High Frequency Tinnitus Going to the Right Ear After a Clerk Dropped Some Metal Parts on the Floor

[Eric N]

I had an unlucky incident 2 weeks ago when I was returning an appliance, the clerk dropped some metal parts on the floor while I had my earmuffs off and it made a loud sound like pans falling, 3 days later I started noticing a high pitch hissing sound that has started to go to my right ear as well.

Has anyone had similar incidents? Did anyone have pans falling hard next to them?

 

[Bill Bauer]

Did anyone have pans falling hard next to them?

I've had a heavy metal door slam into a metal frame about 2 meters away from me. I had a spike that ended up being temporary.

 

[Eric N]

I don't think this is going to be temporary, I'm even getting more fleeting tinnitus in my right ear maybe it's a sign damage has been done. I'm shocked at my bad luck

 

[JohnAdams]

I don't think this is going to be temporary, I'm even getting more fleeting tinnitus in my right ear maybe it's a sign damage has been done. I'm shocked at my bad luck

you're still in the acute stage of your new damage. I'm no doctor but I suggest you seek out an ENT to give you intratympanic injections of dexamethasone RIGHT NOW. Like NOW.

 

[Eric N]

you're still in the acute stage of your new damage. I'm no doctor but I suggest you seek out an ENT to give you intratympanic injections of dexamethasone RIGHT NOW. Like NOW.

Finding an ENT that will do this in Canada is almost impossible, I have some prednisone but I am not convinced.

Can dropping a metal object really cause permanent damage? this is very hard to believe

 

[JohnAdams]

Finding an ENT that will do this in Canada is almost impossible, I have some prednisone but I am not convinced.

Can dropping a metal object really cause permanent damage? this is very hard to believe

That all depends on how susceptible you were and how loud the noise was.

I may be falsely under the impression that this is a routine procedure in America and Canada. Is it not something ENTs do???

 

[Eric N]

That all depends on how susceptible you were and how loud the noise was.

I may be falsely under the impression that this is a routine procedure in America and Canada. Is it not something ENTs do???

Maybe in America, I had a hard time getting prednisone from one of the many ENTs I have seen over the years.

 

[JohnAdams]

Maybe in America, I had a hard time getting prednisone from one of the many ENTs I have seen over the years.

Hmmmm. Sorry to hear that. Please take the steroids that your doctor did give you.

 

[Eric N]

Hmmmm. Sorry to hear that. Please take the steroids that your doctor did give you.

I had them for more than a year now and they are expired by a few months. Have you ever taken them?

 

[Eric N]

I'm definitely worse high frequency now is in my right ear and it seems to have gotten worse after driving on the highway for 30 minutes even with ear muffs on, I don't know what to do.

I'm scared to take the prednisone I have left since I had a bad experience with only one pill of Tylenol.

At this I'm getting a new Spike almost every month for the last 4 months