Sensorineural Hearing Loss (1 Viewer)

[AAABatteries]

Have had plugged up hearing in one ear for about 3 weeks after a terrible cold sinus thing.

Anyone deal with this - sensorineural hearing loss? I’m sort of freaking out and don’t have complete info but this phrase was just thrown at me while I am waiting to see an ENT specialist.

Google has me freaking out. Lots of terms like “permanent“ and “irreversible“.

Talk me down folks!

my experience. not a recommendation. not a match for your circumstance (my ear didn't feel clogged or make weird or squishy sounds)

in Sept. 2021 i noticed diminished hearing in my left ear that after a few days became zero hearing in that ear.

(spoiler alert hearing ended up returning kind of gradually after a few weeks of zero hearing.

i had come to suspect that the issue might be related to suspected covid a few weeks prior.

i googled of course, and what do you know, there was reporting from Great Britain that hearing loss in usually the left ear only was a not uncommon covid symptom.

there was reportedly "some" success treating with corticosteroids (sp?), and i hoped to avoid doctoring with the ENT's i looked up.

so i started putting a little cortizone cream and Source Naturals colloidal silver in my tilted ear for 15-20 minutes 2 or 3 times a day.

after several days hearing began returning. all good now. no idea if it was "treatment" related or just time.

good luck to you. one ear is inconvenient, but it's scary to think "what if the other one goes".

Ham, is that you? Blink twice for yes.

 

[top dog]

I was in probably 3rd grade when the hearing tests in school showed I was losing my hearing in my right ear. Ended up being Cholesteatoma. I have no idea how many surgeries I've had on my ear from the age of like 8 - 22 but it was in double digits. Lost my ear drum and 2 of the bones you hear with. To this day only have about 25% hearing in that ear. When my wife insists on watching some horrible reality TV when I'm trying to go to sleep I just roll over onto my left ear and problem solved. When I forget to do something she told me to do I always go with "Oh. I didn't hear that." Works most of the time. My point is that everything can have a silver lining. Hoping your situation is just temporary though.

I'm exactly the same. Grew up pretty close to the Mayo Clinic, so they'd do experimental surgeries on me every few years to try new stuff. Got my entire hearing back once in my late 20s. But it only lasted about two weeks.

I've given up on ever being able to hear fully again. Honestly it doesn't really mess with me that much. Kind of messed me up when COVID hit because I never realized I read lips so much until everyone had a mask on. Occasionally at say a crowded restaurant I will have zero chance of hearing the waitress and have to turn to my wife and say "I have no idea what she is saying" and she will kind of help me out and be a go between. It's weird. I feel like I hear fine until there is just some background noise just right or whatever and it's over. Last surgery I had was over 20 years ago and the doc kind of opened my ear canal up to shape it like a bottle somewhat to allow it to properly drain. No longer got ear infections constantly and didn't need to wear earplugs when swimming anymore. After a lifetime of ear infections and having to wear an earplug even in the shower, it felt like a miracle. Just follow up with my new ENT once every 6 months to have him "clean it out" kind of deal.

 

[The General]

In the waiting room for ENT…average age in here has to be pushing 65.

I‘m too young for this ****.

 

[The General]

The ENT was very anticlimactic. No miracle cure. More info from WebMD…he just said it with authority.

Was aligned with the good docs here. Some type of nasty Eustachian Tube Disorder. Did some air thing into my ear and the tuning fork. Did not mention the Sensorineural Hearing Loss thing which was good.

It’s wild this just starts one day and goes on for months. Put it on the pile with all the other random ailments one collects through age

Follow up in a month with a hearing test and if it is still there discuss some tube in there, but he seemed to indicate this isn’t a great option so hopefully this just goes away. ****ing months of this is majorly annoying but whatever.

Thanks for the advice as usual lots of peeps on here were pretty close with limited info.

Hope no one else deals with this crap!