Recent content by Seymour

I haven’t seen an ENT yet. I’ll make an appointment. Audiologist too. I asked an MRI tech I know just out of curiosity and here is her answer: "They wouldn’t have missed it. They would have to be an idiot. It’s one of the main things the radiologists would be looking for. If they did miss...

So basically it makes it a bit less likely than if I had no brain MRI, but I should still make sure?

Yes absolutely. My thinking was more along the line that since I’ve had these symptoms for like 15 years, and a brain MRI a few months ago, that if I had an AN they would most likely have picked it up as the symptoms are old and not something that popped up after the MRI. you think that makes...

Hey Greg! Sorry to bother you again. Do you think my having a brain MRI a few months ago makes it even less likely that I have AN?

Hey Greg! Thanks for replying. I did have a brain MRI last summer. Wasn't specifically looking for AN but just any abnormality and it came up completely clean. I guess that would have detected an AN if it was the cause of my symptoms for the last 10+ years?

Hi Michael, my mom just told me she had stapedectomy in her 30’s. She thinks it’s otosclerosis and says our family on her side "Just have bad ears" and half her aunts and uncles have one-sided hearing loss and tinnitus. She says we’re wired that way. Stapedectomy seems related to conductive...

OK so I did some research and it seems that neuromas are diagnosed through brain MRI. Last summer I complained of dizziness and weird tingling so my doctor sent me for a brain MRI to look for anything suspicious although her main suspicion was hypochondria. I had read about MS so I was...

I had a brain MRI a few months ago, would that have picked up an AN?

Doesn’t seem that likely as I never had any discharge or feeling of fullness or pain and my infections occurred as a small child. I think my last one must have been 25 years ago.

Never heard of tinnitus spreading. For all I know I may have tinnitus in the other ear too but it might be drowned by a louder tinnitus on the other side. Also worth noting that I had chronic ear infections in that ear as a child. I admit your posts are making me anxious lol I had depression...

I had a brain MRI a few months ago, would that have picked up an AN?

Even after like 15 years?

I know my mom’s tinnitus goes up and down in phases. I will see an ENT. My best friend is actually a hearing therapist lol He told me neuroma would be very unlikely as it’s a rare cause.

What I don’t understand is I’ve had this condition for more than a decade and no doctor ever raised a red flag and I even posted here a few months ago listing my symptoms and no one said neuroma. And all of a sudden everyone tells me to get checked for neuroma lol

Yes exactly. What is conductive loss? Sorry I’m a newbie. Also in that ear I kinda hear a bit like through a tin can. I find it strange that my hearing improves drastically for a few seconds in that ear after Valsalva and then goes back to crap. It should mean I still have the hearing...