Ear fullness due to ETD or hyperacusis?

This is your TVP muscle being out of wack (due to H) and messing with your ETs.

OP🍰

Interesting, so is there a chance if mu ETD goes away that'll calm down or do you want to elaborate more on the wider scope of what I should and shouldn't do? I know you've frequented many of my posts so I look forward to your insight.

Avoid any sound that causes fullness or discomfort, it means your muscle can’t handle it and it needs to rest. Try lowering your tv or using captions if it’s too low where you can’t hear it.

OP🍰

I see. Fair enough. Now I will say that it seems to be very eractic when it wants to do the fullness.

Sometimes it doesn't do it and sometimes it does. It seems like it can't decide even if the volume has been lowered or not

Could be certain frequencies, an equalizer might be of use

OP🍰

How long do you think this will take to heal?

Highly individual. Usually recovery is 6 months to 2 years for 95%

vscience

Holy crap. up to 2 years ?? I am 5 weeks in and have a similar issue to OP. All that happened to me was a toddler unexpectedly screamed right next to me really high pitch and my T and H has gone ballistic along with ear fullness and pain for 5 weeks now.

Yeah some people longer. Just hunker down for now

Do you have an ear infection? Also, you may want to try a Eustachi for ear fullness. It’s been helpful for mine and my hyperacusis. Using quickly a few times a day.

OP🍰

Not sure. I know I use to. My doctor proscribed me with Amoxicillin and methylprednisolone and zyrtec but I was never given a definite answer. Forgot to ask. I think since it's full of fluid and red there might be a type of infection.

How long have you been taking them? Have they been helpful so far?

OP🍰

Just started taking them. The earfulness while watching tv has Been going for a few days.

I've had this current ETD for a few weeks. Doctors didn't seem too concerned till I started having pain and whatnot

The funny thing is the earfullness while watching tv is Inconsistent

I would def be cautious about any sounds that cause pain, don’t want to make things worse or permanent early on. If you are in hyperacusis territory then this is the window of time you should rest your ears and not condition the pain response. Hopefully the antibiotics work for the inflammation and the sensitivity subsides. Keep us posted!

And the Eustachi really does help drain fluid from the middle ear. May not need to spend the money if antibiotics do the trick shortly but another option.

OP🍰

That's the thing, I don't think it's causing pain tbh the tv thing. I have occasional pain but it tends to be random or becausei put pressure on one side. Just fullness. And that's something I don't get from anything else- other than the TV which It likes to be inconsistent. Like today I even did a test it was full when I was eating. Gave my ears a rest and came back to the tv and the ears felt fine- albeit other than me actively looking for sometning to be wrong so I was more aware of my ear, but i didn't feel fullness

NoiseKills

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What I think is going on is a noise injury. Since you are a gamer with exposure to loud fans, it is odd that you are so resistant to acknowledging noise exposure as the most likely cause of your symptoms, which are textbook noise injury. An infection is almost certainly a misdiagnosis and so is ETD.