I had this happen to me recently (for no apparent reason) and it had shockingly powerful emotional side-effects. Like, really uncharacteristically-powerful-for-me anger, impotent, flailing anger. And at the same time of course garden variety panic attacks that something in my ear was permanently ruined.
I took earwax-dissolvey ear drops for about two days, being afraid the whole time of the possibility that the problem wasn't earwax and I was ruining my ears by applying the wrong remedy --- and then at the end of the second day, the drops started finally getting through all the build-up and I could hear normally again.
So I was reading this, just this morning: "The human body is perceived as a fantastically complex web of these interdependent homeostatic systems, maintaining such things as body temperature, blood pressure, mineral and electric-charge concentration (pH) in the blood, heartbeat, and respiration, all sufficiently stable so that we can sail through the moment-to-moment vicissitudes of the outside world..."
I'm surprised that my meatbag holds up together at all.
Ughhhh sympathy. This happens to me every couple of years or so and yeah wow, it is so frustrating and isolating. The only thing I can say in its favor is that it helps me empathize with folks with more permanent hearing loss. Best of luck for a speedy recovery!
Thanks for the well-wishes and solidarity, everybody <3 I got it handled through ear-drops and aggression with a big ol' ear bulb and a lot of hot water...
Sorry to hear that this happens to you too sometimes! (but in some sense that makes it less awful and isolating...)
Thanks for this. I was sleeping recently and a gnat or something like it flew into one ear, deep. Its beating wings woke me. I thought I'd popped a blood vessel in my head. Loud, rhythmic. Scary. Couldn't get it out. The noise quit after a half hour, so I guess it died in there. Things are okay now. But your post prompts me to go see the ENT anyway, get the ear cleaned out.
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I took earwax-dissolvey ear drops for about two days, being afraid the whole time of the possibility that the problem wasn't earwax and I was ruining my ears by applying the wrong remedy --- and then at the end of the second day, the drops started finally getting through all the build-up and I could hear normally again.
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I'm surprised that my meatbag holds up together at all.
I'm sorry if I made you fume some more.
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Sorry to hear that this happens to you too sometimes! (but in some sense that makes it less awful and isolating...)
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Bodies fail. Empathy, tolerance, wisdom hopefully succeed.
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