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For the longest time, my opinion was that the sound would just "go away". I lived with it, and did not concern myself, despite the fact the sound became more intense and more frequent. Indeed, it has already become a struggle to go about my daily routine while dealing with the loud noise.

This was the point that I started to think about my condition and decided to go to a physician to have him check on the ringing in my ears. This was also the only time that I started to realize that I just made a very big mistake. I should have consulted with my physician when the ringing was still not this noisy and persistent and things could have been much easier to handle.

I found out that I had punched a hole in my ear drum because I was cleaned my ears with a scraper. I used this because my earwax is not the moist kind and it is easy to get rid of it that way, as opposed to using cotton swabs. The doctor told me that using a scraper is really hazardous, since it is really easy to injure my ear drums using it.

This has been exactly my experience. Using an ear scraper to clean out my ears actually did damage to my eardrums. Because I'd gone too deeply into the ear canal when cleaning, I'd punctured the eardrum. That was where the ringing first originated. Because I ignored it when it was just a mild manifestation, it became louder and worse as I continued to injure them with my ear scraper. The ringing has now become very loud and disruptive to my life, and the damage to my eardrums has become much more serious.

This is a lesson learned for me, not to ignore any symptom which I may feel in the future because it can be a sign of an impending health problem. Early detection helps to solve the problem easily and in my case it could have prevented me from bringing more injury to my eardrums. If I could have consulted a physician the moment I started hearing that mild ringing in my ears, I could have stopped using an ear scraper and saved myself from having to experience tinnitus.