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There are people on the net that
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talking about them. (lame) They mock the owners and posters for
their opinions and their right to free speech. They expect everyone
to fit into their narrow-minded little world view or else they throw
a temper tantrum.
To these people I say
grow up.
Here's a bit of info people...the
web is a HUGE place. If you don't like what I say here, or who I am,
or what I do, or talk about, or what I look like, or the color of my
hair, or whatever asinine thing you dwell on, go somewhere else.
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the corner of your browser and *poof* the offending, big, mean and
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I pay for this site. It's mine.
That means I can use it for whatever the hell I want to. Don't like
it if I'm bitching about something in my life? Oh fucking well. Go
somewhere else. Think I'm stupid for expressing my thoughts? Too
fucking bad, don't read them. Somewhere along the line, someone
forgot this simple fact: Live and let live Don't like me,
cool, fine, whatever, I don't care. This journal is NOT for
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stupid like that. I write it because I need to write and express
myself and get things out of my head sometimes. So read or don't, it
doesn't matter, but don't waste my time (or yours) bitching about
it.
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Saturday, February 24, 2007
Distorted Hearing Ok, this is officially driving me crazy. At some random point yesterday afternoon, my ears went wonky. And unfortunately, they are still that way after a night's sleep.
Everything sounds like when you talk into a fan. Know how you'd do that when you were a kid? And laugh at the metallic distortion it turned your voice into? Yeah, that. Only it's not anywhere near as fun when you can't stop doing it. My own voice, the tv, anyone speaking - it all has that same vibrational/metallic distortion. And it's so absolutely annoying I don't know what to do. I find myself turning off every source of sound just to stop listening to it. And it's making it hard for me to understand people. If I'm not turned directly towards them, the distortion is making it all muffled and then I can't easily understand what they're saying.
This is really horrible!! I've never had anything like this happen to me before. I've always had shitty inner ears since I had chronic infections as a child but never this kind of situation. (They get water stuck in them every single time I shower for example.) I don't know what to do. I assume the normal first step would be to try some peroxide or similar to see if there's a blockage of wax but with my ears, if I put something in them to clean them out, it literally won't come out. The last time I tried, I ended up in the doctor who flushed them out with a syringe because it was stuck for like two days and miserable. So I'm hesitant to try to clean them out myself since I don't want to make it worse.
I've tried swallowing, tried to "pop" my ears (which sadly never works for me), tried dry cleaning them with a Q-tip and I even took a Claritin yesterday thinking an antihistamine might help declog them. No such luck. I just don't know what to do and I can't keep indefinitely dealing with this distortion. It makes me want to claw at my ears and I swear it makes me feel crazy. My ears don't hurt, but the irritation mentally is absolutely intolerable!!!
Update 2008: I get a lot of emails from this entry. Seems that a lot of people
have this exact same problem and everyone is trying to figure out (a) what it is
and (b) how to make it better. I can't say what caused mine. I have absolutely
no idea. I can say however, that it went away on it's own after about ten days
or so.
Follow up entries include
this one in which I've tried cleaning it but it gets no better and
this one in March where it finally just kinda goes back to normal.
Some people who have emailed me have followed up to report theirs went away on
it's own also. I never went to the doctor about it (I have no medical insurance)
and I've thankfully not had it happen again.
I wish I were able to help someone figure out what it was or how to get rid of
it, but I really have no idea. I'm manually editing this entry as it comes up
regularly in searches and, as I mentioned, I've had many people email me seeking
diagnosis, relief, or solution. Sadly, I don't have any. But if you are
experiencing this kind of distorted hearing problem, I can only hope yours too
will go away on it's own. You've got my sympathy and well-wishes.
