Suddenly a partial hearing loss... maybe

Arghh. 50+ issues... Since yesterday morning after wakeup I can hear less on my left ear and it's likely not ear wax related. Happened twice to me that there was an overnight tinnitus which just disappeared.

Now bass is mostly gone on the left, also high freq., listening to music is uncomfortable, imagine listening to wrong phased speaker setup, it feels a bit like that.

No Doc. appointment today, will have to wait until tuesday, 4 more days.

Those things suck, I don't need that. 

Sorry for your hearing loss, thoughts & prayers that it's just temporary m8.

Getting old sucks lol, a couple of weeks a blood-in-me-stool mini-crisis (even though I was less than a year removed from a colonoscopy that came back fine).  Finally went in to the Dr and turns out it was just a hemorrhoid bludclaat; stuck his finger up there, removed it and sent me on my way 

it's super annoying isn't it? the out of phase feeling thing... i have meniere's and that kind of thing happens to be temporarily all the time along with other fun symptoms.. 

but weird hearing shit like that can be all kinds of stuff from eustachian tube, sinus, congestion, swollen things, infection, too much salt or caffeine.. anyway... i hope it goes away magically and clears up.  i suspect you'll see some specialists and get a hearing test if it doesn't go away on its own. i'd ask for all that if this problem persists. 

Hope you get better. I had tinnitus once and it freaked me out. Pulp Fiction by Alex Reece at a very loud volume on real shitty headphones did the damage. Thankfully after a couple of days it went away. I do genuinely feel sorry for people with stuff like that.

Recommend you avoid headphones and earbuds til you see the doc, good luck. Tinnitus sucks.

Tinnitus sucks, I've had it since i was very little maybe even since birth. My hearing is fine but I have never heard true silence in my life,  I don't listen to music with headphones and earbuds and I rarely go to concerts (I always ALWAYS wear very expensive earplugs). Despite that I've always had it. Sucks to hear about this. Hearing loss sucks! Hopefully it's temporary mate and otherwise, hearing aids arent too bad..

Had this same thing happen in one ear about a year ago; eventually got most of my hearing back in that ear after a few weeks but definitely not 100%.  About 9 months later, the same thing happened in the other ear.

I estimate that I've lost about 20 - 30% of hearing in both ears, and now there is persistent tinnitus in both ears.  Something I'll have to live with.

My older brother had this happen about 5 years or so ago, but he had it much worse.  His issues came with nausea and bouts of vertigo, and he still suffers from vertigo under certain situations.  Specialists initially thought it was Meniere's but most recent specialist said it is more likely one of two other things, one of them was some bones in his head growing or migrating and pushing on the ear area; I can't remember the other potential cause but I do remember that there are no cures / treatments for either one.

All you young people on here, enjoy it while you can.  Youth is wasted on the young...

A friend of mine lost 50db in one ear and 10db from the other in after he got covid in March and is now functionally deaf. It seemed to just be persistent congestion, but when he got his hearing aid he suffered indescribable pain in his bad ear and had to stop using it. Currently awaiting an audiology appointment. 

I've abused my ears so much over the past 35 years. I used to be a drummer in heavy metal bands and didn't wear ear protection until almost my 20s. So many concerts and raves to boot. I try to protect my ears now, employing very basic measures, etc. Luckily, the ears are still working pretty well. I have some mild tinnitus that I really only notice when its really quiet. Every now and then (like once every couple moths or so), I'll get a random tone in my ear that isn't that unpleasant but it is almost like a dj turns down the ambient noise volume in my head and fades in the tone (not always the same pitch) for about 30 seconds or so, then fades all levels back to normal. I'm hoping it doesn't just stick on the tone/low-ambient-volume setting one of these days 

* Typing while listening to Jean Sibelius quietly on earbuds. I still use earbuds at low volumes only because they do a good job cancelling ambient noise and they're cheap.

Wow, lots of reports here, great. Old farts who witnessed the rise of eg WARP/Ae are now 50+ I must say I was always very reasonable with my ears, never liked and rarely used headphones. Loud listening in living room isn't super loud; I only listen loud in car, but also not exaggerated. I was quite fine with my hearing, can still hear higher freqs (idk, 15khz?) which others aren't able to hear. My wife, it all ends<10k, she can't hear mice in the garden...

I've got Ménière's disease - or maybe I should say had, it has run its course, and I've lost all hearing in my left ear, replaced by constant noise and tinnitus. Having only one working ear is orders of magnitude better than the recurring, debilitating vertigo attacks. I haven't had stereo hearing for years; I could get a hearing aid and get some rudimentary hearing back, but the pleasure of full stereo hearing is irrevocably lost to me.

On the lighter side, these guys were like the spinal tap of d'n'b back in the day (video cued to where they talk about using headphones in producing)

I think I mentioned this is an old thread where someone else had a sudden loss of hearing. It COULD be snot that is stuck in your middle ear. Right on the other side of your eardrum.
I woke up one morning a bunch of years ago and couldn't hear a thing on my right ear. Or it was super muffled and I was sure my ear was done for. So I went to see my doctor and he looked at it and said everything looked fine. After some questioning where I told him I had just had a crazy cold and that my allergies were going nuts as well he told me about snot getting lodged in the middle ear.

So his advice - which fucking worked - was to take a big sip of water. Keep it in your mouth, hold your nose, and the swallow. This causes a vacuum, so when you swallow the water (which can be pretty hard since you're holding your nose) you're able to pull the snot out of your middle ear and down through your throat. You have to repeat this quite often over the next couple of days and don't give up it you don't feel an effect within the first day.

