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What I had 1 year ago was fluid behind the ear drums from a bad cold,the cold cleared up,but the fluid that was left travel down to the ear drums,behind them,so that put me in a state of pressure and no hearing at all! the pressure started to be release on the left ear took about a month,but the right ear did not release,so ENT said let’s put in tubes. Something though was telling me this might not be a good idea,did not do enough research on this matter for adults and anyway not much information about adults with ear tubes, I already had a hearing problem,but after tubes were put in had worsen,plus always hearing head noise,my voice sounded like I was under water when I would talk and so did others,so now I have to say low sounds are better and my voice sounds more normal and can also put my hearing aids do help,sorry this message was so long ha
The discussion may be relevant to your situation. Check it out and chime in if you’re interested. At some point in the thread there was a mention of the ENT going in with a tube and I was wondering the same myself on how that’d be possible without rupturing the eardrum.
I’ve had a bad case of cold runny nose lately and while it’s already cleared up a couple of weeks ago, I started getting that plugged up feeling on my right ear. It really affected my hearing, making it go from already bad to even worse, and I wasn’t sure whether I just experienced more hearing loss or whether it was something else.
Because I’m a DIY on the programming front, I even adjusted my right HA to compensate for the new loss. While the compensation made up for it, every time I took t…