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right ear gone deaf overnight...

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rlespinel
rlespinel

I'm hoping you can tell me how this nightmare ended for you? Or is it still an on going nightmare? The same thing happened to me 10 days ago and everyone is totally stumped, including emergency room doctors, my specialist ENT, and every other person I've spoken to about this very scary experience I'm following ya thru.

I had 4 days of distortion and elevation change type pressure in my right ear (like as if I had just taken an airplane flight). No leakage, no draining, no real pain, no pop, nothing happened to injure my ear. On day five i awoke to complete deafness in my right ear. And it's now going on almost 2weeks of unexplainable hearing loss. I've got up coming testing, but I've already gotten a CT scan of my brain and there was nothing found that could cause this. Please any one. Help please! I need a hero,help me please.

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  • Olizzieo
    Olizzieo rlespinel

    Posted

    You poor thing!!! That is so scary!!! Why did they not do a hearing test in emergency? Did they check your middle ear pressure with a tympanogram? Also have they put you on steroids if you have experienced a sudden hearing loss? Can you pop your ears when you yawn? 
  • joseph47082
    joseph47082 rlespinel

    Posted

    I had this happen to me in both ears overnight.  Mine came after a relapse of an upper respiratory problem with a hacking cough and sore throat. No leakage, no drainage much like you.  

    One night I bent to kiss my wife goodnight and suddenly felt a sharp pain in my left ear. The pain got worse and I took Ibuprofen and it subsided, I got to sleep but woke up completely deaf in both ears, lost all of my hearing. 

    Although I waited a full week to see an ENT , I was given antibiotics by my ENT and also was told to take Ibuprofen as an anti-inflammatory along with antibiotics to be taken at home for a week.

    That has been over months ago. I am gradually  getting my hearing back to what it was, although probably have 80-85 %  .   I am not convinced It'll be restored there is too much distortion going on with my ears and how I interpret sounds, almost as if their is some kind of nerve damage or blockage of  Eustachian tube.

    I'm returning to the ENT  this  December . I'm also reading up on alternative measures in case I feel my ENT doctor can't help such as acupuncture.

    Good luck with your problem, I'll update. By the way, the diagnosis I was given was a bad bacterial infection. That I waited too long and as a result will gain back my hearing but in very slow increments.  Not sure I buy that.    

     

  • ihavenonickname
    ihavenonickname rlespinel

    Posted

    I wish I had an answer for you.

    I offer a suggestion...research the finest university with an esteemed medical school and an associated hospital/clinic. You will be seen by professors who have had great exposure to many things.

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