- Jun 22, 2014
- 158
- Tinnitus Since
- 05/2014
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Noise and/or Ear Infeciton
Ever since my T started I've been told me lots of people "it's going to go, don't worry". Two GP's said to me it will go within weeks and that they didn't think that playing drums for over 7 years had anything to do with it, that my cold/ear infection was the cause. I took a round of antibiotics for 1 week and ear drops for 4 weeks, which didn't help really. That was 6 weeks ago.
My whole family are convinced it'll leave me at some point soon.
But I don't know, I'm torn between thinking it's because of hearing damage or an infection. I wear earbuds to bed (I play the volume below 50%, podcasts mostly; talking podcasts) every night and have done for a few years. I (before T) wore headphones almost every day for the past 4 months listening to mainly podcasts but sometimes music.
I'll admit I've been to my fair share of concerts and never really wore hearing protection. When I played drums I normally listened to music alongside the drums through headphones/ear buds. When I was younger I did abuse my ears (who didn't at 12-15) but since then I've made a conscious decision to try to lower the volume of everything to avoid hearing loss/tinnitus.
The morning/day/night (I can't really remember at what point that I noticed it) I got my T, I had listened to something in college too loud for 5/10 minutes, to the point where it was hurting. I turned it down to a point where it wasn't hurting shortly after. That was the day before the onset of my T.
A day/two days following the onset of my T, I got a cold and an ear infection. The ear infection wasn't particularly sore, mild pain intermittently. I went to the doctor a week after the onset of T and they told me I had otitis externa.
A few weeks later my doctor mentioned that my ear drum was retracted, which led me to believe it was ETD, since my ears were popping very frequently (whenever I sniffed and swallowed) and they hurt whenever I hiccuped/burped, and T is a symptom of ETD.
I had an audiogram done and the audiologist told me that I had normal hearing for someone my age. I'm 19.
I also developed pulsatile tinnitus for 2(ish) weeks at about week 5/6.
Since then, I've tried to live with it. I want it to go. I really, really want it to go. I feel like I haven't been myself or happy since it has begun. I don't know if I'm hoping in vain or not, I've not read a lot about people actually losing their T. I'm just feel scared and lonely. I've been anxious and stressed and been thinking about anti-anxiety medication. I don't know what to do.
My whole family are convinced it'll leave me at some point soon.
But I don't know, I'm torn between thinking it's because of hearing damage or an infection. I wear earbuds to bed (I play the volume below 50%, podcasts mostly; talking podcasts) every night and have done for a few years. I (before T) wore headphones almost every day for the past 4 months listening to mainly podcasts but sometimes music.
I'll admit I've been to my fair share of concerts and never really wore hearing protection. When I played drums I normally listened to music alongside the drums through headphones/ear buds. When I was younger I did abuse my ears (who didn't at 12-15) but since then I've made a conscious decision to try to lower the volume of everything to avoid hearing loss/tinnitus.
The morning/day/night (I can't really remember at what point that I noticed it) I got my T, I had listened to something in college too loud for 5/10 minutes, to the point where it was hurting. I turned it down to a point where it wasn't hurting shortly after. That was the day before the onset of my T.
A day/two days following the onset of my T, I got a cold and an ear infection. The ear infection wasn't particularly sore, mild pain intermittently. I went to the doctor a week after the onset of T and they told me I had otitis externa.
A few weeks later my doctor mentioned that my ear drum was retracted, which led me to believe it was ETD, since my ears were popping very frequently (whenever I sniffed and swallowed) and they hurt whenever I hiccuped/burped, and T is a symptom of ETD.
I had an audiogram done and the audiologist told me that I had normal hearing for someone my age. I'm 19.
I also developed pulsatile tinnitus for 2(ish) weeks at about week 5/6.
Since then, I've tried to live with it. I want it to go. I really, really want it to go. I feel like I haven't been myself or happy since it has begun. I don't know if I'm hoping in vain or not, I've not read a lot about people actually losing their T. I'm just feel scared and lonely. I've been anxious and stressed and been thinking about anti-anxiety medication. I don't know what to do.