Hi all. I got tinnitus about 2 months ago. Not 100% certain where it came from. I just remember my right ear feeling full for a few days and then suddenly waking up with the ear ringing which progressively got worse over a few days.
I went to my local doctor and he told me to just wait a month. After a few days, I took it on to see an ENT. Good thing I did, because I believe I caught it within the window of time where steroids can help. I was prescribed a regimen of Prednisone for 2 weeks. One week in, the ENT gave me another hearing test and my hearing had improved. After coming off the Prednisone, I woke up on New Year's Day and couldn't hear out of my right ear at all. Literally snapping my fingers and just feeling the vibration. By the time I got to the emergency room, my hearing came back a little bit. They gave me a CT scan and found nothing.
My tinnitus is still here and no doctors have found anything yet. Just curious, does the full ear feeling ever go away? I still have that, along with some hearing loss (another hearing exam next week to determine how bad).
It's just so frustrating at this point. I end up sleeping on the sofa because I have a lot of sleepless nights and don't want to pull my wife into this issue.
I don't have any associated dizziness at all and I am in my mid-40s, but this is likely not Ménière's disease.
Any thoughts or recommendations would really help.
I went to my local doctor and he told me to just wait a month. After a few days, I took it on to see an ENT. Good thing I did, because I believe I caught it within the window of time where steroids can help. I was prescribed a regimen of Prednisone for 2 weeks. One week in, the ENT gave me another hearing test and my hearing had improved. After coming off the Prednisone, I woke up on New Year's Day and couldn't hear out of my right ear at all. Literally snapping my fingers and just feeling the vibration. By the time I got to the emergency room, my hearing came back a little bit. They gave me a CT scan and found nothing.
My tinnitus is still here and no doctors have found anything yet. Just curious, does the full ear feeling ever go away? I still have that, along with some hearing loss (another hearing exam next week to determine how bad).
It's just so frustrating at this point. I end up sleeping on the sofa because I have a lot of sleepless nights and don't want to pull my wife into this issue.
I don't have any associated dizziness at all and I am in my mid-40s, but this is likely not Ménière's disease.
Any thoughts or recommendations would really help.
