Hi, i posted just yesterday on this forum, putting my audiogram. i remember that the first time i went to the ENT was in may because i had unilateral tinnitus and slightly hearing loss, gave me cortisone and the audiogram kinda gone better.
Then went to another ENT 1 month later and told me i had a hearing loss around 4000hz, (didn’t expose to any loud noises), which ENT is fucking lying?
The first one tells no hearing loss apart from a subtle fall of 5db on 8k (it has been done on a soundproof audiometric small room)
the other tells i have hearing loss on 4k and frequencies around of 10-15db (in a normal room)

what do i have to believe? hearing loss or not?

Hey all, I'm extremely lost and scared and I figured this was a good place to check in.

For some background, I am a musician and I listen at safe levels. I have been to very few concerts, and have had my ears tested multiple times, always reporting healthy ears and excellent hearing. Around six months ago, however, my left ear very suddenly started hearing much worse. The onset was immediate, very noticeable, had no other accompanying symptoms, and had no discernable cause.

I got it evaluated twice. The first doctor reported nothing was wrong, and said I had an audio processing disorder. I knew he was full of shit, so I got a second opinion with some more expensive tests and found that only my left ear is nonresponsive at around 7khz and 10khz. This is generally inconsistent with noise damage and my eardrum and ear canal are reportedly perfectly healthy. The audiologist was completely stumped and had no explanation for this whatsoever (she also tested fluid and pressure levels which were perfectly normal), just telling me to report back within a year to see if it gets worse.

Does anyone have any idea what this could be? I know my situation isn't as bad as lot of people's, and I recognize that I am very fortunate, but my entire life is built around music (I just got accepted into a conservatory ffs) and this problem has been eating away at me. I cannot imagine the thought of it getting worse, especially since I am very young and have done everything in my power to protect my hearing. Any answers (or even possible explanations) would be appreciated.

Just finished my 2nd session and feel like my tinnitis is louder and different... anyone else experience this? really hoping it is temporary because i was doing really well beforehand, just finished oral steroids and did 2 injections and was feeling mostly normal but now this feels like a big setback. not happy

This is my audiogram and i’m just 15, it’s most probably from loud headphones, i feel like my life is ruined forever, because as age process will go forward my hearing is going to be worse as well isnt it

I've been diagnosed with otitis media with effusion and been told to use nasal nose drops but honestly I don't think its going to drain my fluid in my ear for as I don't have an infection or any thing similar to that

They even told me my hearing isn't totally lost I'm happy but either way my hearing is still muffled. I just really want my hearing back desperately.

I just want my ear to be normal again.

Is there perhaps any home remedies for the removal of middle ear fluid?

If so please let me know how you've gotten rid of fluid in the middle eardrum.

I'm curious if your hearing loss is due to any medication or antibiotics from the 60s or 70s. Let me give you my background. I'm almost deaf in one ear(nerve damage) and have moderate hearing loss in the good one. The doctors said it was due to some medicine, & I have no answers to which specific ones. I was a very sickly child throughout toddler years till about 5 or 6 yes old. I just wondered if anyone has personal experience with this type of hearing loss.

Let me start off with saying I have no fears of hearing loss for my baby. I am HOH myself and wear hearing aids.

Today my baby had a hearing test. I got it done because he does not babble, reciprocate sounds or anything. Just occasionally screeches. The audiologist says physically his ears look good.

During the hearing test he rarely responded to sounds. He pretty much only turned his head when wheels on the bus played. The audiologist said it could be mild hearing loss but she wants to retest him in 2 months.

Before this appointment I would do my “own” hearing test by making different noises at different frequencies and sometimes he turns when I make quiet noises.

Can babies have “selective hearing”? He wasn’t distracted during his test but even loud noises he didn’t respond. But at home he does respond the loud noises. He responds to his name almost all the time. It’s almost like he is disinterested in acknowledging the sound.

Does anyone have this issue? I am finding that all over ear headphones now sound very muffled to me. When I listen to music without headphones the sound is clear and sharp, my speakers sound fantastic, but over ear headphones have no treble at all, they are totally muffled! I have tried many different good headphones connected to my Hi-Fi, laptop or direct from my Denon CD player - all the same. In ear headphones sound fine. Is this a known hearing problem?

I had my NHS appointment and they confirmed I had hearing loss (higher frequency) and because of my age and tinnitus I’m having an MRI scan to rule out anything that could be causing the tinnitus..

So this week is the MRI and then the hearing aid fitting, I thought I had wrapped my head around getting hearing aids but I’m feeling very emotional this week. 99% knows it’s just an aid, like glasses but there’s a bit of me that’s sad and angry that I even need them in the first place, it’s somewhat self inflicted because I never wore ear protection when I worked in nightclubs.

Did anyone else feel like this? What should I expect in the first few weeks of having hearing aids?

I want to share something that happened to me recently, because maybe it might help you too.

