That's really bad...I really feel for u, dude. I'm so lucky I don't have any, although by all standards I probably should have. I don't take nearly enough care of my hearing. I hope it gets better...my friend had pretty bad tinnitus for a decade, but he persisted and always wears earplugs when there's any noise, like even in movie theaters etc.
Ears are so sensitive, after all. I suffer BPV now and then, Benign Paroxysmal Vertigo...google if interested, but in a nutshell it means now and then, maybe once or twice a year I get suddenly dizzy with certain movements. Most usual case is that I for instance wake up, get up, and dive down onto the floor right away, feeling like an invisible hand pulls me down mercilessly. But it's just the inner ear playing tricks.
If the feeling is clearly in one ear, for instance, I'm in bed and turn left and the world drops from under me and I feel nauseous, then it's easy to repair in a matter of day or two by just doing certain head movements in a carefully designed cycle for 10 minutes, and it passes in 24h.
But sometimes it's much lesser an effect, and hard to say which ear is the culprit, and in those cases I may have up to a week of time I don't really want to do anything but lie down and watch TV, because I have this constant vertigo and nausea, and it's really a downer for doing anything. Feels somewhat surreal and like a bad flu or something, really. Then when I finally find out the ear and the needed operation, again it's a matter of 24h to get it sorted with the movement exercises.
I don't know what triggers it; it may be anything from stress to loud noise to knock on the head, but it's definitely the ear anyway.
The first time it struck, I was bedridden for a week, it was so bad I threw up right away if I moved any for a day or two at first, and it was literally hard to not grip my bedsides constantly because my brain was screaming at me that the world below me is dropping under me and turning round. It really was incredibly bad, like I was stuck in a crazy merry-go-round that never stopped no matter what. I was sure at first I have some sort of brain stroke or something. Buthe worst part was over in a day...I tell you after a day I was so exhausted. The bouts have been much milder since, and steadily less&infrequent ever since. Which is good, because if it gets bad, pretty much the only permanent fix is to fill one or two of the inner ear balance tubes with bone glue, and that includes a clear risk for loss of hearing.
Well, it's not stopping me making loud music at least for now...
