Both my dh and I talked to Dr. Chang on 2 nights (I was in bed already Monday night). First of all, the group is great. He was in surgery all day, and I left e-mails and messages with two NP (who were in clinic) and the Dr. secretary. Between the 3 of them, they got all my information forwarded to him and he called me back after a long and busy day.
My 2nd audiogram showed my hearing was back to normal thru 1000 hz, but at 1500 it dibbed to 30, and at 200 to 50 and then a big old drop to the bottom after that. He said that was surprised that it was that good after just 24 hours of sudden hearing loss. It's not typical to see this right after CK, but he's seen it. Generally hearing comes back after the round of steroids. He's put my on 12M 7 day, then 8Mmg for 4, then 4mg fo 4. He's also puttling me on some type of blood platelet thinner, a step about aspirin, for a month. The steroids will the the stuff the does the work, but this might help out if the tumor is just pressing the nerve and it could help with blood flow. He also mention vitamin E and I don't remember the other one "C" for swelling.
He said it could be caused by the tumor dying and free radicals. I don't know what that is and will have to look it up. They can only guess. It would be cool if it was dying.
He said acupuncture is perfectly fine if it gives me reliefe and they even have a holisic department at Stanford. However, since it's not been giving me any since post-treatment, he suggests I save my money and time until perhaps we get thru his regiment. Maybe the acupunture is helping with swelling, as Marianne says, I just can't tell. Maybe that's one of the reasons my hearing came back so quickly. I have an appt. on Friday, so I have to make up my mind. The only thing is if you do too much, it's hard to tell what is really working on it.
The steroid is doing it's crappy stuff now after 5 days. I'm awake at 2:00, even after taking an ambien at 8:30. I'll be tired today. I was also full of energy this afternoon. Great - only 15more days of it! Ha!
Keep you posted.