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sudden bilateral hearing loss

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blake94134
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two weeks ago my right ear felt muffled, that night i got tinnitus for the first time, which has persisted until now, and my ears rapidly lost hearing ability. I was misdiagnosed in the ER with an ear infection, but 3 ENTs are perplexed. I was prescribed 60 mg prednisone, and have since been downgraded to mild hearing loss. pitches are all slightly distorted however, and my ears have this popping sensation / crack. MRI showed nothing other than inflammed sinuses / mucous blockage. this seems to make sense- a sinus infection affecting the eustachian tube- but my tympanograms are normal. I am a 18 year old healthy pianst who depends on my ears, so does anyone have ideas? could the sinus inflammation affect the eustachian tube but not alter the tympanogram

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