ACOUSTIC TRAUMA EMERGENCY: Exposed to Fire Cracker Indoors

Just over an hour ago I was playing computer games while someone threw a firecracker 5 meters away from me.

I immediately lost hearing, which then came back a few seconds after the noise exposure.

Of course I had a fight with the person.

After that I went to get prednisone. I took 100 mg.

Tinnitus is 50% louder. No ear pain. Still some slight hearing loss.

What should I do next?

 

Take some NAC, take some chelated magnesium. Melatonin tonight. And Nicotinamide Riboside if possible. This is if you have all these on you.

 

Who the hell would do this???

 

Go to an Otologist, Request Neurotrophin-3 and BDNF be injected into your cochlear via round window to prevent massive damage causing cochlear synaptopathy (synapse death) from noxious noise trauma.


Neurotrophin-3 regulates ribbon synapse density in the cochlea and induces synapse regeneration after acoustic trauma
https://elifesciences.org/articles/03564
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep24907


Oh wait, I forgot we are living in the shitty year 2019 and these medicines are not yet FDA approved and research still has to compete with dogma.

Well you can try this.

Oral magnesium intake reduces permanent hearing loss induced by noise exposure.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8135325


Better get ready for those apathetic audiologist visits, paying for TRT, and the roller coaster of emotions. Eventually you'll habituate like everyone on /r/tinnitus.

 

After taking magnesium.

Get a lawyer, sue that person for he is responsible for damaging your hearing. Donate all the reward money to hearing loss regeneration research. Stick around on the forum and take part in our criticism of audiologists, TRT, and normies that learn to live with hearing deficits.

 

Horrible.

 

I would have recommended Deflazacort instead of Prednisone, but now you shouldnt try Deflazacort, because you are already on prednisone and these drugs may interact, so you cannot take both.

Anyway no drug can really help. Try to be strict with diet these days, fruit, green tea, garlic, onion, vegetables etc It does make a difference. Try to stay away from sugar cigarettes, alcoholic drinks, and junk food in general.

 

Deflazacort and Prednisone have the same effect.

 

Yes, but they are not the same drug, or work exactly the same. In my case prednisone does nothing at all, deflazacort, almost nothing, but a little bit better effect. Anyway, as I said before, these drugs cannot really fix hyperacusis.

 

Sorry to year it didn't fix it for you.

In my case I've had a similar sound exposure to a fire cracker, I took prednisone for 2 weeks, it's the only thing that made my condition go back to what it was.