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General Category => Hearing Issues => Topic started by: lunar on July 22, 2011, 12:07:41 pm

Title: Hearing
Post by: lunar on July 22, 2011, 12:07:41 pm

Hi everyine.  I've never posted on a forum about this before and I know I should go to my doctor but I wanted to ask is it normakl to have hearing for a few weeks and then lose it for two weeks? I don't lose it completley it's just very dull, almost nothing like when you wear ear plugs, does anybody else get this?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Hearing
Post by: Jim Scott on July 22, 2011, 12:16:56 pm

Lunar ~

I never had the loss of hearing you describe (mine just slowly got worse in the affected ear) and I'm not a doctor so I won't attempt to offer any explanations.  I will recommend that you see your doctor and  if he/she doesn't see a problem they'll very likely refer you to an ENT physician.  My only advice is that, if the ENT doesn't seem to find anything wrong with the ear, that you request he/she order an MRI scan 'just in case'.  Frankly, I hope you just have a build-up of 'ear wax'.  My son had that once or twice and it was treated in the doctors office by the Physicians Assistant.  His hearing immediately returned to normal.  That was a decade ago.  Perhaps you'll be as fortunate.  Please let us know.  Thanks.

Jim  

Title: Re: Hearing
Post by: CHD63 on July 22, 2011, 12:32:50 pm

Hi lunar .....

Jim has already given you a good answer so I will not repeat.

I did not have my hearing go and then come back.  My hearing loss was sudden and felt like it was stopped up or that I was up on a mountain.  Some AN patients do have loss and then come back again for a while, or until treatment.  Can be quite different.

Like Jim, I would urge you to see your doctor and have it checked.

Let us know what you find out.

Clarice

Title: Re: Hearing
Post by: TJ on July 22, 2011, 02:29:16 pm

Lunar

You might want to ask your doctor to check you for Meniere's Desease.  I have an AN on the right side and Meniere's on the left side.  Meniere's does exactly what you are talking about.  One day you can hear fine and the next day you can't hardly hear anything.

Just a thought

TJ

Title: Re: Hearing
Post by: Syl on July 29, 2011, 08:20:22 am

Lunar:

About 3 years prior to my AN, I had some hearing loss w/ lots of crackling in that same ear. I went to the Dr. It turned out to be an ear infection. I got some meds for it. My hearing returned to normal after the ear healed.

Unfortunately, 3 years later I got sudden hearing loss that turned out to be the AN in that same ear & my hearing loss was permanent that time.

Please go see a doctor. Hopefully, your situation is not an AN.

Syl

Title: Re: Hearing
Post by: mattsmum on July 30, 2011, 04:43:30 am

lunar - my AN gave me intermittent hearing loss such as you describe. i was convinced i had wax/glue etc.
i did also have balance problems i attributed to my age (i was 44 at the time...) and tinnitus, and only sought referral when i noticed facial numbness. at that time my hearing was normal. sadly my hearing has deteriorated considerably now and not recovered, so do go and see someone.
bw vikki

Title: Re: Hearing
Post by: Mei Mei on July 30, 2011, 03:17:36 pm

Dear Lunar,
I'm just chiming in here to add that I had the similar experience so do go to the ENT and have the doctor order an MRI to straighten things out.
Mei Mei