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4 months after tympanoplasty my hearing has gotten worse.

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theresa93818
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I had tympanoplasty 4 months ago(with bioresorbable gel) on my left ear, outside and inside with patching a 20% hole in eardrum plus doctor said the small bones(stapes etc) were all encased in infection/scar tissue from previous infections and he freed them up, tested them and all was good.  Fast forward to today, my hearing loss is 45% compared to 35% before surgery.  Had problems since childhood including my ear drum did burst about 30 years ago.  Now it feels like something is pushing again my eardrum CT scan doesn't show much but when doctor looks at it under microscope in office there is something white and fairly firm behind ear drum.  I say, what if the bioresorbable gel did not absorb.  Doctor said no but he could not say for sure if it is cholesteatoma that is there but says he should go in to see remove as he has no answers and thinks the blockage that is compromising my hearing.  Plus maybe some ETD which I always suspect was my problem  Anybody?  I told him we would go back in but quite seriously might not do it except for the fact that I worry about the cholesteatoma.

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