Anonymous wrote:I am guessing the poster who is minimizing sudden sensorineural hearing loss is not an otolaryngologist because otherwise they would know it occurs with some increased frequency/incidence in recent years.

I am guessing they are medical adjacent- maybe a PA or NP.

If they are a physician- well what do you know, so am I (the original poster to alert of the possibility of sudden sensorineural hearing loss).

It’s along the lines of informed consent- even if the chances are extremely low (ie death during cholecystectomy) if they are severe (such as life altering functional loss- such as sense of hearing) it’s worthy of notification.

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Anonymous wrote:The bulb syringes that come in the kits are too small.

My recommendation would be to skip the drop and just get the biggest bulb syringe you can find. They don't use drops at medical offices-- they just flush the ears out.

With water? Or hydrogen peroxide?

Warm water! No, don't flush your ears with hydrogen peroxide or any other chemical. Plain, warm tap water.

Hydrogen peroxide losens the wax. Hydrogen Peroxide isn't DEET, if you are calling Hydrogen Peroxide a chemical, then call water a chemical as well.

Shooting hydrogen peroxide into your ear is a bad idea, and completely unnecessary. Sure, drops would be fine, but a doctor's office isn't going to bother. Why should you?

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Anonymous wrote:Sudden sensorineural hearing loss can present as feeling one ear is clogged.

Maybe see an ENT and get tested, if it is the etiology timely steroid dose is important for possibly regaining function.

This is an incredible overreaction until the far, far, far more common causes are explored and ruled out.

It’s a time sensitive diagnosis. And if the manual extraction of cerumen doesn’t work- this should be placed on the OPs radar. A viral/post viral etiology has been postulated, and ‘tis the season of viruses.

OK, but that's like telling someone with a headache that they should be getting ready to call a neurologist to look for cancer. It's possible, but unlikely enough to be absurd.

There's a saying in medicine-- when you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras. What you're describing isn't even a zebra.

Wish I had seen a post like this when I wondered why I felt like I was under water/ear clogged. Kept assuming it would unclog itself, all that. Permanently deaf in that ear. Maybe getting into the ENT even a few days earlier would have helped.

Maybe. But do you go to a neurologist for every headache?

No wonder health care spending is ridiculous in the US. People are crazy when it comes to assessing risk.

No I don't, but thanks for minimizing the actual outcome that I experienced, which is exactly what that poster simply cautioned against. Knowledge is power, especially when doctors themselves minimize people's experiences enough.

Maybe don't argue with every post you see just to feel superior. I wouldn't wish this outcome on anyone.

Anecdotal experience isn't as useful to others as you seem to think it is. In fact, it can be dangerous to lead someone down the path of thinking of low-probability events. I suspect your intentions here are pure, but it doesn't mean your effect is positive.

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Anonymous wrote:Sudden sensorineural hearing loss can present as feeling one ear is clogged.

Maybe see an ENT and get tested, if it is the etiology timely steroid dose is important for possibly regaining function.

This is an incredible overreaction until the far, far, far more common causes are explored and ruled out.

It’s a time sensitive diagnosis. And if the manual extraction of cerumen doesn’t work- this should be placed on the OPs radar. A viral/post viral etiology has been postulated, and ‘tis the season of viruses.

OK, but that's like telling someone with a headache that they should be getting ready to call a neurologist to look for cancer. It's possible, but unlikely enough to be absurd.

There's a saying in medicine-- when you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras. What you're describing isn't even a zebra.

Wish I had seen a post like this when I wondered why I felt like I was under water/ear clogged. Kept assuming it would unclog itself, all that. Permanently deaf in that ear. Maybe getting into the ENT even a few days earlier would have helped.

Maybe. But do you go to a neurologist for every headache?

No wonder health care spending is ridiculous in the US. People are crazy when it comes to assessing risk.

No I don't, but thanks for minimizing the actual outcome that I experienced, which is exactly what that poster simply cautioned against. Knowledge is power, especially when doctors themselves minimize people's experiences enough.

Maybe don't argue with every post you see just to feel superior. I wouldn't wish this outcome on anyone.

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Anonymous wrote:Sudden sensorineural hearing loss can present as feeling one ear is clogged.

Maybe see an ENT and get tested, if it is the etiology timely steroid dose is important for possibly regaining function.

This is an incredible overreaction until the far, far, far more common causes are explored and ruled out.

It’s a time sensitive diagnosis. And if the manual extraction of cerumen doesn’t work- this should be placed on the OPs radar. A viral/post viral etiology has been postulated, and ‘tis the season of viruses.

OK, but that's like telling someone with a headache that they should be getting ready to call a neurologist to look for cancer. It's possible, but unlikely enough to be absurd.

There's a saying in medicine-- when you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras. What you're describing isn't even a zebra.

Wish I had seen a post like this when I wondered why I felt like I was under water/ear clogged. Kept assuming it would unclog itself, all that. Permanently deaf in that ear. Maybe getting into the ENT even a few days earlier would have helped.

Maybe. But do you go to a neurologist for every headache?

No wonder health care spending is ridiculous in the US. People are crazy when it comes to assessing risk.

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Anonymous wrote:COVID onset can present this way.

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to chime in with this one. Bozo.

Why are you thinking about loud? What is the point of name calling?

Oh, and I will say it again for your benefit, a clogged ears were my first symptoms of COVID.

Because not everything is covid that's why. It doesn't matter anymore what the symptom is, it is automatically called out as covid. PMS? No, Covid. Irregular heartbeat, could it be anxiety? No, Covid. Knee pain? oh that's covid too doncha know!

OP's issue isn't covid! It's sinuses.

