Anonymous asked:

Are you feeling any better? Is your ear actively hurting? I hope a specialist can help you out soon.

Ears don't really heal, which means the best I can hope for is to wait (weeks and weeks) for it to stop being reactive and inflamed. It only hurts sometimes, when it's been exposed to too much noise, but there's no consistent pattern to what constitutes "too much", or what kind (pitch, volume, etc.). Fortunately, now that I've been able to get a high-frequency hearing test, I've determined that the only significant hearing damage is in an upper range, which I would have eventually lost with aging anyway. At one point, everything in that ear sounded like it was coming out of a broken drive-thru speaker, so things could have been a lot worse. But I've still got the percussion sensitivity, middle-ear muscle seizures and probably permanent tinnitus. So life is really fun right now.