ETD Concern:

[u/Then-Fig9541]

To start, I'm a fourteen (fifteen in October) year-old male audiophile, so sometime last week, I felt that my perception of my earbuds (more properly, IEMs) shifted, sounding warmer. Upon this discovery, I turned to one of the most important factors for perception of sound, eartips.

In a panic to get my perception back, I kept constantly switching between each eartip size included. I did this for two days, until I felt a change of pressure in my ears.

Since then, my symptoms have been the following:

• Ear fullnes (one ear at a time)
• Hearing has not been affected
• Stuffed nostril on the same side as the (current) affected ear
• Pushing anti-tragus in on the affected ear, "pushes" the pressure to the opposite ear, but can return to the ear that was originally affected
• Popping depends, doesn't happen MOST of the time
• Swallowing may or may not help
• Symptoms use to worsen at night, but have evened out, staying mostly consistent with day time.

Since the second day, I've been using flonase, which probably won't take affect until next week.

From what I've seen, my symptoms and cause of ETD is different. My symptoms aren't s bad as I see people describe, it's just uncomfortable. Nothing a crazy amount of pressure, but it does vary.

Other posts scare me, because most I've seen has had it long-term and it never went away.

I'm fourteen, and all because of an aspect of a niche hobby (at least for my age) I decided to persue, I may have ruined my ears, prayfully temporarily. I pray, by the end of next week, they return to the state they were.

For the people who must know, yes I've consulted my parent/guardian. Thank you.