Hi Guys,
I am 38-year-old male based in the Netherlands. I first heard very mild tinnitus in February 2021 on a snowy day, when playing with kids outside, however, in 2 days, it was gone.
Then after two weeks, I was at a get together, and all of a sudden, I felt a sharp pain in my right ear, and I felt voices were a bit loud. I thought OK!, I stepped away, and next day it was all OK again.
Then again after a week, I was at friend's place setting up his Hi-Fi system and I would say that we played some songs for few seconds here and there to check the quality of speakers and again I felt a sharp pain in my right ear and it also got red. In the night I felt a mild tone in the right ear again in night in the quiet room. I don't remember if it was same as the three weeks earlier, so I scheduled an appointment with GP and she said that there is quite some wax and that should be an issue. They did water irrigation and indeed some wax was removed. Thereafter, they said to wait for 2 weeks. Nothing really changed except some aural fullness in each ear (on and off); I had the same mild tone for the two weeks. I then visited an ENT, luckily got the appointment instantly, they checked my hearing and the doctor said that, well now I have read this on the forum from many others as well, that I have a perfect hearing. In fact he said, I have an hearing of an 18-year-old. He said, it will go away, when he cant say. Don't worry!
However, a week thereafter, things started in my left ear too, and now it has been six months, with hiss, sometimes high, sometimes low that I feel in my head in fact more than in my ears. The tone from where it all started sometimes is not there for days, and then comes again and goes missing again. Sometimes I feel few days are good, very mild. Sometimes it is very bad, meaning very high electrical hiss, almost seems like cutting through head, headaches, etc. When it is hissing in head, I don't much feel in ears until I put that side of the face on the pillow and then I feel it kind of transferred from the head to the ear and the other ear feels OK and if I turn the other side, it is again on the other side in a few seconds. Strange?
I don't know what to expect in future, sometimes I get optimistic and sometimes very negative. I tried dentist, I don't think it is TMJ, but I tried the mouth guard, but I don't think it makes any difference, it is the same cycle. I have taken a couple of physical therapy sessions for neck, however, that also didn't help. I am also quite confused, how being at a get together can cause such ear pain to begin with. I am an audiophile, but I rarely listen on headphones, may be when I was young and pre-pandemic times (on evening walks - but not very loud for sure all the time) but even then not for whole day, etc. So, however, I am not able to point it to a cause, other than Noise.
I have read so many posts in last 5 months on this portal. It really keeps me going with all the success stories. And some of you, I have been following on a daily basis, for instance, @Vassili , @Michael Leigh, @Christiaan, @Bill Bauer, @aura, @jjflyman, @Greg Sacramento and many more... I have taken many precautions by reading posts of you guys. Thanks a ton. Looking forward to sharing my journey with you guys!
I am 38-year-old male based in the Netherlands. I first heard very mild tinnitus in February 2021 on a snowy day, when playing with kids outside, however, in 2 days, it was gone.
Then after two weeks, I was at a get together, and all of a sudden, I felt a sharp pain in my right ear, and I felt voices were a bit loud. I thought OK!, I stepped away, and next day it was all OK again.
Then again after a week, I was at friend's place setting up his Hi-Fi system and I would say that we played some songs for few seconds here and there to check the quality of speakers and again I felt a sharp pain in my right ear and it also got red. In the night I felt a mild tone in the right ear again in night in the quiet room. I don't remember if it was same as the three weeks earlier, so I scheduled an appointment with GP and she said that there is quite some wax and that should be an issue. They did water irrigation and indeed some wax was removed. Thereafter, they said to wait for 2 weeks. Nothing really changed except some aural fullness in each ear (on and off); I had the same mild tone for the two weeks. I then visited an ENT, luckily got the appointment instantly, they checked my hearing and the doctor said that, well now I have read this on the forum from many others as well, that I have a perfect hearing. In fact he said, I have an hearing of an 18-year-old. He said, it will go away, when he cant say. Don't worry!
However, a week thereafter, things started in my left ear too, and now it has been six months, with hiss, sometimes high, sometimes low that I feel in my head in fact more than in my ears. The tone from where it all started sometimes is not there for days, and then comes again and goes missing again. Sometimes I feel few days are good, very mild. Sometimes it is very bad, meaning very high electrical hiss, almost seems like cutting through head, headaches, etc. When it is hissing in head, I don't much feel in ears until I put that side of the face on the pillow and then I feel it kind of transferred from the head to the ear and the other ear feels OK and if I turn the other side, it is again on the other side in a few seconds. Strange?
I don't know what to expect in future, sometimes I get optimistic and sometimes very negative. I tried dentist, I don't think it is TMJ, but I tried the mouth guard, but I don't think it makes any difference, it is the same cycle. I have taken a couple of physical therapy sessions for neck, however, that also didn't help. I am also quite confused, how being at a get together can cause such ear pain to begin with. I am an audiophile, but I rarely listen on headphones, may be when I was young and pre-pandemic times (on evening walks - but not very loud for sure all the time) but even then not for whole day, etc. So, however, I am not able to point it to a cause, other than Noise.
I have read so many posts in last 5 months on this portal. It really keeps me going with all the success stories. And some of you, I have been following on a daily basis, for instance, @Vassili , @Michael Leigh, @Christiaan, @Bill Bauer, @aura, @jjflyman, @Greg Sacramento and many more... I have taken many precautions by reading posts of you guys. Thanks a ton. Looking forward to sharing my journey with you guys!
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