Waking up deaf!

biko · 17-02-2007 03:14AM

|.Murderer.| wrote:

I soon realised that I had absolutely no hearing from my right ear and less than normal hearing in my left ear. As you can imagine I found it very strange and difficult to function properly and then about two hours later my left ear started acting up and suddenly I couldn't hear anything at all!

Did you try rebooting?

InFront · 17-02-2007 03:21AM

Cremo wrote:

i have to say that i'd rather go blind - touch wood it doens't happen - than go deaf.

I can never decide which is better (worse, really). I believe there was a thread about it on boards some time ago.
If absolutely pressed, I'd say I'd prefer to keep my vision and go deaf. At least you can still drive, travel alone, read, see your family/ surroundings etc. I'm probably a bit biased because I don't like music very much as well. But still, tough call.

brianthebard · 17-02-2007 03:36AM

InFront wrote:

I can never decide which is better (worse, really). I believe there was a thread about it on boards some time ago.
If absolutely pressed, I'd say I'd prefer to keep my vision and go deaf. At least you can still drive, travel alone, read, see your family/ surroundings etc. I'm probably a bit biased because I don't like music very much as well. But still, tough call.

I imagine you could still listen to music with headphones? (depending on vibrations) i've heard of deaf people going to and enjoying concerts, by touching the amp or something. I dunno, I'm not deaf what do I care...

For some reason though my right ear is a lot weaker than my left. Never got it checked out, but I tend to turn my left ear towards a person if I can't hear them in conversation. Should probably at least have it checked out. Hmm....

InFront · 17-02-2007 03:46AM

Apparently it's far more common than gets diagnosed, because unlike bad eyesight, people sometimes don't know where to get hearing checked out, or just learn to live with it. Whereas bad sight it's an unavoidably visible disorder (or not...)

Rabies · 17-02-2007 05:03AM

monkeyfudge wrote:

And lay off the ear hole sex...

Easier said than done.

17-02-2007 05:41AM

hey I had a sore throat last year and I nearly completely deaf in one ear. Have had my nose stuffed up and dripping slightly down the back of my throat since (yes non stop for a year). I went to the eye and ear and went private - they say they can do nothing. My doctor told me to take sudafeds and put me on a nasal spray which helped a little - my hearing ever so slighly improved.
If I sleep on one side I wont hear the alarm in the morning!!

Anyone have similiar experience?? Any ideas? the doctors and hospitals are hopeless

Been thinking of going abroad - but I dunno if that will help so before I blow a load of money - any one have an idea??

Jello · 17-02-2007 10:56AM

|.Murderer.| wrote:

So it was like you were listening to that ridiculous "silent" ringtone for 2 weeks?

Yeah, exactly.

How's the hearing today?

AdMMM · 17-02-2007 01:02PM

My right ear is still blocked and all I can hear is a ringing from it. It's not annoying me much anymore, but I hope I don't get too used to it! I've started a routine of ear drops and cotton wool since last night so hopefully that will soften it up enough; otherwise it's the nurse and her high pressure water cleaning for me!

monkeyfudge · 17-02-2007 01:26PM

Just steer clear of cotton buds. Very easy to do permanent damage to your ear with those things.

Overheal · 17-02-2007 03:05PM

Im rather annoyed; necause such a thing has happened to me twice. I went to the doctor about it the last time and rather than reccomend syringing (as my siblings had gotten back in the states) he put me on some stupid oil medication: I had to drop this foul **** into my ear every 12 hours and attempt to stick it in place with cotton: only to have it ooze out and get all over my clothes. not to mention it was oil and hard as hell to clean.
And in the end it did NOTHING. Eventually after 6 weeks my body got pissed off and did something about it itself. The oil was supposed to work in 2.

According to the doctor my sibs went to some families are genetically 'flawed' with narrower ear canals and this is the reason for regular syringing.

Not that I would trust an Irish doc with syringing my ear anyway.....overcrowd this, malpractice that....

AdMMM · 17-02-2007 03:18PM

Aye, I read up on it and apparently it's now recommended to prescribe the oil medication (or even just Olive Oil) instead of just syringing it at the drop of a hat!

spurious · 17-02-2007 03:24PM

I remember once reading the phrase "Blindness cuts you off from things, but deafness cuts you off from people".

If you were to lose your hearing, to never again fully be able to express yourself to those you love, or to 'hear' what they are saying, must be terrible. Plus there's the music thing too.

I suppose it's different if you've never heard at all. Imagine how difficult it is to learn how to read English if you've never heard the difference between the sounds. When you think about it, what some deaf from birth people do is amazing.

Waking up deaf!

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