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Another AN case
voron999:
Hello!
I am 48 year old, generally healthy, physically fit, male newbie from Madison WI on this forum.
Here is my MRI case as of 01/11/2017:
Impression:
1. 4 x 3 mm enhancing nodule in the left internal auditory canal, intimate with
8th cranial nerve, consistent with an acoustic neuroma.
2. Otherwise normal MRI of the brain.
I have had ear ringing for the last 5 years, on and off.
Attributed it to my few years worked as a factory worker without proper ear protections during my younger age.
The ringing became consistent during the last 1-2 years and this has been my new normal and I pretty much lived with it.
Hearing specialist told me it was pretty normal for my age and so I carried on.
Since about June 2016 I started having echo in my head, muffled hearing and uncomfortable internal head pressure.
It all started very abruptly. In fact, so abruptly that I rushed into ER to check my head for a possibly contusion issues (I coach kids in soccer and had a very hard "header" about 4 weeks prior). They did the CAT scan and found nothing fatally wrong with me and sent me home.
Shortly thereafter, the same hearing specialist checked me, prescribed a nasal steroid spray for my "allergy" that plugged my auditory canals into the middle ear and sent me home. (allergy - a typical conclusion they do now days for just about anything; I digress...)
Meanwhile nothing changed with my symptoms, and I started searching the web on my own and one of the immediate source was this forum.
I called my PCP for an appointment and reported on my web search results.
I did a good sales job and she scheduled me for MRI for the very next day.
So here I am.
Next appointment is on March 6 to see ENT specialist at UW hospital and we go from there.
Unsure what is next but what I have now is not really ideal case and something must change.
I have OK days and not so good days and just trying to carry on as usually the best I can (job, working out, family, thinking about the spring ahead - garden/bees/etc).
Meanwhile I will be reading this forum, searching more, and listening to advice.
Thanks for reading!
mac84:
Voron, the good news is that it's very small and you'll have plenty of time to simply watch and wait. No rush to do anything.
Hang in there and continue to ask questions and read all you can as you go through this. You'll find that once you get comfortable with the idea of the AN that it's just something else to get through. ;D
Cary
voron999:
--- Quote from: mac84 on January 20, 2017, 10:25:02 am ---Voron, the good news is that it's very small and you'll have plenty of time to simply watch and wait. No rush to do anything.
Hang in there and continue to ask questions and read all you can as you go through this. You'll find that once you get comfortable with the idea of the AN that it's just something else to get through. ;D
Cary
--- End quote ---
Thanks!
It is small by the examples I see here.
Though, looks like the symptoms vary case by case.
Some people with large ANs don't even know they have them.
I have this tiny AN and yet I feel it well, like about now, while trying to work.
Could be worth still, I guess.
Willbur:
Hi voron
Welcome to the club. I'm originally from Madison WI. My buddy works in the neurosurgeoy Dept at UW Hospital. They only do retrosigmoid according to him. That is beneficial in your case since it is so small.
voron999:
--- Quote from: Willbur on January 20, 2017, 12:45:37 pm ---Hi voron
Welcome to the club. I'm originally from Madison WI. My buddy works in the neurosurgeoy Dept at UW Hospital. They only do retrosigmoid according to him. That is beneficial in your case since it is so small.
--- End quote ---
Good to know, Willbur.
Thanks.
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