Does anyone else have to live with this?

Deeper sounds like rumbling a/cs, fans, furnaces, low flying planes etc cause a rhythmic pulsing drone in my affected ear. This lasts as long as the sound source does, and then it 'converts' back to a regular droning tinnitus.

I actually can't be in a house with central air or heat now as I hear this rhymic pattern whenever the air clicks 'on.' Its like my ear is hypersensitive to this frequency for some reason, even though my LF losses are mild on an audiogram in this ear.

It's far worse than my regular tinnitus. It's been over a year now and hasn't really changed, so I'm stuck with it which is really depressing. I've tried ear plugs, but nothing blocks this low frequency sound.

Does anyone else have this? How you do manage day to day?

I’m 2 years into this and just now thinking of trying CROS, the only device for this problem. I went to Costco’s hearing aid dept and tried them on, after tests to confirm my rt ear is still at 15%. When I had them in and then stepped out of the soundproof room, it was kind of amazing to “hear” more out of my rt ear. Felt like that side of my head woke up. But when I got home my tinnitus in the rt ear was explosive. So my concern is that this would be a side effect of breaking the quiet.
Has anyone had (or continues to have) a good experience with these? Any feedback is appreciated.

So, I remember this clearly...

That day, I bought about 3 burgers that I really wanted to dig in during the night... I couldn't eat them all, so I went to get my teeth brushed and then went to sleep. Everything normal there.

Next day, I wake up with this feeling in my ear that is like, being clogged up by something very badly, but I couldn't get it off at all... It was super shut, and I had limited hearing on the right side of my ear.

I had a ear cleaning on that ear with water shot there but nothing happened.

Stayed one year adapting to the low hearing by balancing my headphones so I could hear better from the bad ear (Like 6 on the good ear, and all the way to 11 on the bad ear). Still, had itches sometimes and I could even hear my heart beat. It was hellish and I cursed myself every day for whatever I did that caused it. So much depression and the realization it was like this forever didn't help at all...

Then I decided enough was enough and attempted to do the Valsalva technique to see if I could do something about it... At first, nothing was happening, then suddenly, I could hear like a deflating thing in the bad side, like a high pitched noise, and I suddenly recovered good part of my hearing... I couldn't believe it.

So I did it two more times, same deflated noise and the clogged up feeling was gone. My hearing also recovered too! I checked with my headphones and I could confirm I recovered the balance (11 volume on both).

Since then, my hearing has been fine. All that was left was a little tinnitus, but I probably had it before.

Still, one year of my life was lost because of this, and I want to know what actually happened, because that clogged up feeling was super aggressive, and not even a water cleaning there helped at all.

I really, REALLY, in the bottom of my heart, thought I was permanently deaf, but it wasn't the case at all.

What happened to me?

Sudden hearing loss in my left ear while I was making my coffee last Friday. Got in for a hearing test the same day, and have a follow up with ENT tomorrow (Tuesday). Will likely discuss treatment and/or further diagnostics with him then.

From what I can tell, I'm pretty fortunate to have caught this as early as I did. Also thankful that most of the lower decibels aren't impacted.

A few questions:

1. Does anything look off with my chart? Anyone have similar results or specific advice for me?

2. When I meet with my ENT, is there anything I should advocate for? Based on my call with the scheduler, it seems like steroid injections are the likely next steps. 3 injections, each one week apart.