ANA Discussion Forum
General Category => Hearing Issues => Topic started by: marg on June 22, 2007, 04:25:37 pm
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Hi all,
I had a middle fossa surgery 5 1/2 weeks ago. The doctors tested and I did have hearing in that ear right after surgery ( I answered questions for them... which I hardly remember). Then 2 days after surgery I heard the doctor make noise by my AN ear again. At my hearing test 4 weeks after surgery I could not undersand the hearing test person saying words in the AN ear headphone... only garbled sound. 4 days after that I could no longer even hear a sound in that ear when I washed my hair (until then I could).
Well, fellow AN surgery friends, have any of you regained hearing several weeks/months later in your AN ear after not having it for a while? My neurosurgeon said he only has a couple patients who have regained hearing in a similar situation. He thinks maybe my hearing nerve 'stroked' because the nerve looked great at surgery time. Just wondering if there is any chance at all..... Thanks, Margaret
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Hi Margaret, I can only tell you what happend to me after my surgery. I also could hear or thought I was hearing right after surgery. I could talk on a cell phone and understand what was being said on my an ear. I did lose my hearing in my an ear a few weeks after I was home from the hospital. It was very hard to accept this and I was told the same thing, it usually does not come back. It slowly left. I don't know why. My doctor told me after my surgery that he made it 80% through my surgery when my hearing was lost, but even after I came home I knew I could still hear a little. It was hard, but I could hear and make out the words, But that isn't what happened. After the hearing test it was evident that I was hearing from my good ear. I do hope your's comes back. I just wanted to let you know my experience and what my outcome was. I will be thinking of you, BB
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Marg my experience was I had no hearing going into surgery, could hear some for a brief period after, at my adiogram a few months after surgery My an ear was flat. Nothing nada zilch. My last audiogram showed I have a teeny tiny bit of hearing but not serviceable. I was told by an adiologist and a hearing aid specialist it could take up to two years to truly know what I will have. Since I didn't have any going in I sure don't think it will come back. Have you talked to your doc?