I've had tinnitus 21 yrs this year.
Started from explosion accident, 3kg of chemical plastic explosives exploded 1 meter from me. My both eardrums ruptured immediatly and I had severe other injuries, small piece of stone punctured my right eye but thank God I didnt loose my vision. I was like shot with a shotgun to the face and upper body.
Two weeks after the accident, my hearing was like supermans, I heard a fly from a distance, mosquitos from meters away... amazing. Then after few weeks my hearing went down and tinnitus started. Actually I don't remember how loud it was from the beginning, but 10-15 years ago I was really suffering. My hearing is lowered 25-30% in speech freq. I rarely hear birds singing, grasshoppers never. I don't hear wind, neighbours car, phone ringing from distance etc.
Today I hear very high sound, left ear stronger and changing volume like a heartbeat, but little bit faster. Sometimes it's steady, but all the time very high and left side is much stronger. Some days left is steady high and right is pulsing. Never quiet, ofcourse not.
My right eardrum is fixed with surgery in 2005, they made it all new. There was a hole in my eardrum that didnt heal. Eardrum was quite ok after the operation, but tinnitus was still there, ofcourse.
I'm a diving instructor and in water every week, lot of hours in a pool and open water. One day I noticed that I don't hear tinnitus when I'm underwater with wethood. With my drysuit and dryhood I still hear it, but not so loud. Only place I can escape the tinnitus is underwater world, the place of total silence.
Cold water goes inside my ears next to the eardrum and the same time I equalize the pressure when I'm diving deeper - as you have to do when the ambient pressure increases. And no tinnitus with me underwater. Only me and the silence.
After diving T is always stronger, I have to pay back my loan of silence... but the underwater world is always there waiting for me.
Started from explosion accident, 3kg of chemical plastic explosives exploded 1 meter from me. My both eardrums ruptured immediatly and I had severe other injuries, small piece of stone punctured my right eye but thank God I didnt loose my vision. I was like shot with a shotgun to the face and upper body.
Two weeks after the accident, my hearing was like supermans, I heard a fly from a distance, mosquitos from meters away... amazing. Then after few weeks my hearing went down and tinnitus started. Actually I don't remember how loud it was from the beginning, but 10-15 years ago I was really suffering. My hearing is lowered 25-30% in speech freq. I rarely hear birds singing, grasshoppers never. I don't hear wind, neighbours car, phone ringing from distance etc.
Today I hear very high sound, left ear stronger and changing volume like a heartbeat, but little bit faster. Sometimes it's steady, but all the time very high and left side is much stronger. Some days left is steady high and right is pulsing. Never quiet, ofcourse not.
My right eardrum is fixed with surgery in 2005, they made it all new. There was a hole in my eardrum that didnt heal. Eardrum was quite ok after the operation, but tinnitus was still there, ofcourse.
I'm a diving instructor and in water every week, lot of hours in a pool and open water. One day I noticed that I don't hear tinnitus when I'm underwater with wethood. With my drysuit and dryhood I still hear it, but not so loud. Only place I can escape the tinnitus is underwater world, the place of total silence.
Cold water goes inside my ears next to the eardrum and the same time I equalize the pressure when I'm diving deeper - as you have to do when the ambient pressure increases. And no tinnitus with me underwater. Only me and the silence.
After diving T is always stronger, I have to pay back my loan of silence... but the underwater world is always there waiting for me.
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