Can a Spike Appear with a Delay After Sound Exposure?

I have tinnitus and hyperacusis, and today I was exposed to a loud sound (the ringing of the doorbell of my house), it was only for 3-4 secs while I was quickly walking downstairs while hearing it. I was approx. 2 meters average away from it but I felt extremely annoyed by it.

Right now my tinnitus feels more or less the same as before of this incident, maybe a little bit louder but I'm not sure.

In the past I have suffered a spike that appeared 24 hours after the exposure and not right after... how much time can pass, at a maximum, to discard a spike from that incident?

Thank you.

 

For most people it happens immediately after the exposure.

 

Yes, it can. In fact my initial acoustic trauma caused a delayed onset of tinnitus (a couple days later).

My theory for that is that sometimes the nerve connections can get damaged, but they don't die off until later. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2812055/

That being said, I don't think your doorbell would cause any damage. I've had several similar loud incidents today.

 

Not according to my Audiologist, he says there is no delay or lag, it happens on the spot. I DISAGREE with him. My spikes always happened 8 hours after exposure.

 

Hope youre well

 

I know for sure nerves can degenerate and die off slowly following an acoustic trauma depending on the level of damage. That was demonstrated in the paper I linked above. As far as spikes, whatever causes them, I'm not sure.


I had a loud sound next to my ear in a meeting early this morning. I was sitting in the back of the meeting next to the computer and speakers and I thought I had turned the volume down when I accidentally turned it all the way up. When someone had an error message come up on the presentation computer it made a loud prompt sound not more that 6 inches away from my ear. I'm not so much worried about that incident as I am about the double ear infection I found out I have today. Sorry, off topic I know. It's been a bad day for me lol.

 

Yep! I get delayed spikes sometimes. Not always but I get them.
Both T and H spikes.