Yeah. That's a crazy title for a crazy experience. Y'all may remember me from some of my posts about my blood pressure that landed me in the ER and the delay in the adalimumab working.
I have hearing loss in my right ear from an incident about 35-36 years ago (I'm 55). I have figured out how to compensate for a lot of it but it's just one of those things - we weren't told to protect our hearing in those days.
But this is something I never told anyone until yesterday.
For the last 3 years, maybe longer, I've had a persistent sound, mostly in my left ear (the good ear), that sounded like an acoustic guitar played thru an amp. And an intermittent beep for good measure. It was never a song, but I could make words up to it if I concentrated. It was so loud when I was lying down, I thought it was my air purifier or an outlet in my bedroom. I have been trying to find the cause of the guitar playing in my head for so long, it became normal. One of carbon monoxide detectors is right outside of my door and I've replaced the battery to see if there was a leak.
Then I woke up yesterday.
It was so quiet in my bedroom, I thought I'd possibly lost my hearing entirely. But then I realized I could hear the air purifier. But no guitar. No beeps.
I can hear regular sounds, all the little ones of an active house on a Tuesday right now. I think I can hear better in both ears. It's so weird!
My injections are every Friday. I've done 4, so a month, and I was on it biweekly regularly since last October.
I really think there could've been inflammation in my ear causing this and the adalimumab has helped it too. 🤷🏻♀️