Hi all!

I am not sure if I am posting to the right spot or not. I recently suffered acoustic trauma and now have bilateral hyperacusis.

Here is my audiogram from yesterday:

Right: Normal hearing sensitivity 250-8000 Hz
Left: Normal hearing sensitivity 250-8000 Hz

Bone Conduction: Unmasked left ear bone conduction thresholds are within normal limits, with 10-25 dB air-bone gaps noted.

I'm told that this means I have superhuman hearing (so to speak). I am struggling, to say the least.

It's been just over a week since the initial injury. I was in horrendous pain for the entire week, particularly my right ear. Today, things have calmed down and I have been fine wearing an ear plug in my right ear.

I have a sensation of fullness in both ears and I wondered if anyone has had luck treating the fullness with corticosteroids.

My ENT doc hasn't given me anything to help with it other than Gabapentin, which I refuse to take because it makes me feel like I am on a tilt-a-whirl and I end up puking (think: The Exorcist). I read several studies where corticosteroids helped with the "fullness."

My pain is at a manageable level right now unless I am exposed to something like a lawn mower, leaf blower, abrupt closing of a heavy door, barking dog, etc. While taking the audiogram, I could scarcely hear anything in the headphones over the roar of the computer in the room (which to me sounded like a tornado). I believe that exposure to loud sounds are triggering cluster migraines but have yet to have any physician's input on my theory.

I was wondering if anyone in the group has similar bone conduction sensitivity -- what my ENT jokingly called "supersonic" hearing.

I'm going for a CT scan tomorrow and vestibular function testing on Friday. I imagine they are looking to see if I have something wonky with my semicircular canals but they haven't told me anything.

I'm eager to see if anyone else is walking or has walked the "supersonic" path. Did surgery help?

Respectfully,
L.