A short summary:
I first got tinnitus in 2013 following an ear infection, a low high pitched tone in my left ear. In 2016 it got worse while on a course of antibiotics, a louder ringing in my right ear too, I also got a mild noise sensitivity in my right ear, but it kind of crept up on me over a few months when I started noticing that some sounds like children's voices felt uncomfortable in my ear.
I learned to live with it as most of us do.
Fast forward to October 2019.
I took a new medicine for just a few weeks that made my sensitivity and tinnitus a bit more troublesome, I quit the medicine and it was better for a couple of weeks. Then I was sitting with my girlfriend in the car and we had a fight, I could feel my right ear hurt but stupid as I was I continued the arguing, but covering my ears some of the time. After this I have gotten extremely sensitive to sounds and I can´t even stand my own voice or being around people anymore. I do of course meet people but it is just no fun anymore. I can´t relax.
I am right now trying to understand what is causing my symptoms and have been reading up on hyperacusis, tensor tympani and all that.
I am gonna list my symptoms and maybe you guys can help me figure it out.
*All sounds are loud, especially high pitched sounds, and also bassy sounds feels like a pressure wave. Soothing sounds are kitchen fan at low effect and the shower, those sounds don´t seem to have the troublesome frequencies.
*But even more troublesome is the fact that the sounds are bouncing in my right ear. It feels like something in the ear is reacting to sounds, a millisecond after the sound appear the ear reacts. It almost feels like someone is poking me in the ear with a stick or something, or a tickling in the ear. I have a little of this in my left ear but mostly in the right one.
*The sounds are vibrating in the right ear and even my own voice does this. If I hold my hand right at the bottom of my right ear and push gently the vibrating stops, then I can talk without as much discomfort.
I can hardly communicate because I can´t concentrate because of the loudness of my own voice in the right ear, and in the whole of my head the voice is so loud. If I sit and talk to people for a while I get sore in the ear and it starts to tickle and even itch. And talking on the phone, no thanks, those bad speakers are the worst.
*I can´t stand peoples voices and the sound of a voice when it breaks into some frequencies and/or sound level, it burrs almost like a cracked amplifier, especially in the right ear.
*I get a dull kind of pain, but it´s not intense and often goes down if it´s quiet for a while. But there is some kind of painy feeling right in the outer ear most of the time.
*I also have the clogging feeling, or more like I have a thin membrane in the ear that all sound has to pass. And since this got worse the tinnitus is "competing" more with sounds that come into my ears.
*When I yawn there is a lot of clicking and crackling in both ears. When I swallow there is a sound like a whip almost, really loud. I can hear it even if i am in mall or something like that.
*Sometimes I can feel air going in my ear while I breath, but not most of the time.
What do you think is the cause of my symptoms? It is something more than just the sounds being loud, with the "reaction" in my right ear I mean. Can it be TTTS? Open ear trumpet?
I first got tinnitus in 2013 following an ear infection, a low high pitched tone in my left ear. In 2016 it got worse while on a course of antibiotics, a louder ringing in my right ear too, I also got a mild noise sensitivity in my right ear, but it kind of crept up on me over a few months when I started noticing that some sounds like children's voices felt uncomfortable in my ear.
I learned to live with it as most of us do.
Fast forward to October 2019.
I took a new medicine for just a few weeks that made my sensitivity and tinnitus a bit more troublesome, I quit the medicine and it was better for a couple of weeks. Then I was sitting with my girlfriend in the car and we had a fight, I could feel my right ear hurt but stupid as I was I continued the arguing, but covering my ears some of the time. After this I have gotten extremely sensitive to sounds and I can´t even stand my own voice or being around people anymore. I do of course meet people but it is just no fun anymore. I can´t relax.
I am right now trying to understand what is causing my symptoms and have been reading up on hyperacusis, tensor tympani and all that.
I am gonna list my symptoms and maybe you guys can help me figure it out.
*All sounds are loud, especially high pitched sounds, and also bassy sounds feels like a pressure wave. Soothing sounds are kitchen fan at low effect and the shower, those sounds don´t seem to have the troublesome frequencies.
*But even more troublesome is the fact that the sounds are bouncing in my right ear. It feels like something in the ear is reacting to sounds, a millisecond after the sound appear the ear reacts. It almost feels like someone is poking me in the ear with a stick or something, or a tickling in the ear. I have a little of this in my left ear but mostly in the right one.
*The sounds are vibrating in the right ear and even my own voice does this. If I hold my hand right at the bottom of my right ear and push gently the vibrating stops, then I can talk without as much discomfort.
I can hardly communicate because I can´t concentrate because of the loudness of my own voice in the right ear, and in the whole of my head the voice is so loud. If I sit and talk to people for a while I get sore in the ear and it starts to tickle and even itch. And talking on the phone, no thanks, those bad speakers are the worst.
*I can´t stand peoples voices and the sound of a voice when it breaks into some frequencies and/or sound level, it burrs almost like a cracked amplifier, especially in the right ear.
*I get a dull kind of pain, but it´s not intense and often goes down if it´s quiet for a while. But there is some kind of painy feeling right in the outer ear most of the time.
*I also have the clogging feeling, or more like I have a thin membrane in the ear that all sound has to pass. And since this got worse the tinnitus is "competing" more with sounds that come into my ears.
*When I yawn there is a lot of clicking and crackling in both ears. When I swallow there is a sound like a whip almost, really loud. I can hear it even if i am in mall or something like that.
*Sometimes I can feel air going in my ear while I breath, but not most of the time.
What do you think is the cause of my symptoms? It is something more than just the sounds being loud, with the "reaction" in my right ear I mean. Can it be TTTS? Open ear trumpet?
