u/Artistic-Yam-9090

Two months ago I went to my violin lesson as always. My violin teacher made a demonstration on how to get a bigger sound in high notes and, after a few seconds I started feeling pain on my ears. I told her so and she stopped immediately. After some injections the pain is gone but it comes back when I expose myself to sound for 30 minutes. I've been practicing with earplugs all this time. I tried to tune my violin without using protection but I feel my violin sounds very metallic and loud, even if I play softly, but my teacher says my tone hasn't changed. I'm so affraid I won't get over this and I'll eventually have to give up on a professional career. It's so frustrating to think how my life could have changed in a few seconds. I think sometimes that, even if this didn't happen now, it was gonna happen anytime in the future.

A month and two weeks ago I went to my weekly violin lesson as always. I'm a music student and I'm on my senior year, preparing my grade concert. I noticed some weeks before that I had very mild tinnitus after practicing on my left ear so I started using protection on that side, but when I took it off I noticed my violin sounded a bit too bright, but came back to normal after a couple of minutes. The day everything changed, my violin teacher demonstrated me how to get a bigger sound on high notes, so she played for a few seconds, the sound became very uncomfortable and I felt pain in my right ear (I was wearing an earplug on my left ear) I told her to stop and she did, and we ended the lesson there. I still had pain on my right ear and some tinnitus on my left, but it improved a bit the following days so I thought I wouldn't need medication. I started to wear an earplug on my right ear, but I stopped doing so after a week because I started feeling better, but I exposed myself to a mildly noisy environment and the pain came back. I received medication only three weeks after my acoustic trauma because the pain on my right ear started to become unbearable, and my symptoms went away almost completely, but it came back after two days. I started using earplugs in both ears to go out because I thought it would speed up my recovery. I received four injections, one each week, my pain on my right ear went away but goes back after a couple of minutes of being on a moderately loud environment, but it fades away after some hours of being in a quiet room. I tried to tune my violin without earplugs but my violin sounded too loud and bright to me, but my teacher says my tone hasn't changed. I have also become somewhat sensitive to claps, applauses, traffic, but I hear other sounds normally. I get ear fullness on both ears and pain on my right ear after half an hour when I go out, I use my earplugs only to practice and when I start feeling discomfort. I'll go to an audiologist next week to receive proper treatment. I really hope I'll be able to fully recover, I don't wanna quit playing professionally.