Sshl recovery feels like a journey
I will try to keep a long story short.
Basically I was lying on my partners lap, they were playing with my hair and then my ear. I don’t know what they did but when removed their finger that was in my ear, my ear felt blocked.
That morning i woke up and my ear stayed blocked with a bit of ringing in it. I went to the doctor and they said it’s trauma and to wait it out. I demanded to see the ENT so I did and they said everything looks normal and I should do a hearing test. So I did and found that my left ear had some minor loss in the higher frequencies.
I had a CT scan and they couldn’t find any pressure or fluid in the middle ear either. So they then diagnosed me with SSHL and gave me 60mg of peridenose for 7 days. I finished that treatment and it was getting somewhat better. Then one day I went out to the supermarket and the music was really loud, I came home the tinnitus was really flared up. I thought maybe I did further damage so went back to the ENT and they said no further damage has been done and my hearing test shows the same results.
So now it’s been 2 weeks and the tinnitus is just unbearable. It’s so so loud at a high pitch eeeeeeeeee. My ear feels off balance, not like it needs to pop or anything, but like someone has their hand over my ear or like after swimming and you have water clogged in there. The ENT said there’s nothing else to do but to wait. And it will either stay or go. But either way I have to be prepared this is my new normal.
I honestly don’t know how this can be my new normal. I can’t sleep because the ringing is honestly that loud. The blocked ear feeling is also really unpleasant and I dont really want to go outside anymore. I’m not normally a depressed person but this has really mentally affected me to the point that I don’t know what to do.
I would like to hear from anyone this has happened to, does the tinnitus get batter and I will eventually habituate? Does the blocked sensation go away as well? I’m kinda at a loss because my ENT won’t help anymore and has kinda thrown in the towel so to speak.