Unilateral and Bilateral M.D.

The first is set for a regular amplifier since I have lost hearing in that ear.  The other 3 settings are varying degrees of pink noise, from soft to louder to mask my tinnitus. The audiologist set them up, you could pick any noise as a masker depending on what you hear as your tinnitus.

I never use the first setting because I always have tinnitus and sometimes just sleep with it in. Other times I will sleep with a headband that has built in flat speakers connected to my phone or iPod that plays white noise.

I also have a second device called a streamer pro that goes around my neck, if my tinnitus is louder than the 4th setting, I can connect the hearing aid through Bluetooth to my phone and the streamer to play an assortment of relief sounds, (I have been using this a lot lately since my symptoms have returned and sometime will listen to birds chirping, etc., anything that masks the sometimes maddening noise in my ear).

I hope this help, I live in New York, hearing aide was partially covered through insurance, it was several thousand and the streamer I had to buy, I believe it was several hundred but so worth it for me.

Good Luck.

Debbie

Thanks for the info Debbie,

Do they have blue noise for a boy...Lol..

just joking ..

I'm in england the e.n.t. has talked about hearing aids

but because i can not work i would have to rely on our

N.H.S but what they provide is pretty basic probably

your no 1 setting that you don't use..

I use an air filtrater for c.o.p.d.at night with a bit of imagination 

the fan sounds like running water and blends in with the tinnitus..

thanks again for the info..i have another e.n.t. in may ..

High Baggiebird,

Hope your holding up..

you have my sympathy for having lost some of your hearing

in both ears..The E.N.T. did talk to me about hearing aids do

they really work as i'm under the impression that they will amplify

the tinnitus as well as improving the hearing in other words

i don't want to hear what i hear now only louder..

I no what you mean about shorter attacks with less vertigo

it happens to me mainly when im walking or sudden head movments

it's slowed me right down and now i use a stick so if i feel an attack

i use it as a prop and stop to recover my balance...

High Bertman,

That's interesting that your M.D started with balance probs..

I believe my Meniere's started when i was 29 as when i played

guitar i would have tinnitus for a long time after and the fact that

it was only in the left ear and not both which was wierd i dont

nos if i had balance probs because being in the building trade

i was doing a lot of drinking but my mates were always saying i was accident

prone so may be it was not the beer but the actual attacks didn't start

until i was 40 and my deathness was slow in process from there..

do you still have any hearing left...

High Barry,

Thanks for the reply ..

I'm sorry to hear about your condition when was it you were first aware

their was something wrong with your good ear,

with me i noticed a need to turn the tv up higher and high pitched tinnitus

which i thought was tricks of the mind then i started getting high pitch and low

pitch tones the would come in quick and go just as quick this is when i decided

to get it checked out this is how it started in my bad here so i'm understandably 

worried.....

I am new to this forum but am wondering that when you said you were symptom free after you had the Labyrinthectomy for approx. 6-9 months was that also the tinnitus and has it stayed away.

I have md in my left ear it started after I washed my hair in the sink and got water in it. A year later after seeing my doc who referred me to an ENT who sent me to a audiologist who told me I was loosing my hearing (which I already knew ) 70 percent loss in that ear He suggested a hearing aid . I am trying not to get stressed out but my other ear had lost 60 percent hearing when I was told I had conductive hearing loss and a staphendectomy was performed 14 years ago and my hearing improved to 85 percent and is still holding .

now with being told I have md and loosing my hearing I am hoping this other ear will keep working

 I never had any vertigo or ringing in that right ear I was just loosing sound. With the left I have vertigo nausea vomiting and this horrendous noise in my ear.

Last week it was so bad I thought I was having a heart attack so My husband called an ambulance ( I have AFIBB and a leaky Valve)  My head felt like it was exploding with the pressure and the roaring in my ear was horrid to add to that I started vomiting so my stress level was sky high and I went in to full blown AFIBB .The attack has subsided but I am left with the horrendous screaming ear . the labyrinthectomy did it solve your problem ?

Stephen,

I actually did nor notice a dimunition in the hearing in my good ear. I started getting episodes of tinnitus, fullness in that ear, dizziness (where there had been none for months,) vertigo (where there had been none for months,) wooziness and nausea. It was only after meeting with my ENT to discuss the new symptoms that he suggested I have another audiogram. I just had that a week or so ago and that's when I found out about the diminished hearing in my good ear.

Barry

After the Labyrinthectomy, I was completely symptom free for almost 9 mos. It was only when I started developing bilateral MD that all of the symptoms returned.

Barry

Thanks Barry61472,

I had an audio last march at that time he told me

there was hearing loss in my good hear but it was consistent

for my age ..he went on to say there was a lot of wax buildup 

and booked me in for syringing to remove it..

i wish  he hand't now as i'v lost a lot of clarity in my good ear

due to that process..the very process you described is the same,

theres no fullness in the ear but i'v but my balance and my head feels

like an attack with no vertigo but ragein tinnitus in bad ear but not

so bad in the good ear also feeling sickly ...

i have another E.N.T. in may i no there is hearing loss so its matter

of wait and see...wishing you well ...stev