My left ear has got low pass filtered

[whyterabbyt]

My ears can get messed up for a whole night after a concert. Sleep on it and if it's still there in the morning see a doctor.

I have waited 3 days since this happened in my left ear.
And it has not recovered by itself.

[frankvg]

Start taking huge amounts of N-acetyl cysteïne as soon as possible.

[arkmabat]

My bad.

Was the OP using a headphone amp?

[Compyfox]

I think the most important thing can not be repeated enough:
Go - see - a - Doctor!

A specialist to be precise. I'll get to that in a minute.

Until i took of my headphones after a few seconds.

This is the main reason why people test on speakers at a reasonable volume, and with a limiter engaged. It's not a definite solution, but a safety mechanism.

I think i have got noise induced hearing loss.

Sounds like it. The medical term is:
idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss

It should be temporary, especially if you feel that it's fluctuating over the day. If that is the case, then hope is not lost.

But for the love of things that are holy - STOP testing your ears with a sine/square wave at low volume. Stop using headphones altogether for the next weeks even. You only make things worse.

I have waited 3 days since this happened in my left ear.
And it has not recovered by itself.

Go see an ENT specialist!

I have tried to clean my ears with earwax on both my ears by using ears sticks.

Has no influence. And unless you have very oozing ears - stop doing that!

And then i have tried to fill both my ears with water to see if the hearing loss would go away.

Has no effect with any ear related issues - stop doing that!

And then i even tried to inhale a huge amount of air and then i shut my mouth and then i hold my nose and after that pressing out all the air through out my ears with all breath power i have.

The so called "pressure equalization" known among divers. It is a temporary relief and sees if your internal ear (stapedial bone) is still working correctly. Swallowing is another thing that can re-balance your ears again. Also, a temporary solution.

But as mentioned before - stop doing that on purpose! It can only get worse from there.

And there is nothing i can do to fix this problem.
I have no command over my ears.

Go see an ENT specialist!

I just wish sleeping would heal my damaged ears.

It will, after you contacted a specialist and get proper medication.

I have a static high frequency sine wave in my left ear.
I think it's called tinnitus.

Your ear (or rather the brain connected to it) is trying to compensate - so it raises specific frequencies ("trains" the ear to do so). This in turn can sound as if you have a tinnitus - the lines are really, really thing. And the longer you wait for fixing what's wrong, the more likely it is that you'll keep the tinnitus.

Go see an ENT specialist!




Some backstory from my viewpoint:
I have a history with ENT specialists since my teenage years. I'm no doctor, neither do I have a degree in that section. But I do know what is wrong with my ears once issues occur, and I do know how to respond accordingly.

I recently suffered from a (temporal) idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSHL in short). Only in my case, it happened out of nowhere. It can always happen since our ears don't just shut off. Only our brain "blends" out things once we sleep.

I also waited a couple of days before I went to see a specialist. Wasn't the first time that my ears shut off, so I thought "sleep a night about it, it'll be fine". I was mistaken. Even ear protection didn't help (I tried earmuffs rather than plugs to not irritate the ears any further - but generally, I mostly stayed inside as the outside world/noise was driving me nuts).

I went to a specialist to get this sorted, and he clearly said "there is no household remedy". So... aural examination, medication, MRT, and then getting treatment for the next to loosen the muscles around the ear canals.



What can(!) temporarily ease your pain: Magnesium. The kind you can get at any drugstore.

Magnesium has a vasodilating attribute, on top of relaxing stiff muscles. So this can help get through the day. But this is not (and I do emphasize on the word not) a solution.

My specialist prescribed two types of meds:
a) a vasolidating drug
b) an anti-vertigo drug (Betahistin)

The first one is cleaning your blood vessels so to speak by widening it, while the other tries to reduce any issue (e.g. swelling, stiff muscles) inside of your head. Whatever the reason may be. The Betahistin is a very strong drug however, and you need to consult a specialist on how you have to take the pills. Things should drastically improve during treatment.


It DOES HAVE side effects however:

1) chances are you feel vertigo even more
2) you might get cramps once you're off the drugs
3) Diarrhea
4) extremely dry nose (which can result in nose bleeding)
5) since it's not a long-term solution, you could still keep certain noises. And this can take weeks until you get rid of that. If ever.



So again. If your ears are important to you...
Stop doing self tests, away with the headphones -- go see an ENT specialist - NOW!

My ears can get messed up for a whole night after a concert. Sleep on it and if it's still there in the morning see a doctor.

This is why you should use hearing protection during a concert.

On a side note, my ears hear a little bit different I think. My left ear is closer to my crash and snare.

Then you suffer from permanent frequency selective hearing loss, which gives the impression that you hear "offset". Granted, our ears do not work the same for L/R... but if you play an instrument loud, or go to a lot of concerts, but don't think about hearing protection... you will loose frequencies really quick.

[rp314]

+1 for cleaning your ears.

I have much worse vision in my right eye but cleaning it has not seemed to do much good. During thousands of years of doing things like fleeing from lions, the difference in hearing from one ear to the other probably didn't make that much of a difference. They're just design flaws. We weren't created by a higher being who knew what we'd be up to many years later.

Hey, what if they were to take up spending most of their time listening to stuff that's right up against their ears? Nah...

[Jedinhopy]

My bad.

Was the OP using a headphone amp?

I am not using a headphone amp.

[arkmabat]

I should probably open a new thread. I got diagnosed with temporary labyrinthitis/vertigo after listening to this poorly mixed song really loud with headphones. Could it have literally been the cause?

http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03109

[arkmabat]

My bad.

Was the OP using a headphone amp?

I am not using a headphone amp.

Good. Once in highschool I plugged my headphones into an 8 ohm powered socket and electricity literally shot out of the earpieces when my buddy strummed his electric guitar. Really grateful I wasnt wearing the headphones.

[2ZrgE]

Of course the real lesson to be learned here: switch to Reaper, the auto-mute function is awesome!

Or this: http://www.cerberusaudio.com/Software/Products/Ice9/

[thecontrolcentre]

Once in highschool I plugged my headphones into an 8 ohm powered socket and electricity literally shot out of the earpieces when my buddy strummed his electric guitar.

Really? How is that even possible?

[Chris-S]

Your ear is trying to compensate - so it raises specific frequencies

The brain is trying to compensate for ear damage.

That's one possible cause for tinnitus.

[bibz1st]

I have tried to clean my ears with earwax on both my ears by using ears sticks

There is a saying...
"Never put anything smaller than your elbow into your ears"

[DJ Warmonger]

My left ear has got low pass filtered

You can easily fix that by applying strong distortion to your left ear

[Compyfox]

Your ear is trying to compensate - so it raises specific frequencies

The brain is trying to compensate for ear damage.

That's one possible cause for tinnitus.

Of course it's the "brain" as ultimate nerve center to adjust what is going on. Sorry for the confusion.

My left ear has got low pass filtered

You can easily fix that by applying strong distortion to your left ear

Sorry, but not funny.

[Jedinhopy]

My left ear has got low pass filtered

You can easily fix that by applying strong distortion to your left ear

I am not going to apply a EQ treble boost to the left stereo channel.

I want a natural way to restore my hearing.