I used a mini-jackhammer to pull up tile today & I still havent regained full sound..?

Question:

I used the jackhammer to take up tile in my pops kitchen, and it was echo-ing and loud as hell. I still have a little fuzziness in my ears, but its worse than after a concert, can anyone tell me how long this will last

Answers:
I used to be an audiology tech in the military. Besides medic, surgery tech, etc.
It sounds to me that it could be just temporary. If you have to use jackhammer or any loud equipment.make sure you use ear plugs. Sometimes it is permanent but I feel if it was regular jack hammer youd be in troble.
You learned a valuable lesson protect your ears.
liz

you may have done permanent injury which may show up as increasing deafness as you age. People use ear plugs to prevent this - duh!

probably permanent.people just don't realize how easily you can do it

It will decrease little by little with the time being,around a week.

I don't know. I have had some hearing damage due to loud music in headphones. Don't mess with this; go to your doctor or dentist and ask about hearing loss and maybe TMJ too. (Loud noise can cause you to clench your jaw and/or grind your teeth, which can cause jaw problems, which can cause hearing problems due to disturbance of the external auditory meatus [the place at the junction of your jaw and skull where the Eustachian tube goes through].)

I hate to say this, but you may have permanently damaged your hearing. You need to have a doctor check this out to know for certain.
In the future, please use hearing protection for this kind of work. Once you lose your hearing, only a miracle can restore it.

I used a mini-jackhammer to pull up tile today & I still havent regained full sound..?

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