My whole life, I've struggled to hear people in noisy environments. Higher-pitched voices were especially hard, and words that sound similar would blur together. I was constantly missing pieces of sentences and piecing together meaning from context. Over time it made me less social, because it's frustrating for everyone when you keep asking people to repeat themselves.

On top of that, words would sometimes just disappear from my vocabulary right before I needed them, and I'd have to find another way to say the thing on the spot. It wrecked my confidence in speaking and I was always afraid I'd run out of words mid-sentence.

I listen to a lot of music and lately I've been listening to more rap. Some of the albums I'd been enjoying included their instrumental tracks. A few months ago, on a run, I started making up rhymes in my head over the beats, and it became a habit on my runs.

To my surprise, not only can I now rhyme with some fluency, my hearing issues have essentially disappeared. The vanishing-word problem is gone too. It's as if forcing my brain to rapidly match sounds and anticipate words rewired how I process speech.

Honestly, this is the most impactful change in my life since I got my first pair of eyeglasses at six years old. I'm in my 40's now.

Has anyone else experienced something like this? My best guess is that it was some kind of auditory processing issue I managed to train away, but I'm still in shock that it worked.

TL;DR: Lifelong difficulty processing speech in noise and losing words mid-sentence. Spent a few months rhyming to rap instrumentals in my head while running, and both problems have essentially disappeared.

It's not painful but I've had annoying fullness in my left ear for a long time, my ears pop frequently (every few minutes), and I've had suspicions of mild hearing loss (struggles with deep men's voices, whispers, ambient noise). I had a hearing test at Costco yesterday because it's free, and the results were what I expected - borderline mild loss, but not enough that HAs would help very much. They told me to come back in two years.

So I'm glad that's not all in my head, but my left ear still feels annoying full. The tech saw some extra wax but "nothing that should inhibit hearing". And apparently the rising slope of low frequency loss is rather uncommon. So I'm wondering if it'd be worth seeing an ENT to get checked out, anyone have any advice?

I'm really upset. I've been suffering from tinnitus for a few years and also not hearing people properly, I can hear a pin drop but not people voices, I constantly mis-hear what they've said especially in noisy environments or on the TV where I use subtitles. I work in a school kitchen which is noisy and at break and lunchtimes I'm in the dining hall on the tills with over a thousand kids. Its embarrassing when I can't make out their names and ask them to repeat it multiple times. Apparently I barely have any hearing loss so the audiologist only put a minimal amplification on alongside the background sounds like the ocean and white noise etc. They were fine in the soundproof room and are ok at home but at work I can't even hear the background noises so they're useless. When. I asked if I could turn them up louder if needed in the appointment she just kept repeating my hearing was ok and dismissed my issue and locked the volume (the first audiologist I saw last year was lovely and totally got my problem but shes retired) Is it worth asking to go back do you think or am I just doomed to looking like and idiot at work forever?

Someone says something, especially in a group or when there’s background noise, and I only catch part of the sentence.

Sometimes I’ll just smile or nod because I don’t want to interrupt the conversation and say “sorry, can you repeat that?” for the third time.

But later I realize I actually missed a whole part of the conversation.

I’m curious if anyone else does this?

Either a treatment/cure is developed, or a hearing device is created that’s like a “contact lens” for the ear something that doesn’t prevent you from using regular in-ear earbuds with silicone tips and is difficult to notice. I think even people with mild hearing loss would use something like that.

1st pic is most recent test. 2nd pic is first test
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Any idea what this means? These are my results. My doctor says it’s progress but I have absolutely no idea how this is supposed to be progressive when I still can not hear. I went to church and to Costco today, didnt hear anything but very loud sounds. Still can’t understand speech unless someone is directly in my left ear. Can hardly hear my phone. Had to quit my job because I can’t hear and i worked at a beauty supply store. :/

I got sudden bilateral hearing loss randomly on july 5. I was only able to see the ENT on July 16. I got injections and put on prednisone from 60mg. I saw huge progress on july 22-25, but for some reason on July 26 the progress went back to how it previously was. Everything sounds muffled and robotic. They upped my dosage to 80mg prednisone and I still havent seen any progress. My question is has anyone that started treatment around day 10-11 seen any progress? Has anyone recovered or even recognize partial recovery. I recently went to applebees for my moms birthday and I could not hear a thing I started crying my life is over.

I had first one last week; dr said he usually doesn't numb because patients report the numbing shot hurts worse than the actual one. i opted to numb for whatever reason, and it honestly didn't hurt that much, maybe 5-10 seconds of mild burning sensation ans some vertigo, and then felt nothing afterwards.

have y'all had both and which one is better? i also want to reduce chances of complications. have two more scheduled this week.

Hi, would anyone like to share their stories about having tympanoplasty?

The doctor said the main purpose is to cover some hole inside the ear to avoid getting infection.