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Have A Problem In Hearing Along With Pain

About 6 weeks ago I was pulling weeds along a fence line and I got a good dose of rag weed in my sinuses. The next day I woke up with both ears full of fluid. I went to the emergency at the hospital and they scanned my head and said Vertigo with fluid in both ears and gave me some prescriptions for dizziness, allergy, and vomiting. My left ear is completely dead except for a constant ringing. The right has come back a little, enough to hear some but it's ringing also. To make matters worse, I use my ears for piano tuning to be able to tune a piano ( by ear ). I have tried to open my left eustation tube in many ways such as hot showers and neti-pot bottle that fills the sinus with warm saline to wash out the sinuses. However the left ear is still not responding. I was wondering about an ear popper procedure performed by an ear, nose, throat physician. I have to have my hearing to be a musician also. I have a Share Of Care of 400 with Medicaid. I am also on disability for nerve damage from diabetes type 2 and I take Gabapentin.
Thu, 30 Jan 2014
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Hi, the procedure for fluid in ear is myringotomy with grommet insertion in which an incision is made in the ear drum and fluid is sucked out and a ventilation tube is placed. Otherwise use of mucolytics is helpful along with nasal decongestants. An audiometry is helpful in telling the prognosis as a conductive loss will recover with the procedure but a sensorineural loss is not going to recover with myringotomy. Regards
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Have A Problem In Hearing Along With Pain

Hi, the procedure for fluid in ear is myringotomy with grommet insertion in which an incision is made in the ear drum and fluid is sucked out and a ventilation tube is placed. Otherwise use of mucolytics is helpful along with nasal decongestants. An audiometry is helpful in telling the prognosis as a conductive loss will recover with the procedure but a sensorineural loss is not going to recover with myringotomy. Regards