Hey, I have been reading this group for a while now but never posted but i
guess now is a good time.
I've had ringing ears for over a year nonstop. I used to play in rock bands
for a few years and didnt wear earplugs a lot of the time (stupid i know but
no one else did or even suggested it until a few years later thats when i
started wearing them but it feels too late) but i also have had a lymph node
at the front of my right ear just on my face for perhaps a year or 2.
I went to the specialist for the node and he said it was nothing and its
just gonna stay there, but it is kind of awkward and feels like it presses
onto my ear and gives my right ear a different feeling like more full or
pressured, and changes the sound.
I get headaches often from it, and i am waiting for my appointment with the
ENT specialist. Im not sure if i believe that the node is nothing, as when i
wear my molded earplugs it has different sound quality that i hear from
right to left (more blocked in the right), if i pull the node away from the
ear then the sound has less sort of pressure, but when i let go, the
pressure returns.
Im not sure what to do about the ringing, ive tried to get used to it but a
lot of the time im just too depressed to do anything and my girlfriend even
has left temporarily because i just cant physically get to sleep at night
because of it. I just wait till im so tired i pass out.
I've got no idea what to do. its made me want to leap from a roof or
anything to escape my head.

sorry if its too much to read.