OP--you may have COVID

Of course not eveything is COVID but some things are COVID or may be COVID.
I will continue to talk about COVID as appropriate, even though the mere mention of it makes you very uncomfortable for some reason.

DP. If everything is a symptom of covid, then nothing is a symptom of covid. I don't understand your goals in bringing up covid in situations where it is highly unlikely to be relevant, but whatever they are, you're not achieving them.

Too bad you don't understand.
Yes, I have a a world-impacting agenda for letting the OP her illness may be COVID. You have figured out the conspiracy. You got me. I have been caught.

Except you didn't do that, and it's kind of sad you don't realize that. Symptoms lose meaning when everything is a low-probability symptom. Do you really not understand that?

COVID exists. It is not fiction. It has not gone away.

That's quite the non sequitur. Covid isn't going away period. Given your apparent anxiety level over it, you're going to have a rough time if everything is a covid symptom to you.

The OP may or may not have COVID.

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Anonymous wrote:COVID onset can present this way.

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to chime in with this one. Bozo.

Why are you thinking about loud? What is the point of name calling?

Oh, and I will say it again for your benefit, a clogged ears were my first symptoms of COVID.

Because not everything is covid that's why. It doesn't matter anymore what the symptom is, it is automatically called out as covid. PMS? No, Covid. Irregular heartbeat, could it be anxiety? No, Covid. Knee pain? oh that's covid too doncha know!

OP's issue isn't covid! It's sinuses.

OP--you may have COVID

Of course not eveything is COVID but some things are COVID or may be COVID.
I will continue to talk about COVID as appropriate, even though the mere mention of it makes you very uncomfortable for some reason.

DP. If everything is a symptom of covid, then nothing is a symptom of covid. I don't understand your goals in bringing up covid in situations where it is highly unlikely to be relevant, but whatever they are, you're not achieving them.

Too bad you don't understand.
Yes, I have a a world-impacting agenda for letting the OP her illness may be COVID. You have figured out the conspiracy. You got me. I have been caught.

Except you didn't do that, and it's kind of sad you don't realize that. Symptoms lose meaning when everything is a low-probability symptom. Do you really not understand that?

COVID exists. It is not fiction. It has not gone away.

That's quite the non sequitur. Covid isn't going away period. Given your apparent anxiety level over it, you're going to have a rough time if everything is a covid symptom to you.

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Anonymous wrote:The bulb syringes that come in the kits are too small.

My recommendation would be to skip the drop and just get the biggest bulb syringe you can find. They don't use drops at medical offices-- they just flush the ears out.

With water? Or hydrogen peroxide?

Warm water! No, don't flush your ears with hydrogen peroxide or any other chemical. Plain, warm tap water.

Hydrogen peroxide losens the wax. Hydrogen Peroxide isn't DEET, if you are calling Hydrogen Peroxide a chemical, then call water a chemical as well.

Shooting hydrogen peroxide into your ear is a bad idea, and completely unnecessary. Sure, drops would be fine, but a doctor's office isn't going to bother. Why should you?

"Shooting" is a biased way of phrasing an innocous activity. The poster should "bother" because the peroxide will help them get the wax out of their ear.

Have you ever done this at a doctor's office? "Shooting" is absolutely descriptive phrasing. There's real pressure involved to push the wax out.

No need for hydrogen peroxide. Warm water works fine.

Hosing, squirting, etc. would be sufficiently descriptive. If you think shooting is descriptive, you have never been to a gun range.

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Anonymous wrote:COVID onset can present this way.

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to chime in with this one. Bozo.

Why are you thinking about loud? What is the point of name calling?

Oh, and I will say it again for your benefit, a clogged ears were my first symptoms of COVID.

Because not everything is covid that's why. It doesn't matter anymore what the symptom is, it is automatically called out as covid. PMS? No, Covid. Irregular heartbeat, could it be anxiety? No, Covid. Knee pain? oh that's covid too doncha know!

OP's issue isn't covid! It's sinuses.

OP--you may have COVID

Of course not eveything is COVID but some things are COVID or may be COVID.
I will continue to talk about COVID as appropriate, even though the mere mention of it makes you very uncomfortable for some reason.

DP. If everything is a symptom of covid, then nothing is a symptom of covid. I don't understand your goals in bringing up covid in situations where it is highly unlikely to be relevant, but whatever they are, you're not achieving them.

Too bad you don't understand.
Yes, I have a a world-impacting agenda for letting the OP her illness may be COVID. You have figured out the conspiracy. You got me. I have been caught.

Except you didn't do that, and it's kind of sad you don't realize that. Symptoms lose meaning when everything is a low-probability symptom. Do you really not understand that?

COVID exists. It is not fiction. It has not gone away.

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Anonymous wrote:Sudden sensorineural hearing loss can present as feeling one ear is clogged.

Maybe see an ENT and get tested, if it is the etiology timely steroid dose is important for possibly regaining function.

This is an incredible overreaction until the far, far, far more common causes are explored and ruled out.

It’s a time sensitive diagnosis. And if the manual extraction of cerumen doesn’t work- this should be placed on the OPs radar. A viral/post viral etiology has been postulated, and ‘tis the season of viruses.

OK, but that's like telling someone with a headache that they should be getting ready to call a neurologist to look for cancer. It's possible, but unlikely enough to be absurd.

There's a saying in medicine-- when you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras. What you're describing isn't even a zebra.

Wish I had seen a post like this when I wondered why I felt like I was under water/ear clogged. Kept assuming it would unclog itself, all that. Permanently deaf in that ear. Maybe getting into the ENT even a few days earlier would have helped.