Jodles
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Hello!
Sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum category, but I thought "sound science" was the closest one...
Bear with me:
I flew a lot back and forth across the Atlantean ocean, and in Europe about 1.5-2 months ago, and have always had problems with pain in the ears during take-off/landing (especially landing). I had a terrible cold all this time as well, which didn't really make things better.
On one of the last trips, I started to hear sounds like a bone cracking in my right ear every time I swallow. These sounds have stayed there since. I went to a doctor specialist in ears to have it checked out. He found I actually had over-pressure in my left ear, but otherwise (+ a lot of wax) everything was ok. Also did a listening test, and found that my left ear was slightly above average "performance" of people my age (21), and the right ear was even further above average.
Now I've never had it like this before. It feels like my right ear is a lot more sensitive to sounds than my left (I'm pretty sure the over-pressure is gone now). Whenever I swallow it feels sort of "open" out to the right ear with the cracking sounds, and sort of "closed" to the left ear (anyone know what I'm talking about?). And when I'm listening to my headphones now, the soundstage is always a little to the right of the middle (super annoying), and a little louder on the right ear.
Has anybody had experiences like I'm experiencing now? Did it go away and return to normal at some point? Anything I can do? This is important to me as I'll be studying sound recording and working with sound later...
Sorry for the long post, but thought it was necessary with some context
Joachim
Sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum category, but I thought "sound science" was the closest one...
Bear with me:
I flew a lot back and forth across the Atlantean ocean, and in Europe about 1.5-2 months ago, and have always had problems with pain in the ears during take-off/landing (especially landing). I had a terrible cold all this time as well, which didn't really make things better.
On one of the last trips, I started to hear sounds like a bone cracking in my right ear every time I swallow. These sounds have stayed there since. I went to a doctor specialist in ears to have it checked out. He found I actually had over-pressure in my left ear, but otherwise (+ a lot of wax) everything was ok. Also did a listening test, and found that my left ear was slightly above average "performance" of people my age (21), and the right ear was even further above average.
Now I've never had it like this before. It feels like my right ear is a lot more sensitive to sounds than my left (I'm pretty sure the over-pressure is gone now). Whenever I swallow it feels sort of "open" out to the right ear with the cracking sounds, and sort of "closed" to the left ear (anyone know what I'm talking about?). And when I'm listening to my headphones now, the soundstage is always a little to the right of the middle (super annoying), and a little louder on the right ear.
Has anybody had experiences like I'm experiencing now? Did it go away and return to normal at some point? Anything I can do? This is important to me as I'll be studying sound recording and working with sound later...
Sorry for the long post, but thought it was necessary with some context
Joachim