Hello everyone!
I am experiencing a very odd case of ringing in the ears.
I will tell you about my issue and any kind of information regarding my situation would be extremely helpful. I have never had a problem with ringing in my ears before.
So, about a 10 days ago, I started experiencing weird symptoms. Prior to these symptoms, I had been having a facial nerve inflammation for about 4 weeks but no paralysis. No ear symptoms whatsoever. About 10 days ago I went to speak with my physiotherapist about the issue and he thought ultrasound therapy would be a good idea to speed up the recovery.
I received therapeutic ultrasound treatment on the temporomandibular joint where the facial nerve is, under the earlobe and the chin area and near the tragus of ear. I felt a sharp deep pain on the joint area for a few seconds when the ultrasonic machine was held there for a couple of seconds. My therapist said it was an indication of an inflamed nerve or neuropathy.
We continued the treatment on the face for about 15min. I didn't feel anything wrong after the treatment.
However, the next morning I started experiencing a weird full sensation in my ears and a slight cold moist feeling, which felt nothing like anything I have experienced before.
Then, 2 days later, I started experiencing a ringing in my ears that continues to this day. I have read a lot about tinnitus and its possible causes. I have investigated ultrasound and everything regarding it and I haven't found any information which would state that ultrasound could damage the ear or cochlea or could cause tinnitus. I know that human ears cannot even process ultrasound, let alone ultrasound damaging the hairs in the inner ear.
So that means, ultrasound cannot have possibly caused my tinnitus? Just to mention, I haven't had any noise trauma or any trauma in general to my ears or head. The only thing happening beforehand is the fact that I had a facial nerve inflammation and that caused neuropathy, because I cannot smell or taste for example.
I have always protected my ears and I eat a very healthy diet, also exercise regularly. I am not sure whether or not the facial nerve inflammation has anything to do with the ringing in my ears.
Also, prior to the ringing in my ears, I took aspirin for 6 days for the inflammation and pain, but during that I experienced no side effects and no tinnitus or any issue with my ears.
So that excludes the aspirin causing my tinnitus, right? I am not taking any other medications.
Anyway, now to the tinnitus part. It is very hard to explain what I am experiencing. I will try my best.
The ringing in my ears is not something usual. It is a rather high-pitched tone. There is a static noise in the background all the time, which doesn't really change, kind of like a radiator noise or a refrigerator.
On top of that, I hear a ringing noise. There are spontaneous bursts of ringing sounds. The weirdest thing about my ringing is that it changes according to outside noises. For example, when the washing machine makes its noise, my ringing gets louder and rings according to that noise, it has the same rhythm. The same goes for the TV, if there is noise, my ringing rings according to the rhythm of that noise and gets louder. When I am driving, the sound of cars driving makes my ringing ring just to that certain noise and changes according to that.
So bizarre. My doctors are clueless. I had an audiogram done which displayed no hearing loss, also my ears looked fine when the doctor did the check-up. That rules out hearing loss as the possible cause. I was wondering whether or not I might have developed an inner ear infection, because tinnitus is one of the symptoms.
Maybe the inflammation of the facial nerves did spread to my auditory nerve hence causing the symptoms.
Also, sounds are somewhat distorted. I have no idea what is going on and I am so scared. I cannot mask the sound because it changes to the sounds I hear.
Maybe the hairs in the cochlea are irritated because of the viral infection?
What do you guys think?
I haven't got any help from the doctors, so any answers would be appreciated.
I am experiencing a very odd case of ringing in the ears.
I will tell you about my issue and any kind of information regarding my situation would be extremely helpful. I have never had a problem with ringing in my ears before.
So, about a 10 days ago, I started experiencing weird symptoms. Prior to these symptoms, I had been having a facial nerve inflammation for about 4 weeks but no paralysis. No ear symptoms whatsoever. About 10 days ago I went to speak with my physiotherapist about the issue and he thought ultrasound therapy would be a good idea to speed up the recovery.
I received therapeutic ultrasound treatment on the temporomandibular joint where the facial nerve is, under the earlobe and the chin area and near the tragus of ear. I felt a sharp deep pain on the joint area for a few seconds when the ultrasonic machine was held there for a couple of seconds. My therapist said it was an indication of an inflamed nerve or neuropathy.
We continued the treatment on the face for about 15min. I didn't feel anything wrong after the treatment.
However, the next morning I started experiencing a weird full sensation in my ears and a slight cold moist feeling, which felt nothing like anything I have experienced before.
Then, 2 days later, I started experiencing a ringing in my ears that continues to this day. I have read a lot about tinnitus and its possible causes. I have investigated ultrasound and everything regarding it and I haven't found any information which would state that ultrasound could damage the ear or cochlea or could cause tinnitus. I know that human ears cannot even process ultrasound, let alone ultrasound damaging the hairs in the inner ear.
So that means, ultrasound cannot have possibly caused my tinnitus? Just to mention, I haven't had any noise trauma or any trauma in general to my ears or head. The only thing happening beforehand is the fact that I had a facial nerve inflammation and that caused neuropathy, because I cannot smell or taste for example.
I have always protected my ears and I eat a very healthy diet, also exercise regularly. I am not sure whether or not the facial nerve inflammation has anything to do with the ringing in my ears.
Also, prior to the ringing in my ears, I took aspirin for 6 days for the inflammation and pain, but during that I experienced no side effects and no tinnitus or any issue with my ears.
So that excludes the aspirin causing my tinnitus, right? I am not taking any other medications.
Anyway, now to the tinnitus part. It is very hard to explain what I am experiencing. I will try my best.
The ringing in my ears is not something usual. It is a rather high-pitched tone. There is a static noise in the background all the time, which doesn't really change, kind of like a radiator noise or a refrigerator.
On top of that, I hear a ringing noise. There are spontaneous bursts of ringing sounds. The weirdest thing about my ringing is that it changes according to outside noises. For example, when the washing machine makes its noise, my ringing gets louder and rings according to that noise, it has the same rhythm. The same goes for the TV, if there is noise, my ringing rings according to the rhythm of that noise and gets louder. When I am driving, the sound of cars driving makes my ringing ring just to that certain noise and changes according to that.
So bizarre. My doctors are clueless. I had an audiogram done which displayed no hearing loss, also my ears looked fine when the doctor did the check-up. That rules out hearing loss as the possible cause. I was wondering whether or not I might have developed an inner ear infection, because tinnitus is one of the symptoms.
Maybe the inflammation of the facial nerves did spread to my auditory nerve hence causing the symptoms.
Also, sounds are somewhat distorted. I have no idea what is going on and I am so scared. I cannot mask the sound because it changes to the sounds I hear.
Maybe the hairs in the cochlea are irritated because of the viral infection?
What do you guys think?
I haven't got any help from the doctors, so any answers would be appreciated.
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I'll follow this thread to see if anyone has input to what might cause it
