Spontaneous Onset of Hearing Loss and Louder Tinnitus

Here are my current symptoms:

• Obviously the hearing loss: Possibly 60% loss in my right ear.
  
  
• The fullness: Ohhh, the fullness... It is sometimes very noticeable and I have to pull from my ear a bit like an idiot to try and give me some relief. And sometimes I wouldn't notice it at all...
  
  
• Tinnitus: I had a pretty mild version of it that didn't bother me much when my bad ear was functioning correctly. Now it is non-stop and loud, unless I'm busy with background sound on, to mask it.
  
  
• For some reason, I hear my heartbeat very loud in my bad ear when I exercise. The faster the heartbeat is, the louder it is in the bad ear. I hear nothing if I'm at a resting position.
  
  
• May be relevant, but I sometimes hear a hollow knock when I lie down in my bad ear side when trying to sleep. Unsure if it sounds like liquid or something, I can't tell... Someone can enlighten me on this. Nowadays, I don't really hear it, which is weird. It only happens if I have been on my feet or sitting for hours, then going to lie down after. 3 seconds later, I can hear the hollow knock.

That's pretty much it!

One day I was feeling great, the next day, it was all over.

Ask me anything else, or tell me if you have something similar to my symptoms.

Thank you for reading!

 

Welcome to the forum. I had similar symptoms in the beginning you listed above. But I have total hearing loss on the left ear, so the fullness is constant. My left ear also has a new loud, rumbling, jet-engine like tinnitus. My original tinnitus from the right ear is like a dentist drill but it is not as loud as the jet-engine tinnitus. It bothered me initially when new. But given time and following some helpful strategies that I share in my success story, I have managed to habituate even to this new loud jet-engine like tinnitus. I hope you have speedy recovery. God bless.

From Darkness to Light, How I Recovered from Tinnitus & Hyperacusis