Stapedotomy noise exposure concerns

Hi,

Im a 27 year old guy from Sweden who was diagnosed with otosclerosis a few years back now. Got it in both ears but mostly in my left, which I got a Stapedotomy done in about 6 weeks ago now. I have been very concered about my hearing improvement over the last few weeks. But then a new concern arose which made me forget all about the hearing gains for now. Last weekend (about 5 weeks post op) I had my first real social weekend interaction since the OP. So without describing the whole scenario, I was exposed to some pretty loud music for about 2-3 minutes and was very close to the source of it, this was not at some club or anything but at home close to a pretty normal surround sound speaker, nothing too powerful. But still, since then (for a week now) I had had some insane ringing in my operated ear. There are different sounds, one pretty low pitch sound (almost like a guitar amp with nothing plugged in) and then a very high pitched sound that I can hear my heartbeat through. I talked to my Doctor and he told me that my ear is very sensitive to sound in the beginning and that the sounds should most likely subside as my ear heals. However, I am interested if anyone here has had a similar experience when it comes to being exposed to sounds after surgery. I'm kinda worried, these sounds are disturbing both my sleep and my work in a very bad way.

Happy to answer any questions if there are any.

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