Anyone have Sudden Sensorineural hearing loss? (implant, blood, health issues, surgery)

[I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA]

I was diagnosed with Sudden Sensorineural hearing loss today in one ear, there seems to be no cause or cure for it. Is anyone familiar with it? Sometimes I can hear just fine another times I can't.

[redhat]

Yes, I was diagnosed last December with sudden sensorineural hearing loss. I comletely loss the hearing in my right ear! Steroid treatments didn't help at all. Now I'm considering surgery to have a hearing device called a baha implanted. Do you know anything about these?

[VillageLife]

I do have some ringing in the left ear,it probably caused a little hearing loss.I have a post somewhere.I probably should be tested for sudden sensorineural hearing loss.
what is the symptom

[I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA]

Originally Posted by redhat

Yes, I was diagnosed last December with sudden sensorineural hearing loss. I comletely loss the hearing in my right ear! Steroid treatments didn't help at all. Now I'm considering surgery to have a hearing device called a baha implanted. Do you know anything about these?

No I haven't heard about that. My doctor said they don't know what causes it,is that what they told you too? My hearing has been coming and going, but the last few days it's more gone.

[CosmicWizard]

Read my post #5 from another thread.

blessings.....Franco

[Heavenly Woman]

Hi, I became a member on City-data just because of you...I love North Carolina. Actually I bumped into REDHAT's thread first re:BAHA implant. Then I found your's and you said "God is Good ALL the time" and I wanted to shout out "ALL the time, GOD is GOOD!"

So, re: sudden hearing loss. I'm also a victim of sudden hearing loss. Within a 2 -3 hour I was profoundly deaf in my Left ear. They think a virus hit the nerve. I was in the Doctor's office by hour 4. Steroids also did not work. I am not off the chart any longer, but I do not hear.

I am looking at the BAHA implant also. Has anyone had anymore experience with it, or learned anymore about it. Thanks bunches.

[I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA]

Originally Posted by Heavenly Woman

Hi, I became a member on City-data just because of you...I love North Carolina. Actually I bumped into REDHAT's thread first re:BAHA implant. Then I found your's and you said "God is Good ALL the time" and I wanted to shout out "ALL the time, GOD is GOOD!"

So, re: sudden hearing loss. I'm also a victim of sudden hearing loss. Within a 2 -3 hour I was profoundly deaf in my Left ear. They think a virus hit the nerve. I was in the Doctor's office by hour 4. Steroids also did not work. I am not off the chart any longer, but I do not hear.

I am looking at the BAHA implant also. Has anyone had anymore experience with it, or learned anymore about it. Thanks bunches.

Welcome to City Data! I do love God and I do love North Carolina!

[gemkeeper]

Heavenly Woman, I love I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA and God, too!!

AND, I also, have sudden hearing loss. Sensorineural hearing loss accounts for the majority of hearing loss among adults - some estimate up to 80%.

I woke up one morning in January 3 years ago and thought that I had suffered another stroke because I did not hear my alarm clock. I awoke laying on my right side, rolled over and realized that the phone was ringing. I did not hear it - or the alarm while I was laying on my "good" ear.

I called my doctor immediately who sent me to the ER for a CAT scan. No signs of a blood clot in the brain.

I went to the ENT doc that afternoon, who thought that I did have a small clot in the auditory artery during the night long enough to cause the sudden deafness as a result of cutting off oxygen to the auditory nerve.

I have Lupus and was told to also see my rheumatologist. She felt that it was the Lupus causing my immune system to attack my auditory nerve as if it were a foreign body. (This is what causes the health issues with Lupus - the body self-destructing.)

So, several "I thinks" from the doctors, but like most cases of sensorineural hearing loss, the exact cause is not often found.

I would really love to have the BAHA implant, but cannot have elective surgery because of a blood-clotting disorder. Therefore, I am not a candidate, but have gotten quite good at watching people when they talk and not being afraid to ask someone to repeat what they have said.

The most annoying feature of losing hearing in one ear is that it is very difficult to determine where sounds come from. We learn to talk and listen in stereo, but once one receptor is gone it is difficult to locate the source of sound. The microwave timer goes off and invariably I turn my head to the other side of the kitchen where the oven timer is located!

And, if there are several sounds occurring at once, i.e. people talking, TV playing, water running, I cannot distinguish any of the sounds - just a cacophony.

Hearing Aids [NIDCD Health Information] provides information on the BAHA hearing implant as well as other hearing aid options.

Listen carefully. There are some wonderful things yet to be heard in this wonderful world. Best of everything to all of you.

[I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA]

Originally Posted by gemkeeper

Heavenly Woman, I love I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA and God, too!!

AND, I also, have sudden hearing loss. Sensorineural hearing loss accounts for the majority of hearing loss among adults - some estimate up to 80%.

I woke up one morning in January 3 years ago and thought that I had suffered another stroke because I did not hear my alarm clock. I awoke laying on my right side, rolled over and realized that the phone was ringing. I did not hear it - or the alarm while I was laying on my "good" ear.

I called my doctor immediately who sent me to the ER for a CAT scan. No signs of a blood clot in the brain.

I went to the ENT doc that afternoon, who thought that I did have a small clot in the auditory artery during the night long enough to cause the sudden deafness as a result of cutting off oxygen to the auditory nerve.

I have Lupus and was told to also see my rheumatologist. She felt that it was the Lupus causing my immune system to attack my auditory nerve as if it were a foreign body. (This is what causes the health issues with Lupus - the body self-destructing.)

So, several "I thinks" from the doctors, but like most cases of sensorineural hearing loss, the exact cause is not often found.

I would really love to have the BAHA implant, but cannot have elective surgery because of a blood-clotting disorder. Therefore, I am not a candidate, but have gotten quite good at watching people when they talk and not being afraid to ask someone to repeat what they have said.

The most annoying feature of losing hearing in one ear is that it is very difficult to determine where sounds come from. We learn to talk and listen in stereo, but once one receptor is gone it is difficult to locate the source of sound. The microwave timer goes off and invariably I turn my head to the other side of the kitchen where the oven timer is located!

And, if there are several sounds occurring at once, i.e. people talking, TV playing, water running, I cannot distinguish any of the sounds - just a cacophony.

Hearing Aids [NIDCD Health Information] provides information on the BAHA hearing implant as well as other hearing aid options.

Listen carefully. There are some wonderful things yet to be heard in this wonderful world. Best of everything to all of you.

Last year I started taking Lipo-Flavonoid, you can get it at the drug store and Walmart, it's made by a doctor for people with this. It helped a lot a first, but noe it only helps now and then. This is something that needs more research.

[Suzanne45]

Originally Posted by gemkeeper

Heavenly Woman, I love I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA and God, too!!


Hearing Aids [NIDCD Health Information] provides information on the BAHA hearing implant as well as other hearing aid options.

Listen carefully. There are some wonderful things yet to be heard in this wonderful world. Best of everything to all of you.

GEM, please excuse my editing your quote. Just wanted to say thanks for a great site with lots of good information.