Healing Time After Concert Sound Trauma?

[Aj1]

I went to 2 concerts one on November 8 and one on November 10. Next day right ear was sensitive to noise and felt blocked all week.

Saw a doctor at work and was given nasal spray and that cleared the blocked feeling good but was still a bit sensitive. Next day my left ear developed a ringing noise. Managed to get an appointment with an ENT doctor and was told it's due to sound trauma.

Anyway over the next few days the pressure feeling shifted from ear to ear causing horrible ringing in both ears.

Over the next few weeks my right ear seems to be back to normal. My left ear however was sensitive to certain noises like running water.

After a couple of weeks this did get better. I've also had tingling feeling in and under my ear but that's gone now. Now I'm stuck with the ringing and chirping noise in my ear and sometimes certain sounds don't sound right, for example people clapping will sound a lot poppier in my left ear.

Also in my left ear sometimes I'll get a slight pressure feeling without any loss of hearing. When I get this fullness feeling I can't even notice the tinnitus.

I've also noticed when I burp I get a fluttering noise in my left ear. I've had hearing tests and was told my hearing was fine for a 33 year old.

Tested it myself at home and in my left I can hear up to 16300 Hz and 18000 Hz right.

So I'm 8 weeks into this now, should I still be experiencing this fullness feeling and tinnitus or am I still in the healing time?

I'm not actually sure if I've got sound trauma or if it's TTTS or ETD :s

 

[Contrast]

Hello, Recent research indicates that hearing test used at most audiology clinics and ENTs are extremely inaccurate, they only test for hearing loss within the human voice range, learn more here about hidden hearing loss

http://hyperacusisfocus.org/innerear/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378595516302507

This can cause tinnitus, noise induced pain and trouble hearing and background noise and not show up on the audiogram.

 

[Bill Bauer]

So I'm 8 weeks into this now, should I still be experiencing this fullness feeling and tinnitus or am I still in the healing time?

It took about 6 months for my ear fullness to completely vanish. Your T might be fading for the next 2 years or even longer... Ears take forever to heal.

 

[Aj1]

Thanks for the replys. Was your ear fullness there all the time or was it on and off ?

 

[dpdx]

You have damaged your hearing, you have hearing loss now, it can get worse if you are not careful, avoid very loud sounds.

Also do a hearing exam up to 16khz, speech in noise, etc.

 

[Elfin]

Tinnitus never left me following a concert. The distorted hearing was a month or so.

Sound sensitivity is back and still here following another spike and a lot of stress

 

[Aj1]

You have damaged your hearing, you have hearing loss now, it can get worse if you are not careful, avoid very loud sounds.

Also do a hearing exam up to 16khz, speech in noise, etc.

I've downloaded a sound app and left I could hear up to 16300hz and right 18000hz

 

[Aj1]

Also just done this test and managed to hear all of it
https://vitals.lifehacker.com/try-this-test-for-hidden-hearing-loss-1793261946

 

[Bill Bauer]

Was your ear fullness there all the time or was it on and off ?

At first it was there all the time. Towards the end, it began to be on and off.

 

[R. David Case]

I went to 2 concerts one on November 8 and one on November 10. Next day right ear was sensitive to noise and felt blocked all week.

Saw a doctor at work and was given nasal spray and that cleared the blocked feeling good but was still a bit sensitive. Next day my left ear developed a ringing noise. Managed to get an appointment with an ENT doctor and was told it's due to sound trauma.

Anyway over the next few days the pressure feeling shifted from ear to ear causing horrible ringing in both ears.

Over the next few weeks my right ear seems to be back to normal. My left ear however was sensitive to certain noises like running water.

After a couple of weeks this did get better. I've also had tingling feeling in and under my ear but that's gone now. Now I'm stuck with the ringing and chirping noise in my ear and sometimes certain sounds don't sound right, for example people clapping will sound a lot poppier in my left ear.

Also in my left ear sometimes I'll get a slight pressure feeling without any loss of hearing. When I get this fullness feeling I can't even notice the tinnitus.

I've also noticed when I burp I get a fluttering noise in my left ear. I've had hearing tests and was told my hearing was fine for a 33 year old.

Tested it myself at home and in my left I can hear up to 16300 Hz and 18000 Hz right.

So I'm 8 weeks into this now, should I still be experiencing this fullness feeling and tinnitus or am I still in the healing time?

I'm not actually sure if I've got sound trauma or if it's TTTS or ETD :s

There is a new sound therapy for sound induced, it is free here at tinnitusmix.com -- you play it on headphones all night for 3 weeks. It has a high success rate of 50%. I have been tinnitus free for 18 years because of it.