Hi,

I just liked to share my story here, and ask about something.

My first real ear injury came in 2003 in the army, when I accidentaly
fired a blank shot with a rifle near to my left ear. The ear became
sensitive, and hasn't really recovered yet. Over the time I got to
living with it, and forgot about it. Then, about a month a go I had a
dj gig in a loud little club. I had worn earplugs for the whole night,
but when my 30min set came, I took them off. At the end of the set, I
put the back on, cause of the loud sounds. After that we went to a club
with a very great volume. Next day when I got back home, I realised
that my right ear was sensitive the same way my left ear had been. I
paniced and wen't to see a doctor. The doctor checked my ears and said
there's nothing really wrong with my ears, but that they're sensitive
and need rest for the next 3 weeks or so, which is the time a ear needs
at least to recover. I did that, didn't listen to music at all, and
stayed away from loud places.Then after 2 weeks or so my ears we're
beginning to get back to normal and we had a gig the same week.  We
went to the place, which had a good monitoring for the dj, where you
could turn the speakers down as much as you wanted. I did, that but it
didn't affect the vocals, whichstayed at the same levels. I thought
that it would be ok. We did the gig and at the rest of evening I wore
plugs. Next day I hanged at an outside party, which had big speakers.
Once again I thought they weren't so loud, and didnä't wear plugs. The
next day I went to see my friend's dj gig at a bar and figured the
volume wasn't so big there either (and it actually wasn't) and didn't
wear plugs. The next day wen't fine, but on the evening I felt my neck
was all "loose" and it was aching. It was like it had no muscles or
something, it felt real odd. Then I realized all the talking was
becoming real sensitive to my ear, and the music sounded very strange,
like it was making my head dizzy. Now it's been a week from those three
days, and my hearing is still strange. First I couldn't sleep, because
I was so worried, but I found something that helped - massaging my
neck. I made few exercises that helped somewhat, but the T still stuck.
Now I'm having a dizzy feeling just sitting here at the computer. Could
this be due to loud 3 days or am could I be having somekind of strain
on my neck that prevents the blood circulating to my head? But I'm
pretty certain the 3 days had an gained affect on my T, thou I believe
there's no loss in the actual hearing. Has anyone else had problems
with neck or had somekind of dizziness in relation to Tinnitus? Thanks
in advance.