Seeking advice on getting a diagnosis without doing catastrophic damage to myself
I’m 22 years old. I’ve had severe hyperacusis for about 2 years now with LDLs in the 50s or high 40s. I have reactive/unstable tinnitus, dysacusis, and sometimes mild noxacusis.
I am not officially diagnosed and I am afraid it might now be impossible to get a diagnosis.
About a month prior I had visited an ENT who wanted to order a suction cleaning of my ears, followed by an eventual audio test, and then an fMRI. I can barely use a q-tip as is, so literally any of these things will destroy me. I have been fucked up by far less for months on end.
The problem now is that I obviously can’t work a job and I depend on food stamps, which will be taken away soon if I don’t do something, but I don’t know what to do. I can only hope that I can get a very understanding audiologist/ENT that would skip straight to the audio test and just give me what I want, but I know the chances of that are basically 0.