Any Upcoming Treatments for Mid-Range Hearing Loss?

[meemil]

Hi,

I've been been diagnosed with mid-frequency hearing loss. I have otherwise normal audiogram and can hear all the way till 18 kHz, but 1 kHz and 2 kHz are symmetrically down about 20 dB making a notch in both ears. It's speculated that it is genetic, but I don't know of any relatives with hearing loss.

As far as I know, FX-322 only helps with high frequencies and don't know if there's any other real upcoming treatments for inner ear hearing loss.

Any ideas on this?

Thanks!

 

[Juan]

I've been been diagnosed with mid-frequency hearing loss. I have otherwise normal audiogram and can hear all the way till 18 kHz, but 1 kHz and 2 kHz are symmetrically down about 20 dB making a notch in both ears. It's speculated that it is genetic, but I don't know of any relatives with hearing loss.

In most countries that is not even classified as hearing loss.

 

[Hammers]

Hi,

I've been been diagnosed with mid-frequency hearing loss. I have otherwise normal audiogram and can hear all the way till 18 kHz, but 1 kHz and 2 kHz are symmetrically down about 20 dB making a notch in both ears. It's speculated that it is genetic, but I don't know of any relatives with hearing loss.

As far as I know, FX-322 only helps with high frequencies and don't know if there's any other real upcoming treatments for inner ear hearing loss.

Any ideas on this?

Thanks!

Assuming FX-322 actually regenerates hearing effectively, it would work for all frequencies. The problem with regenerating lower frequencies is getting medicine further into the cochlea, not the medicine itself. Otomagnetics claims they have a delivery method that would get medicine all the way into the cochlea. So assuming FX-322 works, you'd want to be watching for delivery methods rather than new regenerative medicines.

 

[meemil]

In most countries that is not even classified as hearing loss.

The hearing loss is not that bad yet, but is likely progressive and already causing a quite distressing multi tonal tinnitus on that frequency range.

 

[meemil]

Assuming FX-322 actually regenerates hearing effectively, it would work for all frequencies. The problem with regenerating lower frequencies is getting medicine further into the cochlea, not the medicine itself. Otomagnetics claims they have a delivery method that would get medicine all the way into the cochlea. So assuming FX-322 works, you'd want to be watching for delivery methods rather than new regenerative medicines.

Alright, thanks for clarifying! Sounds interesting. Haven't heard about Otomagnetics yet.

 

[Juan]

The hearing loss is not that bad yet, but is likely progressive and already causing a quite distressing multi tonal tinnitus on that frequency range.

What I mean is that even if you go to doctors they wont be able to fix it and dismiss it as mild hearing loss or no hearing loss.

In the industrialised and urban world ENTs are now considering normal hearing up to 20 dbs in all frequencies. Probably 300 years ago this was considered as being half deaf, but the world has changed in this aspect for worse.