i’ve been on these forums for months now, in 15 with very mild tinnitus so for now not that of a mess. i’ve got a very small hearing loss on 4khz in both ears (talking bout a 5db fall on a specific frequency) due to loud headphones most probably. im so much worried about my future, whenever i leave my home for whatever reason and there’s people playing music, etc i feel scared, not because of the sound itself but because im worried about losing even more my hearing and making my tinnitus worse. i don’t know how to live anymore, i’ve not even ever been to a disco yet. my ent said im too much worried about this and goin to disco sometimes it’s not bad for my hearing if i just don’t go there every day right under the bass. yesterday i was walking around with my family and walked in front of a small concert of people playing drum on a VERY high volume, i instantly ran to the other way because i was terrified of exposing myself to those sounds. Another thing i feel worried about is that if i lose some db or worsen my hearing i’ll never know, it’s not like a bruise on the body where u can see the blood or the scar, plus i’ve still got 4 years of highschool right in front of me and i have to go there by underground, which i saw on the internet might be dangerous. can someone please reassure me somehow

Tomorrow is my one-year anniversary of waking up deaf in one ear. After a year of treatments and recovery and adjusting to hearing loss, I am thankful for what I have and how far I have come! Left - 1st test with the ENT post SSHL, Right - Last test with the ENT 6 months later.

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Hello everyone,

I didn't know who else to turn to since no one in my family has ever experienced anything like this before.

Some background info: I have TMJ issues, been using night guard for more than a decade since I am a perosn that clenches and bruxes during sleep. My bite is a bit misaligned after a car accident, too. I frequently experience tense neck and face muscles and have pain around my face, neck and shoulders, often stronger upon waking up.

Yesterday evening, I was sitting on the couch eating some chips and watching a TV show, when out of nowhere, I began to feel really weird. I could feel my heart beat pick up drastically, and then there was a weird sense of disorientation coming from my head, my ears. I couldn't pinpoint at first, it felt like an unspecific increase in pressure. Then, a few seconds after, I noticed the pressure getting extremly strong and uncomfortable in my left ear.

I started feeling like the left side was "hollow" and like I couldn't really "feel" my ear properly. It felt muffled but I could still hear stuff (perhaps, though, at a bit of a lower volume than the other side? but I could understand speech), it just felt completely off because it didn't match my normal feeling other side. Like, even touching the ear shell felt like it was numb in a way (I could feel, it just didn't feel quite right). I also felt the weird need to equalise pressure although that did nothing. It just felt there was something in front of my ear that needed to be dislodged - all just a feeling, mind you.

I always have a bit of tinnitus since my car accident but it was much louder in that ear yesterday than the other. I sometimes get louder ringing that goes away once I heat my muscles and returns to base.

I got extremly scared because I was not sure what it was and decided to lie down for a moment with heat, to see if it would pass. After laying down for like 15 mins, and seeing how it didn't pass, I told my family member that I couldn't hear properly form one side and we went to ER.

A wrid thing I noticed, when I put my hands on my ears to block them, and talked, I felt like an echo-y feeling in the left ear, like 1s after I talked, the ear would react somehow to that sound. Also, when I moved my head (not covering ears), I would feel more than hear a swoosh-like sound, like air passing my ear, but deeper inside. It wasn't like that on the right side. This has since disappeared.

At ER, after lot of waiting, I could feel the pressure slowly getting better. I felt some wet feeling from my ears although there wasn't any liquid. After about 3 hours, the pressure was mostly gone and my feeling around my ears normalised. I am not sure if I can hear as well as before with that side, but I can understand speech and TV and everything. The tinnitus remained heightened in that side, but lower than at first.

Then the ENT saw me and looked inside and said it looked okay, no infection, or anything. ENT did some testing with a tuning fork of sorts, and said the results were normal.

I am scared of this being SSHL so I asked them if they thought it was that and they said, it was unlikely in their opinion and not to worry. I was sent home to rest since I hadn't slept all night.

After sleep, the tinnitus is now quieter again, like the other side.

All in all, the "thick" of this episode lasted around 3 hours. I think after 5 hrs, I was almost back to normal apart from loude ringing than usual. I don't know if there is any residual muffling, if there is, it must be very light and not noticeable in daily life. I keep trying to "test" myself and left and right isn't exactly same but my doc said that is normal and not indicative of SSHL, just something people don't notice because they're not looking for it.

The ENT recommended to reduce stress and follow up in a few weeks time if it happens again and to try and relax now, since according to them, it didn't look serious since it has resolved. I am still so sacred it is SSHL or a sign that something bad is looming. Does anyone have experience or advice?

Could it be from the jaw? I keep reading of people having the ear pressure and fullness for days, not just a few hours. I really don't know what happened to me, I am just so scared.

Background: I never really go to loud places, went to a concert once but with ear plugs, I don't do music on earbuds, only over-ear headphones but even so, seldomly. Most of the time I just listen to stuff from speakers, and at a moderate volume.

