MemberHi all
Just developed this four weeks ago, no idea why. Just had dinner at a restaurant, was feed four or so tequilas by the owner - I almost never drink spirits. Few people at my house with some music playing that night, not too loud. Had quiet a late one after everyone went home however just chatting on the computer in the quiet.
I had been tapering off Flarex (fluorometholone - ototoxic) which I had been on for a year for keratitis but I was down to a drop a week, which I took the day before the onset. I was only doing 1 drop a week for about four months before the onset so I struggle to see how this could have pushed it over the edge.
Woke up to a 13 kHz or so tone central-right. First three weeks it was pretty loud. Lately in the mornings when I wake up it is about a 1/10 or 0.5/10 and replace by a fire alarm sound in my right ear which is maybe 3/10. As soon as I get up the fire alarm noise goes away for the entire rest of the day and the 13 kHz tone kicks in slowly, gets louder during the day to maybe a 6/10. Really annoying.
Went and saw two disinterested ENTs that pretty much made up their minds immediately that it was "hearing loss" and I need to habituate. The ENT tonight pretty much made up my audiogram and said it was high frequency hearing loss. I went home and tested my audiogram online and my hearing is pretty good- in the normal range for a 30 year old and I am 47. She gave me three musical pieces to listen to 2 hours a day until I habituate.
Unimpressed I think some sort of neuroinflammatory thing is going on. That is also what the University of Arizona research seems to indicate.
Seems to be aggravated if I get worked up or eat certain foods (yet to zero it down but I suspect is sugar). Hangovers aggravate it.
Using a neck brace twice I have got it down to about 0.5/10 after an hour in the evenings - almost inaudible. Need to keep trying this as I read about the paper with the lady who had it for 20 years before curing it over 4 weeks with a neck brace. Went to a chiro who said I had four pea sized knots in my jaw that he worked out.
Today was about a 2/10 all day but this evening it hit about at 6/10 after dinner - took some NAC and it seemed to quieten to about a 4/10. Seemed to give me a few palpitations.
Then I listened to this high frequency audio test and it went away almost completely for a period of time:
https://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_frequencycheckhigh.php
A -9 dbFS sweeping sine tone, from 22 kHz (supposedly inaudible) down to 8 kHz
Matt
Just developed this four weeks ago, no idea why. Just had dinner at a restaurant, was feed four or so tequilas by the owner - I almost never drink spirits. Few people at my house with some music playing that night, not too loud. Had quiet a late one after everyone went home however just chatting on the computer in the quiet.
I had been tapering off Flarex (fluorometholone - ototoxic) which I had been on for a year for keratitis but I was down to a drop a week, which I took the day before the onset. I was only doing 1 drop a week for about four months before the onset so I struggle to see how this could have pushed it over the edge.
Woke up to a 13 kHz or so tone central-right. First three weeks it was pretty loud. Lately in the mornings when I wake up it is about a 1/10 or 0.5/10 and replace by a fire alarm sound in my right ear which is maybe 3/10. As soon as I get up the fire alarm noise goes away for the entire rest of the day and the 13 kHz tone kicks in slowly, gets louder during the day to maybe a 6/10. Really annoying.
Went and saw two disinterested ENTs that pretty much made up their minds immediately that it was "hearing loss" and I need to habituate. The ENT tonight pretty much made up my audiogram and said it was high frequency hearing loss. I went home and tested my audiogram online and my hearing is pretty good- in the normal range for a 30 year old and I am 47. She gave me three musical pieces to listen to 2 hours a day until I habituate.
Unimpressed I think some sort of neuroinflammatory thing is going on. That is also what the University of Arizona research seems to indicate.
Seems to be aggravated if I get worked up or eat certain foods (yet to zero it down but I suspect is sugar). Hangovers aggravate it.
Using a neck brace twice I have got it down to about 0.5/10 after an hour in the evenings - almost inaudible. Need to keep trying this as I read about the paper with the lady who had it for 20 years before curing it over 4 weeks with a neck brace. Went to a chiro who said I had four pea sized knots in my jaw that he worked out.
Today was about a 2/10 all day but this evening it hit about at 6/10 after dinner - took some NAC and it seemed to quieten to about a 4/10. Seemed to give me a few palpitations.
Then I listened to this high frequency audio test and it went away almost completely for a period of time:
https://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_frequencycheckhigh.php
A -9 dbFS sweeping sine tone, from 22 kHz (supposedly inaudible) down to 8 kHz
Matt
