Water Slap, Prednisone Worked, Should I Try More?

Hi lovely and brave people,

I'm posting this here, since I tried posting it in the treatments but couldn't make a new thread.

Let me introduce my story, I got Tinnitus after jumping into a river from a 5m height and slapping my right ear against the water. That was 19 days ago.

I went to the ENT 12 days after the onset, she prescribed me prednisone for 5 days (dosis of 100mg first day, tapering 20mg each day during five days). I had kind of a mild T (4/10), but the second and thir day on Prednisone my T became really low (2/10 or even 1/10). The treatment was finished yesterday, and my T came to a level closer to what it was before, maybe a bit lower (3,5 -4 /10).

Yesterday I had control with my ENT, she told me that the treatment was over, that I shouldn't take more pills and should try to not focus on my T, that it might or might not fade away with time. This was a bit disappointing for me, since prednisone seemed to be working.

That is why I wanted to ask you guys, should I got back to the GP to ask for a longer treatment on Prednisone ? Or just follow her advise and not doing anything else.

 

That's a tough one.

When did your T begin to get back to 3.5? Did it happen After you took your last Prednisone pill, or did it start happening sometime before you took that last pill?

 

It went from 2 to 3.5 the last day I took prednisone, it was two days ago, that day the dose was the lowest (20mg).
Right now my T is almost the same (3.5/10)

 

I think the ent is right
She did the right thing and gave you a high dosage
But prednisone has a very limited window of opportunity usually a few hours or 2-3 days
My ent told me 3 weeks after trauma will make no difference

Nevertheless I still took prednisone again a few weeks later and sure enough it made no lasting difference but I did experience a day or two of very low T during that time of

 

Seeing how it seems to have been having a positive effect, if I were you, I would ask for more prednisone,