Hi everyone. 
I've been reading many messages on this website for a month now, and it really helped me, so I feel the need to present myself. (I need to apologize for my bad english, hope you'll understand everything)
I'm a 23 years old French engineer, in my life I love sports, Electronic Dance Music, computer sciences, gaming, puppies... but two years ago, something changed.
I woke up in the middle of the night with a ringing ear, at first, I thought it was temporary so I tried many things to calm myself, but it never disappears.
From this day, I get some difficulties to sleep, I can't remember the last time I slept more than 8h straight, however, life was going on and I started to protect my ears from loud events !
It's been a month now, my condition got worse, in the middle of the night, once more.
My tinnitus is louder but I can still live with it, I hear it in quiet situations but I really don't want it to get louder and louder...
I also feel some pain in my left ear, some noises are painful for me, it's look like H but I still don't know, some loudy noises are not bothering me it's weird... sometimes, even in the silence, it's really painful I don't know why ! I'm not overprotecting my ear but sometimes it's annoying.
I saw an audiologist, my audiogram is normal but he said I have a TMD, I have to meet another specialist in October. I'm concerned because I sleep less and less, I constantly have headache, maybe I have something like anhedonia, things that used to make me happy are not "working" anymore, I'm not always sad but I don't know when was the last time I was really happy for something (even France winning the world cup didn't work).
There are so many interesting stories and people here, I wanna thank you for everything I've already read, I'm not feeling alone with you guys !
French Muffin.
I've been reading many messages on this website for a month now, and it really helped me, so I feel the need to present myself. (I need to apologize for my bad english, hope you'll understand everything)
I'm a 23 years old French engineer, in my life I love sports, Electronic Dance Music, computer sciences, gaming, puppies... but two years ago, something changed.
I woke up in the middle of the night with a ringing ear, at first, I thought it was temporary so I tried many things to calm myself, but it never disappears.
From this day, I get some difficulties to sleep, I can't remember the last time I slept more than 8h straight, however, life was going on and I started to protect my ears from loud events !
It's been a month now, my condition got worse, in the middle of the night, once more.
My tinnitus is louder but I can still live with it, I hear it in quiet situations but I really don't want it to get louder and louder...
I also feel some pain in my left ear, some noises are painful for me, it's look like H but I still don't know, some loudy noises are not bothering me it's weird... sometimes, even in the silence, it's really painful I don't know why ! I'm not overprotecting my ear but sometimes it's annoying.
I saw an audiologist, my audiogram is normal but he said I have a TMD, I have to meet another specialist in October. I'm concerned because I sleep less and less, I constantly have headache, maybe I have something like anhedonia, things that used to make me happy are not "working" anymore, I'm not always sad but I don't know when was the last time I was really happy for something (even France winning the world cup didn't work).
There are so many interesting stories and people here, I wanna thank you for everything I've already read, I'm not feeling alone with you guys !
French Muffin.
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