re: Muffled hearing and tinnitus from gunshot

Thanks for the reassuring input and great advice! I’m 30 so hopefully age works in my favor with the healing. Have a great week.

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new form of vitamin B1 (Benfotiamine) that helpful for nerve damage

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Appreciate it. I’ll keep that in my back pocket if nothing is working. I was given a mushroom blend of lion’s mane that they claim helps with nerve damage that I’ll try.

I got my ears run in the duck blind a couple years ago. Barrel was probably less than 12 inches above my head. I had exactly what you experienced. I couldn’t hear out that ear for about a week and thought I had permanent damage. Taking a shower was hell and anything high pitched was annoying. Today it’s all good but the tinnitus is definitely worse in my left than my right. My hearing is only slightly worse than it was before.

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when one guy decided to discharge his rifle

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I am far from some ACAB long covid person, but this reads just like a guilty cop police report

Have you ever watched a show on TV or movie where the firearms are fired inside the car? Yeah, well, it ain't like that at all.

I learned the hard way to never trust anyone with my firearms. Took a guy hunting with me, drove the IH Scout out to where I wanted. I was sitting in the front and the guy I brought with me was behind me. I was using a semi-auto .30.06 and I was letting him use a scoped .35 Remington lever action.

I had just stopped. Was getting my gloves and a few other things and I hear him use the lever action on the rifle, which sets the hammer. Before I tall him to stop and don't put live ammo in the gun in the vehicle, the fricking idiot pulled the trigger and shot a hole right through the side of the Scout. All the windows were up. The percussion from that blast had me unable hear for the rest of that day. The friendly relationship with that guy ended that day.

Playing drums since I was 12, and duck hunting
in flooded timbers since I was 15, my ears constantly ring... Good luck...

I took my nephew shooting a few months back.

Everyone there used hearing protection. I didn’t, in large part because it “wasn’t that bad.”

I’m coming to realize that a lifetime of duck hunting has done some damage.

Is your name Karen by chance?

Had similar symptoms years ago. We evacuated to a relatives house for Katrina and they live out in the country in MS. My cousin and I went out one day and shot his .45 ACP 1911 without ear protection. Had muffled hearing for a few weeks but it all eventually went back to normal.

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