Does anyone here have experience with sensorineural hearing loss?
A week ago I lost all the low-frequency hearing in my left ear over the space of about 15 minutes. I've seen an ENT/audiologist and they diagnosed sensorineural hearing loss (nerve malfunction as opposed to a mechanical obstruction or traumatic damage). I have a course of steroids to take that can help to restore nerve function, but the odds of recovery are a non-spectacular 60% or so.
Has anyone here gone through this? Was your hearing the same after it recovered? If it didn't, how are you managing now? I'm finding it really hard in many ways - I can't focus on one person's voice if there's music or another conversation in the background, and my toddler's voice hits some kind of resonance that's so uncomfortable I basically have to leave the room. I'm really hoping that kind of thing gets better.
A week ago I lost all the low-frequency hearing in my left ear over the space of about 15 minutes. I've seen an ENT/audiologist and they diagnosed sensorineural hearing loss (nerve malfunction as opposed to a mechanical obstruction or traumatic damage). I have a course of steroids to take that can help to restore nerve function, but the odds of recovery are a non-spectacular 60% or so.
Has anyone here gone through this? Was your hearing the same after it recovered? If it didn't, how are you managing now? I'm finding it really hard in many ways - I can't focus on one person's voice if there's music or another conversation in the background, and my toddler's voice hits some kind of resonance that's so uncomfortable I basically have to leave the room. I'm really hoping that kind of thing gets better.
