Did Anyone Else Have Ear Fullness Last for Months After Acoustic Trauma?

My ear fullness and hyperacusis ended about six months after my acoustic trauma...

 

I've had these ear problems since March, 4 days after the Tinnitus began. Earache and vertigo, and I'm not sure if it was the constant stress in those 4 days which caused it. The earache and dizziness has gone but still left with the ear popping/crackling/clogging.

 

Hi Bill,

Did the ear fullness seem to leave when the hyperacusis left? I feel the hyperacusis might be keeping mine there.

 

For a month after I got my T I had ear fullness, and hyperacusis lasted maybe a couple weeks total(I would hear very high pitched chirps from appliances and such). I had fluid in my ears for two weeks, which was part of the fullness probably, and I always attributed the H to the fluid. I had a decent amount of time w/o H while still having fullness(though the fullness wasn't as bad) so I don't know if fullness really goes with H in my estimation.

 

If I remember correctly, first ear fullness was gone and then hyperacusis stopped really bothering me.

 

In my 4th month now. After acoustic trauma I had ear fullness every morning, and it would typically subside with 1-3 hours. For the past few weeks I haven't been getting it in the mornings anymore, and if I do it's very mild and goes away within 30 minutes. I might get it temporarily after a workout.

I agree with some of the posters that it may be an inflamed muscle issue. I could have been getting it in the morning because the sleeping position was aggravating the muscle. Same with workouts.

 

I had exposure to noise recently and my fullness spiked again along with tinnitus. Fullness is very bad now. Given that it's 24/7 for me and previously had never resolved, I'm considering futher options now like carbamazepine, anesthetic injections into wisdom teeth locations from dental office for short term relief and botox injection later on if possible. Botox injections are gonna be hard to do in my country, chances of finding a doctor familiar with delivering injections into middle ear or eustachian tube muscles are very remote.

My fullness is in both ears, in one ear it's worse than another, but this can travel from one ear to another, so the problem is not in the ear itself. Something wrong with the brain center which controls the muscle tone it seems.

I have experienced ear clicking and eardrum vibrating a few times before the most recent worsening, but these were very episodic events and it didn't stick with me. Curiously, when there was clicking or vibrations, the fullness maintained the same intesity, so probably these are eustachian tube muscles which misfire in my case.

I had taken clonazepam and baclofen over the years to access their effects on my fullness, but they did nothing.

 

Forgot to mention that my fullness has always been on right side.

 

Are you sure those are not ototoxic? Making it worse is the last thing you want to do...

 

Do you think high sugar foods make this worse?

 

I had more than a dozen fillings and a crown done over last two years. Nothing adverse so far.

For me food doesn't affect it. Stress and fatigue - they do.

 

Hi! How long did you have your ear fullness before it went away? I’m now on month ten with fullness. I guess it’s improved from the onset but still hoping it will continue to go away. It’s so hard to deal with some days.

 

After about a year, it was mostly gone...

If it has improved, there is no reason for it to not continue to improve. There is still a reasonable chance that a year from now you will be feeling better than you are feeling now.

 

Thank you. The loud crackling is also hard. I use Otovent to help the pressure. What tips do you have if any?

 

Sounds like you are suffering from TTTS - tonic tensor tympani syndrome.

You will find some tips about how to not make things worse, in the post below...
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...eone-else-who-has-tinnitus.26850/#post-307822

 

How is your tinnitus now?

 

Mine seems to de disappearing after a whole year. Not a couple of months.

How is your hearing. Is it distorted or normal?

 

Normal.

 

Did it used to be distorted? Bro you are blessed, you don't even know. I hope I'll get there soon again so I can hear music the right way again.

 

did you have pain hyperacusis?

 

I had an issue with a concert in June and I’m still having the feeling of fullness in my ears. It’ll clear up for a few hours during the day on occasion, but that’s it really. Mornings feel the worst

 

Hi Bill - Did the fullness leave all at once, or did it fade gradually over days/weeks toward the end of the 6 months? Anything you did that helped, other than giving it time?

 

I’m on my 2nd week since my acoustic trauma incident. A friend’s child I was holding decided to scream as loud as she could directly in my left ear. Ear fullness was the most prominent symptom after the incident.

5 days post incident, I started on Prednisone at the recommendation of the ENT after they saw mild hearing loss as a result of the trauma.

What scares me is that the ringing started and things got worse a week into the Prednisone treatment! My ear fullness is at an all time high.

When I pop my ear, I do get relief for about 2-3 seconds, but the ringing is getting worse.

Curious if this is just the inflammation. Would love to hear other people’s experiences.

 

Jay, I totally have that too. In fact, all my problems began with ear fullness, and feeling like I had fluid in there (which in fact I do, according to the ENT.) I learned to pop my ears and it helps, but not nearly enough. The ENT gave me Prednisone and two nose sprays, but I am reluctant to do it for fear it could make things worse. She says my ears produce too much moisture, and the Eustachian tubes cannot drain it so fast. Why? As a response to common irritants, she says. But then, why is my body responding so to common irritants?

 

I developed ear fullness in my left ear and dysacusis in both ears. I got my ears checked and there was nothing inside either of them.

The ear fullness went away after 2 weeks but the dysacusis remained.

 

Hi,

I experienced acoustic trauma at a music festival, two and a half months ago.

I have still got aural fullness in my left ear.

Would anyone have thoughts on whether this is likely to go away?

The ENT doctor said that it was probably a strained stapedius muscle, and suggested that it could resolve.

It would be good for the feeling of fullness to go.

 

When I had my first acoustic trauma and tinnitus started as a result, I didn't have any ear fullness. But after the next episode of my hyperacusis, about 1.5 years after the tinnitus started, I felt migrating ear fullness - some time in one ear, some time in another. It resolved quite quickly - in a week or a bit more.