This past weekend I woke up and everything seemed dull and heavy (sound wise!) figured it was just my ears hadn’t popped as I had take a flight the day before. Things hadn’t changed the next few days and was at a point where I could not make out clarity from speech with even the slightest background noise, and I found the tv too much trouble to even want to bother.
Yesterday I went to hearing dr and to my shock my hearing had fallen off in all the high frequencies.
R 4K 10dec increase in loss - now 65d
6k. 20dec increase in loss - now 75d
8k. 20dec increase in loss - now 65d
L 4K 10 increase in loss - now 60d
6k. 15 increase in loss - now 65d
8k. 15 increase in loss - now 66d
She informed me it was “unusual” to have both ears to have sudden high frequency loss at the same time and sent me directly to ENT. There they said I had Eustachian Tube Dysfunction with they prescribed meds.
They informed me that they had gotten the same hearing results as my audiologist that morning and agreed the same that it was very unusual to happen in both ears ?
There they told me I had a Mild to moderately severe sloping mixed hearing loss (always had a pretty flat loss across the board) They have scheduled me for an MRI next week……
I asked the ENT and his audi to be blunt and tell me what they thought was going on….because now I actually feel part deaf without the aids (very worrying!) They told me they did not think the loss was from the Eustachian blockage as that should “effect the low frequency” and seems only the high have fallen off. They said they need to figure out why I now have had a sudden loss and why my conductive scores have shown a now “mixed loss”!!! I asked to they think this could be permanent and they said hopefully the meds will help but they can’t be sure it will as they think two separate things going on.
I am really a taken back by all this. I always had issues hearing background noise etc but never did I feel I was on the “deafer” side of hearing!!!
Has anyone had anything similar……heard of this etc. I’m really worried that this can progress further and what will my options be.
I went back to my audiologist today and she changed my aids to fit the new loss - thanks fully I can hear quiet well at moment (6hrs since update!)
I asked about my Oticon 1 aids and will they suffice and she said yes. That they will
Work all the way to 90 decibel loss and I’m still away from that………
Sorry if I’m rambling on but really want to understand what’s going on, people who had the same or similar etc. I have no problem with the truth once I can be ready for it and worried they are not telling me everything!!!