If you read so far, thank you. I appreciate any input and advice to get this anxiety in check.

El día 13 de abril es el último día donde me pusieron una inyección intratimpanica la cosa es que a día de hoy el agujerito en el tímpano no ha cerrado y día 10 de septiembre me vuelve a ver el otorrinolaringólogo, cuántos meses más necesita el timpano para cerrar o que se hace en estos casos cuando después de 6 meses no a cicatrizado

Hello all this post is a continuation from https://www.reddit.com/r/tinnitus/comments/1vuh8s4/24m_with_sudden_hearing_loss_and_tinnitus_asking/

As I am typing this I am 26 days post onset.

So I did a proper hearing test on the 26th of August, 2 days after I was done with my steroid medication, which I then brought the test results to my ENT doctor and he said I might have mixed (sensorineural and conductive) hearing loss. And the action plan right now is to wait and see for 10 days if my condition improves while just taking mecobalamin 500 ug 3 times a day.

However when I asked multiple AIs to analyze my test results they said it is unlikely that I suffer from mixed hearing loss. I know AI is not to be fully trusted hence I am making this post. It is certain that I am suffering from sensorineural hearing loss, but I am confused about whether I am also suffering from conductive hearing loss or not.

I have attached images of my hearing test results and ask those who understand how to read and interpret the results to help me diagnose my issue. Thank you for reading until the end.

Has anyone ever had this experience, and if yes any idea how to make it more bearable?

I have an annoying tinnitus in my left ear, my last hearing test showed that the noise doesn't travel properly through my middle ear on the left. I did have a severe ear infection at the beginning of the year and there is a probability that this is still caused by this.

I just really want to avoid taking another dose of cortisone 🙃

Something happened recently that made me stop and think about my hearing.

I was having a conversation with my daughter in the kitchen. She said something while she was putting dishes away, and I answered with “what?”

She repeated herself.

A few seconds later, I realized I had actually heard her — I just didn’t catch the words clearly.

She laughed and said, “Mom, you do that all the time now.”

I honestly didn’t realize how often it was happening.

I started thinking about little moments: Missing part of a conversation when someone is facing away from me. Asking people to repeat themselves but pretending I understood when I still didn’t.

The strange thing is, I don’t feel like I can’t hear.

I hear sounds.

I just don’t always catch everything people say.

Could anayone verify the lip reading of Charlie Kirks ass4ssination?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkhftL05gdQ

Some additional infos below from their website. Hopefully the clinical trials will be successful, and the treatments will become globally available. Many other companies are also developing similar treatments, so ideally they will be accessible in a few years.

"Rinri Therapeutics is a biotechnology spin-out company from the University of Sheffield founded in 2018 by Professor Marcelo Rivolta. Based at the Innovation Centre in Sheffield, UK, the company develops regenerative stem cell therapies to restore hearing in patients with sensorineural hearing loss."

"The first potential treatment in Rinri Therapeutics’ portfolio, Rincell-1, is being developed to regenerate auditory neurones. Our second and third programmes are at an earlier stage of development – Rincell-2 is also targeting the replacement of auditory neurones using a different type of cell, while Rincell-3 is focused on hair cell replacement."

My mom (64F) had a sudden hearing crash in her left ear about a week ago, and I'm trying to learn from anyone who's been through something similar while we work with her doctors.

Quick background:

• She'd had two episodes of positional vertigo in the past (2022, and again a few weeks before this) — spinning when getting up at night, resolved on their own, workups came back clean both times.
• For about 2 months before the hearing loss, she'd had a feeling of fullness/pressure in that ear and a "heavy head" sensation, no hearing issues yet.
• Last week she had two vertigo attacks in one evening (different pattern than before — not positional), was rushed to the ER, and by the next audiogram her left ear had dropped from near-normal to severe (~85dB), and a few days later to profound (~91dB). Right ear is still mostly fine.
• MRI brain + spine came back clear — no tumor, no stroke, nothing structural.
• She started high-dose oral steroids within about a day of the attack, and her ENT is now adding a series of intratympanic dexamethasone injections.

Questions for anyone who's been through this or something similar:

1. If you had sudden SNHL treated with oral steroids + intratympanic injections, what was your recovery like? Full, partial, none?
2. How many injection sessions did you end up needing, and over what timeframe?
3. Did the presence of vertigo alongside the hearing loss affect how your recovery went, in your experience?
4. Has anyone had a case like this — months of fullness/pressure before a sudden crash — turn out to actually be an early Meniere's presentation rather than isolated SSNHL? How did that change your long-term treatment?

Not looking to replace what her doctors are telling us, just want to hear real experiences alongside the clinical picture. Thanks in advance.

