If you do have sudden sensorineural hearing loss, treatment with steroids within the first 2 weeks of the symptoms provides the best chance that some of the hearing may return.
Evidence now suggests that injection of medication into the middle ear, using a relatively painless and quick procedure in the clinic, is also effective in treating sudden sensorineural hearing loss without the side effects that can be seen when taking high-dose steroids by mouth. This study will compare high dose oral steroids with intratympanic, or middle-ear injections of a special formulation of steroid medication for the treatment of sudden sensorineural hearing loss. This Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss Multicenter Treatment Trial is the first prospective, randomized clinical trial to compare these two different treatment options.
If you have any questions about Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss and treatment, please feel free to call Dr. Even though it appears as though there is an ear infection present, it may only be an irritation instigated by the trigeminal nerve that is alerting your body that your TMJ joint is not in the right place.
The muscle known as the tensor tympani goes to your eardrum and can create noises by stretching your ear drum. Watch this slideshow tour through the ear, helping you understand the causes of ear infections and how they are diagnosed and treated.
View an illustration of ear anatomy and learn about the outer, middle and internal sections that make up the ear and their functions. Learn Eustachian tube problems like clearing the ears when flying, or suffering infection and incurring an ear infection. Watch this slideshow on Tinnitus (ringing in the ears) and learn causes, symptoms, relief remedies, treatments and prevention tips.
Read about swimmer's ear (external otitis or otitis externa), an infection of the skin covering the outer ear. A typical patient loses his or her hearing in one ear over a period of one to several days, associated with a feeling of fullness in the ear, and often tinnitus, or ringing of the involved ear. Occasionally, the patient may report an upper respiratory infection (cold symptoms) prior to the onset of the hearing loss. The symptoms of decreased hearing and fullness of the ear are often diagnosed as a middle ear infection (otitis media) and so the referral to an audiologist or otolaryngologist (ENT specialist) is made too late. The diagnosis can only be made by specialized hearing testing in a sound-proof chamber by an audiologist.
This nerve also sends messages about mouth movements and links two important ear muscles in your face. Pure-tone thresholds, speech discrimination scores, acoustic reflex testing, and distortion product otoacoustic emission testing, the parts of a complete audiometric evaluation, are performed to confirm the diagnosis of a sudden sensorineural hearing loss.
If you do get tinnitus you may also get other symptoms too, such as hearing loss and congestion and even ear infections.
This comprehensive testing by an audiologist will ensure that the loss is nerve-related, and not due to fluid, infection, or a perforation, or hole in the ear drum.
Tinnitus is a medical condition characterized by persistent ringing in one or both ears which can only be heard by the affected individual.
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