Hi can anyone help? I hear sounds that most people dont and I can not stand the pitch at which my son is talking nor my husband. Am I weird? If anyone has an answer please respond. I have never had any concussion or head injury. thank you

Hello,

Just wondering if this condition is hereditary? I am a 49 year old female that was diagnosed with otosclerosis in my early 20's. I have had surgery on both ears. I am now deaf in one ear and wear a hearing aid in the other.
My son age 26 is hard of hearing, and his 7 yr old daughter is having trouble with her ears now too.

I would appreciate any information on this.

Thank you,

Nona Honea

Hi from Israel

Thank you for offering this service.

I'm 44 yrs old. My problem is that when I hear a loud sound of any kind – for example, my 16 yr old scream at me, a bus whizz by me, a man in a store raising his voice – my left ear begins to vibrate and makes a noise that sounds like the static you hear between radio stations. I find this vibration painful and hard on my nerves. I had a proffessional hearing test done with an audiometer and the test came out normal. However, when the tester tried to make me hear high frequencies in my left ear, I stopped her because I found the experience to be too painful.

I should add that I also suffer from dizziness when going on bus trips, and from feeling out of balance when climbing even a low ladder. I'm sure this is BPPV. I've learned to live with it. What I find hard to live with is the pain that I have in my left ear when I hear loud sounds. The BPPV I can tolerate.

I have no other symptoms, and my hearing is fine.

There's a professor in Israel who treats such things, but he costs a small fortune and I can't afford him. If you have any idea what I suffer from, please tell me. I'm hoping that I'll be able to find information on the internet about whatever it is. If I can at least try a few things to see what helps me, I can later go to the professor and tell him what I found to be helpful. That way, I'll probably get a much faster diagnosis from him (which will also involve fewer appointments with him and thus be much cheaper).

Thank you very much

-Shlomo

My daughter just turned 7 and beginning at her 6 year annual appointment she has failed numerous hearing screenings at 1000 Hz in both ears. Most recently she also failed 500Hz in one ear as well. For the past year we screened her every few months and after about 6 months I took her for a full audio exam which she was within normal limits but not exceptional hearing. Over the past few months she has begun "correcting" us when she thinks we have mispronounced words but we are actually saying the words correctly and I think she is missing sounds especially the middles of words and the softer sounds. Her Ped thinks she may have guessed her way through the spoken part because they used kid words and she is a highly intelligent and intuitive child and he just does not see such consistent failure of hearing screenings bilaterally among kids with "normal" hearing. The only health issues she has had was severe maternal undiagnosed gestational diabetes resulting in her birthweight being 11 lbs at 38 weeks gestation. She also had severe pneumonia at age 5 and she took much higher than normal dose of zithromax for 10 days. She failed her infant hearing screening but passed a rescreeening the next day. If we can't quantify a loss does it not exist? Beyond just doing a full retest is there a better way to figure out this kind of odd middle range loss? Neither the Dr nor I can figure out the right course of action if she's not failing the full test but functionally doesn't seem to be hearing properly.

Thanks!!

Ann

AT THE AGE OF 5 YEARS I HAD A MASTOIDECTOMY DUE TO AN INFECTION.
AT ABOUT 1983/4 I HAD ANOTHER OP TO CLEAR UP INFECTION AFTER PARTNER PUSHED ME DOWN STAIRS. THIS YEAR HAVE HAD NUMEROUS INFECTIONS AFTER HAVING MY LEFT EAR
"HOOVERED" I THOUGHT THIS TO BE NORMAL PROCEDURE DUE TO NEW TECHNOLOGY ALLOW
ED THIS TO BE DONE. VISIT WAS BECAUSE OF EAR ACHES I CAN TAKE TAKE THE PAIN
HOWEVER GP THOUGHT THIS TO BE ONE INFECTION TOO MANY AND REFERED ME TO ENT DEPT
SINCE HAVING MY LEFT EAR HOOVERED I HAVE GROWN A VERY NASTY STREP A INFECTION
ALSO HAVE HAD SEVERAL NASTY PUS INFECTIONS HAD 2 MORE HOOVERING SESSIONS LAST ONE BLOOD APPEARED NO PAIN WITH STREP BUT PAIN WITH OTHERS. ANTIBIOTICS DO NOT
WORK ANY MORE NOW HAVE A STEROID CREAM INJECTED IN TO EAR. NO PAINS OR INFECTIONS NOW. NEXT STEP I HAVE JUST HAD PRE OP APPOINTMENT TODAY FOR A
TYMPANOPLASTY OP AM 43 YEARS OLD AND SCARED OUT OF MY WITS. SACRED OF PAIN ??
MY FAMILY HAVE SUFFERED SEVERAL OPS OVER THE YEARS EARS,BABIES,ETC. SO I KNOW WHAT IS INVOLVED WITH THIS OP BUT HELL I'M STILL SCARED .TECHNOLOGY TODAY IS SUCH THAT I MAY GET LESS/MORE/NO HEARING EVEN HAVE A FACIAL TICK SO WHAT.WHO CARES NONE EOF THAT BOTHERS ME. CAN ANYONE OFFER ME SOME CONSOLATION???