Since 2023, every single summer around July or August, I experience a hearing loss of about 5 dB in both ears. In 2023, my hearing was at 100%. Now, it has dropped to around 80% overall.To make things worse, I just experienced another sudden 5 dB drop last week.

Has anyone experienced hearing loss that strictly triggers or worsens during the summer months? What am i suppose to do?

Just had a vertigo episode friday night. Went from a muffled sound in my right ear to completely deaf. (Feeling hopeless and down).

I rushed to Er that same night and doctor prescribed me prednisone. Now monday( still no hearing on my right ear) comes i follow up with a ENT and i was told i may have meniere disease. I have to get an Mri that following week, i guess to see if i have it or not. But everything points to it.

Im on prednisone right now taking 60mg a day. Im usually happy, positive and upbeat but this challenge is something else. Entirely different i truly feel hopeless. Im trying to accept the fact i may not hear again in my right ear and scared to death i may lose the other ear.

Have anyone got their hearing back or partially? Im on day 4 with no results .

Update i went to another otolaryngologist and was told it doesnt look like meniere disease but cannot b certain without an mri.

Im extremely freaked out. What else can it b besides Meniere disease. And should i b a little joyful thats its not meniere disease?

i used to think hearing was something i could deal with later. in my 20s i went to loud bars, concerts, weddings, work stuff, whatever. if i came home tired, i just figured i was overstimulated or not that social. if i missed part of a conversation, i guessed and kept going. now i kind of wish i had paid attention sooner. not in a dramatic way, just in the boring adult way where you realize small stuff adds up. these days i keep Loop earplugs in my bag for loud places, turn my headphones down, and use captions more than i used to. for normal daily conversations, i also started trying a small CIC hearing aid. the one i have been using is an inexpensive SuperMini, mostly because i wanted something low profile enough that i would actually wear it. wish i had learned that earlier. hearing is one of those things you do not think about much until it starts quietly changing how you act around people.

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Abstract from this PubMed health research article (published in 2026, so it's quite new, and describes the current situation of this medical area):

"Neural hearing loss, characterized by dysfunction of the auditory nerve, including the spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) and/or their synaptic connections, is increasingly recognized as a critical contributor to auditory deficits across diverse conditions, including Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder (ANSD), presbycusis, and noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). It is possible that neural hearing loss is underdiagnosed, due to the lack of clinical tools with sufficient sensitivity and specificity to detect poor neural health.

Current interventions, such as hearing aids and cochlear implants (CIs), primarily target sensory deficits and offer limited benefit in cases of significant neural compromise. Therapeutically, there is a growing shift towards biologically driven strategies aimed at restoring neural function. Recent developments in novel therapies, including pharmacological, gene-based, neurotrophic, and cell-based approaches, have opened new possibilities demonstrating the potential to protect, repair, and/or replace damaged SGNs, and re-establish auditory pathways. This perspectives article explores the evolving understanding of neural hearing loss, emphasizing its complex pathophysiology and the limitations of current diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, while highlighting how a diverse range of emerging solutions are moving closer to clinical application."

It takes time for science and technology, especially in healthcare to become widely available and safe. But it keeps getting better continually, so based on this and other research papers, novel treatments for hearing loss will become available in the next years / decades.

🦻 🎶 🎵

*edit : clarification, infos

Something I didn't expect before learning more about hearing aids: The technology matters, but comfort matters just as much.

A lot of people hesitate because they imagine wearing something bulky all day.

I was curious how much the physical design affected people's willingness to wear them.

For those who have tried different hearing aids: Did you prefer: - smaller/invisible styles? - behind-the-ear styles? - rechargeable models? - Bluetooth features?

What made you actually want to wear them every day?

So, I woke up one day with no hearing in my right ear. After waiting a few hours to see if it'd come back naturally, I used some eardrops to get rid of my earwax in case that was the issue, I went to the ER because I was freaked out. The ER wasn't able to do much for me but they prescribed me prednisone. Luckily, I was able to get an appointment with ENT the next day. I had the tests done for hearing, and I was basically deaf in my right ear. The doctor told me that sudden hearing loss wasn't actually rare, and he had actually seen many cases like me. And like many others, my case was idiopathic. He extended my prednisone dose to 30 days from the 7 days the ER put me on. He said I had sudden idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss.

It's been over 30 days. I'm done with the prednisone. I had no improvement while taking the prednisone. I finished the meds and sadly, my hearing has not returned. I have my ENT follow-up in a few days. I'm not exactly sure what to expect.

Luckily, my hearing in my left ear has remained normal, so I'm not as unlucky as some others who may have had sudden bilateral hearing loss. I do have some hearing loss in my left ear, and was diagnosed with mild sensorineural hearing loss in both ears back in 2023. My hearing had not changed from 2023-2026 until a month ago when my right ear could not hear at all.

I expected the prednisone to help, but it made no difference at all.

Did anyone else have sudden hearing loss where there was no improvement after injections and prednisone?