Given everyone and their uncle have had a sick ass cold lately this COULD be the cause of your hearing loss.

Been there, take care of yourself

My overnight tinnitusses were annoying but not loud. One was a beep. The other one I did not detect as one. Sounded like quietly flowing water, totally realistic. I wanted to find the direction/source and then noticed, there was no direction, it was in my head 

I know I can get used to a lot. But it's not fun if you're a music enthusiast. I'm wondering how/if people with more severe damage get used to it, or maybe even manage to forget about it (temporarily). 

  On 11/15/2024 at 8:49 PM, Squee said:

So his advice - which fucking worked - was to take a big sip of water. Keep it in your mouth, hold your nose, and the swallow. This causes a vacuum, so when you swallow the water (which can be pretty hard since you're holding your nose) you're able to pull the snot out of your middle ear and down through your throat. You have to repeat this quite often over the next couple of days and don't give up it you don't feel an effect within the first day.

nice trick an das a bonus ya get some snot meals throughout the day. 

  On 11/15/2024 at 10:48 PM, WurstPLUS said:

Sounded like quietly flowing water, totally realistic.

The snot in my middle ear sounded like crackling flowing water.

Good luck, hope it passes!

When I had chemo about 10 years ago, one of the possible side effects of the cocktail they gave me was permanent hearing damage/loss, and I was terrified of this. During the treatment my hearing was definitely a little fucked up - several times a day I would get a loud ringing in one ear that passed across into the other ear, then faded out, leaving my hearing a little muffled for a minute or two. Luckily I didn't end up with any noticeable permanent damage, but that temporary tinnitus thing has kept happening since, just less and less often... I still get it now but extremely rarely, probably happens once or twice a year.

  On 11/15/2024 at 7:32 PM, dcom said:

I've got Ménière's disease - or maybe I should say had, it has run its course, and I've lost all hearing in my left ear, replaced by constant noise and tinnitus. Having only one working ear is orders of magnitude better than the recurring, debilitating vertigo attacks. I haven't had stereo hearing for years; I could get a hearing aid and get some rudimentary hearing back, but the pleasure of full stereo hearing is irrevocably lost to me.

i spoke to a neurosurgeon years ago about the only surgical option they had at that time.. he explained how they cut into the back of the ear in this once spot where all the relevant nerves are and under the highest possible magnification they flick through the nerve endings and deaden one or two specific nerves.  he said usually this causes vertigo and dizziness. the patient is admitted after surgery and the vertigo lasts a couple days. he said there's no guarantees and all the nerve endings pretty much look the same and are so small that it's easy to mess up and hit the wrong one or too many. even when things go correctly the person can have hearing damage or hearing loss. he said, imagine a hair... and you zoom in on the end of that hair and it's crowded with more tiny hairs. those are the nerve endings. he said the goal of the process is to basically kill the nerves. a blunt instrument. 

i said, uh, no thanks. he said he's done the surgery a few times with good results but only recommends it when the person has extreme vertigo that never lets up and they've run out of options. this was around 2009 or 2010. i haven't heard of better options. thankfully my case is not as severe as many others and my hearing is fine other than tinnitus that comes and goes and other weird shit and brain fog and some dizziness and nystagmus. it's all weird shit. 

so, your running its course and going away seems about the best case scenario these days.  i have a friend who hadn't heard in stereo most of his life. had one good ear. eventually he bought some really fancy hi tech hearing aids and has them pretty dialed in so he's pretty happy w/them but still has better hearing in one side than the other and i still talk to him when i'm on that side or he tilts his head to hear. i guess hearing aids have been much improved in recent years. but even before he got them he was still DJing and making tunes that sounded good and were mixed well etc. 

fckn hell. take care people. getting old or sick or whatever is a fucking shit show. but is what it is. 

hope it doesn’t get to the point where you have to transition to WurstSIGN

  On 11/15/2024 at 7:32 PM, dcom said:

I've got Ménière's disease - or maybe I should say had, it has run its course, and I've lost all hearing in my left ear, replaced by constant noise and tinnitus. Having only one working ear is orders of magnitude better than the recurring, debilitating vertigo attacks. I haven't had stereo hearing for years; I could get a hearing aid and get some rudimentary hearing back, but the pleasure of full stereo hearing is irrevocably lost to me.

Got it too. I had my first series of attacks of vertigo around 2005. I was 23 then. Had about seven attacks back then, pretty severe. And it left me with some hearing loss, but not very noticeable. And no tinnitus.

Then about three years ago (at 39) I suddenly had a f*cker of an attack again which instantly worsened the hearing loss and caused tinnitus. It got worse with each attack that came after. It's pretty much over now, but the hearing loss in my right ear is pretty bad. My left is still fully functional. The tinnitus doesn't bother me as much as I had feared it would, as it's probably rather mild. The biggest issue for me is not being able to hear people in a noisy environment. Another annoyance is not being able to determine the direction a sound is coming from.

Typically, the disease causes two periods of attacks and should remain stable after that. Typically...

Yesterday I was a bit in doubt, today I can say, hearing is back. If there's loss it's barely noticeable (then I just don't want to know). I'm warned, I think it can happen any time again.

Have no dr. appointment. I guess the recommendations will be to protect hearing, no high blood pressure, no stress, sports, all those "reasonable life" things. I do all that, except stress, can barely control. [Job / always ill GenZ pussies - rant snipped]

An actual image that I saw on amazon today

meniere's department too well represented here. wtf is going on? do dope beats and lush pads cause meniere's? 

Convinced mine was a side effect from getting Covid back around Christmas 2019 - the timing was just that too coincidental