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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope my experience gives you some reassurance. I had mild tinnitus for a few months followed by sudden complete one-sided deafness. My MRI turned up no acoustic neuroma. It sucks to lose hearing but I was relieved to not need surgery. What I learned from my ENT, audiologist and the FB support groups I joined is most people do not have a tumor but they do have to investigate. Generally it remains unexplained and is chalked up to a virus or auto-immune issue. Like you, most people seem to get bad advice from their PCPs before finally making their way to an ENT. It is considered a medical emergency to lose hearing and quick intervention with oral steroids and injections can on occasion restore it. In my case, I was seen immediately but my hearing didn’t return. [/quote]

This is me to a T. Sudden waves of tinnitus, followed by a particularly scary incident of vertigo. A week later, over the course of two days, I lost all hearing in my left ear. I did get into an ENT within two days and started high dose steroids, then injected behind eardrum, but to no avail. They tested for all kinds of tumors, all clear. For me they also chalked it up to a virus. The tinnitus is VERY loud and really disruptive. I got a cochlear implant recently and it helps to wear that; tones down the tinnitus. [/quote]

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