaps temporary relief. One of them had a Valsalva Technique and I did this a little too forcefully trying to make my right ear pop. I didn't notice any immediate pain or dizziness, but later that night I remember a little bit of pain in that ear and noticing that Sudafed didn't totally silence my ringing like it had. I went to an urgent care the next day and she didn't notice an eardrum perforation, but she gave me a shot of Methylprednisone and sent me off.
I guess it's been about a month since then and I noticed the right ear is still acting weird where it's residually ringing compared to my left which I can get to be quiet with Flonase and Sudafed. I scheduled another ENT appointment after calling around to some offices within my area and found an opening that I went to a couple days ago. My audio gram showed all normal hearing up to 8000 Hz being above the 20 dB range except for a slight dip to 25 dB around 1000 Hz. I mentioned the failed Valsalva to my ENT and she dismissed me saying it's impossible to cause tinnitus with that and printed off a packet of info and sent me off.
I still believe I could have given myself some inner or middle ear barotrauma with that Valsalva technique. The ringing itself isn't too noticeable during the day unless I'm in a quiet environment after taking Flonase and sometimes Sudafed. It also spikes immediately in my right ear if I lie down and adds additional tones, these tones clear up within seconds when I stand up and goes back to a faint ringing. I notice a clear fluid discharge in my right ear pretty much daily as well.
Does anyone on here have any experience like this? I feel really stupid about doing that Valsalva still and try not to beat myself up over it too much mentally :/
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