Is It Permanent?

For the past 5 days I have been hearing a buzzing sound in my left ear. Also my ears feel clogged when I position in a certain way when laying down. I've googled so much about this and I'm getting extremely anxious.

I've started to listen to music on my earphones several hours a day (doing homework and bus ride) for a week now. I've also been extremely stressed due to college applications.

Sometimes the sound gets too much and I can't handle it.

Will the buzzing sound go away?

 

Welcome to the forum. The excessive use of earphones and high level of anxiety and stress are known to cause tinnitus for some people. If your T is due to acoustic trauma (too much noise exposure), and since it is so new, you may want to get prednisone treatment asap as some members here suggest that it works for them. Yes many members here also report that their T fade or disappear. You can find their experiences by reading the success stories.

Even if their T does not fade, people find ways to habituate to their T. It may takes months, a year or two to get better but slow improvement will occur particularly if you stay positive and relax about it. Anxiety and stress are bad for T so we need to do our best as humanly possible as we can to keep calm and positive to keep the limbic system away to avoid functioning in fight or flight mode which can make T much worse than it is. In the meantime, you should try masking T if it really bothers you. Take care. God bless.

 

Thank you so much. I do have fexofenadine from an allergic reaction a few weeks ago and it suppresses the same symptoms as prednisone.

 

Fexofenadine does nothing for tinnitus, prednisone may cure your ringing if you start on it within a week

 

It can become permanent. It is a good idea to stop using earphones/headphones! It is also a good idea to protect your ears from moderate noises like that of a vacuum cleaner or a blender. Your ears have been compromised. What a person with healthy ears might not even notice, could make your tinnitus louder, or could lead to it becoming permanent.

The good news is that most likely it will fade and even disappear. It might take 3-6-12-24 months before that happens, though.

You can use sound masking (to give you something else to listen to) before falling asleep, and even during the day. You may want to purchase
https://www.amazon.com/Cherry-Koala-Concentration-Relaxation-Sufferers/dp/B01FRW2WBA
or
https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Oasis-S-5000-Deluxe-Therapy/dp/B018KUVEOM

or listen to nature sounds on the internet (crickets sounds work best for high pitch tinnitus)[but make sure not to use headphones].
https://mynoise.net/
http://purrli.com/

Also check out
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/spontaneous-recovery-stats-over-70-recover-3-studies.21441/

 

Get it checked by a doc. A hearing test would not be a bad idea either, because if your "clogged feeling" comes from a sudden hearing loss, you need to act fast.

 

I thought my clogged ears came from build up earwax since its happened before getting T

 

STOP using headphones...they have been known to cause T (also warn your friends against headphones)
IMO, it will fade if you protect your ears for a while. Might take 6 months.