[Stewie]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Here's one that's intermittent for me.
Occasionally, sound will create a 'busted speaker' sensation in my left ear.
It's not painful, but it is irritating.
Most often it is loud music, but it can even come and go with soft noise, even my own voice. High pitches are the worst [my SACD of Blonde on Blonde, with all the harmonica, can be excruciating]
It's not that I can't hear, or that the sound is distorted, but the sound is filtered, seemingly before my receptors receives it, through a paper bag or some sort that creates a rustling overlay, like is I were listening to something in a gale force wind.
I have some hypotheses about ear wax, but haven't found a correlation I can announce with confidence.

That's otitis. I've had that before. I went to a Doc and he said I can give you prednisone or you can wait 12 weeks and it will go away. Mine was caused by a eustachian (sp?) tube that wasn't draining the way it should.