OMG I've gone deaf!

[sagaciouslu]

Actually, I have.  I lost hearing in my right ear in late July.  After waiting a couple of weeks for it to clear (I figured just a blockage), I went to see my GP.  She couldn't see anything external, and so prescribed some blow liquid into your nose thing.  She figured a plugged eustachian tube (as did I).  After a week, no luck.  So, referral to

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[anonymous]

Ugh, I hope it resolves itself for you. Have you suffered any sort of physical trauma prior to the onslaught? Hubby had intense vertigo attacks after a fall on wet rocks on Galiano Island ("Dude, those rocks are slippery--it isn't worth the photo--THUD!") It was pretty grim--he could be driving along, happy as a clam, then suddenly be overwhelmed by nausea and dizziness. After being told by his GP to just get used to it, there was nothing to be done, a trip to the chiropractor solved that--Jordan Lunge @ Back to Motion (Thorncliffe, Northmount Drive and 4th Street NW) is awesome. The difference was night and day,. We have since moved to Vancouver Island, but Jordan seems to have sorted him right out. He was also left with persistent tinnitus. Acupuncture helped with the day to day. But after waiting almost 2 years to see an ENT (one who actually is into the E---Ears!, and having suffered a miscue in which the GP referred him to a specialist who only deals with children) he learned that eventually the tinnitus will go--but it will

[sagaciouslu]

Thank you! Everything seems stable for now. Happily, no tinnitus and no vertigo. Those two facts both pleased and surprised the two ENTs. I suspect that, for most patients, the vertigo and/or tinnitus is intransigent and difficult in terms of identifying the cause. Right now, it seems that my hearing in one ear fluctuates between pretty good and bugger all.

I'm lucky. Given how much discomfort I've discovered an ear condition can cause, I'll be lucky if my hearing is only, merely impaired...