Will It Go Away? Started Hearing Ringing A Week After My Last Rave

I’m quite prone to going raving and dancing the night away next to the biggest speaker in the room.

One morning (a week after my last rave, where I was next to the speaker for a good two hours) I started to hear the ringing in my ears. I’ve had this before, so I put my finger in my ear, pressed really hard and expected it to go within 10 seconds as it usually does.

It didn’t.

It’s now been a week and half and it is still there. Just in one ear. I’m going crazy. I lie in bed every night and it’s all I can hear, I wake up with it in the morning. I’m so scared I have chronic tinnitus. I went to the doctors after a week and he couldn’t see anything wrong with my ear, no blockages or anything.

I’m going to an ENT specialist on Monday, but I’m not feeling hopeful. I’m having to play white noise through my speaker to help take the buzzing away. But I’m constantly thinking about it so it’s always there. I’m a primary school teacher and therefore stressed as I have lots of deadlines to reach. This is making the stress so much worse.

Please help me. Will it go away? Is this heard of? I can’t bear to think I’m going to have to live with it forever.

 

Do you hear it only in quiet place, in home, during class, outside?

 

I hear it when I am somewhere quiet, at school it isn't noticeable. I like to drive around with the radio on because it is like I don't have it then. I feel as if it is getting worse!

 

I'd say noice-induced T actually does have a chance of going away. Check out this thread: https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/spontaneous-recovery-stats-many-recover-3-studies.21441/

In the meanwhile, you should probably try to adjust your attitude towards it. Accept it for what it is (there is nothing else to do right now) and try to mask it when going to bed with nature sounds (from youtube or a phone app), so you have something else to listen to.

If you think it is getting worse, then it may be the case that your tinnitus is a bit 'reactive'. This will get better, but it probably means you should try staying away from even moderately loud noises for a while. Just to make sure you are in optimal conditions to make an appeal to your natural healing abilities. I personally would avoid going to bars or other loud gatherings for a while, let alone raves.

 

Great! You have a mild tinnitus, once you will forget it, it will not bother you anymore and have big chance that it will subsides in the time.

Your most important prevention is to avoid loud noises.

 

Hey,
When you first get it thats the hardest part (I got it lightly and still stressed all over the place).
If your quick you can take some NAC supplement early after onset. Its cheap, low to no side-effects and is said to work:
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/n-acetylcysteine-nac.395/
It took me 5 months to find this link on NAC after my onset so you could try that.
Plus magnesium is a famous supplement to take:
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/loud-concert-magnesium-helped.20373/
You should take the magnesium citrate (its the best absorbable one)
It took me about 5 months also finding out citrate works and magnesium oxide is just not absorbed at all (which I took for months). Magnesium citrate also helps me sleep better if I take it in the evenings.

I also did prednison (very heavy medicine) and HBOT (hyperbaric oxigen therapy). The hyperbaric oxigen therapy is very expensive, takes up a lot of time but has the least chance of side effects and aids in general health and wellbeing. Here is a link: http://www.dw.com/en/hyperbaric-oxy...umber-of-disorders-under-pressure/av-16829128
You can check information on both on this forum. Quick action works best on both of these btw.

Next to that, earplugs, there important, and I forgot them all the time years ago, now I have so on my keychain so I never forget them. I have the ones from Earpeace:
https://www.earpeace.com/
Skin colored, 2 types of filters included of which one is the heavy filter I always use. Very comfortable, plus it includes a keychain pod.

Anyways, do take care.

 

Try notched music therapy. Some website I visited cited a study that acute tinnitus sufferers (that's you right now) managed to reverse their tinnitus by using it. I haven't read the study so I can't verify its methods, but its worth a shot. This may seem like odd advice coming from me, but try to remain calm. It's really annoying, but some think the emotional reaction is what makes it worse and chronic. This isn't definitive, but try not to freak out over it while you figure this out.

 

You have tinnitus because of hearing damage, No one knows if it will go away unfortunately.
Do not use headphones or you could make it worse.

 

That's a proven way to quickly damage hearing by killing the synapses and sensory cells in the inner ear.
Because the inner ear is damaged from heavy abuse your brain is making tonal, beeping, buzzing ect noises as it's own confused way to compensate for hearing loss. it may even be acting as an internal hearing aid.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4208401/

Some of the damage to your hearing is permanent unless medicine advances
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/forums/research-news.4/ some good news here does exist but its a few year away at best.

You may be able to make a moderate at best degree of recovery if you give you ears a huge rest. (no loud music, loud traffic, headphones) My hearing moderately recovered after trauma because I took at huge rest and was paranoid t.

Even if your tinnitus fade it can always come back due to the fact you have hearing loss.

Everyone on this forum is suffering and the best you can do is avoid stress and be realistic about the situation.
There are people who's tinnitus got louder because they further disrespected their hearing after having tinnitus.

 

My suggestion would be to get your hearing checked for free to see if there is a loss. (Go to a hearing aid place that offers this) If there is, ask for a demo of a hearing aid programmed for your specific ear and put it in and see if the ringing is unnoticeable.

 

You regularly go to Raves and stand next to the speaker? I would be extremely surprised if your tinnitus is not chronic. That's just the honest, brutal truth. A lot of people talk about tinnitus going away but I've never seen anyone who has had it disappear for them. You might have hyperacusis as well which will make your tinnitus fluctuate. In general it might seem like your tinnitus is getting louder but these are generally just called spikes and are temporary. Fortunately, if you can only hear it in quiet places then it is mild and you should stop going to Raves. Please take care of yourself and educate yourself on what is healthy for your ears.

 

That sounds like good advice, I got careless 5 months after onset and now I had 3 spikes in a month. First it tripled in volume, I got that back to base line (with prednison which im really happy about, and lucky that did not backfire) and then I also had 2 small spikes. All avoidable, like speakers, dropping heavy stuff. I will be getting paranoid as well now. Better to start early! While my T remains (and hopefully stays) on a low volume.

 

Uhhh... I wouldn't call accidents "avoidable".

 

Well... ok awkward to say but it was the toilet seat. I went to the bathroom during the night.. dropped the toilet seat when trying to put the lid on. It gave a bang coming down in the tiny stall, it spiked my light T up a bit. Thats just me being clumsy-_-.

 

@Sam1995
I have bought the following products recently to limit my loud sound exposure. Its expensive stuff, but if your interested (and wanna get a bit paranoid about loud sounds here) this is what I got:
- One pair of volume limited earphones (Etymotic EK5), max output 85db, whatever happens.
- One pair of Electronic volume limiting earphones (Etymotic Music Pro) (I am going to wear these now for near permanent use), they keep the noises that reach my ear below 80db virtually always. I recently was walking around with my db meter and noticed one doorslam at my place would be 90db, pan clang also 90db, hurts my ear, solved with electronic earplugs.
- I just ordered one bundle of (said to be) extremely comfortable isolating foam eartips for my Electronic volume limiting earphones so I can wear those a lot. Perhaps look like an android a bit but whatever.