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[Val.M]

Dede - I know this thread is a bit old from your point of view - but I also had the horrendous loss of hearing, but not quite to your extent....  It took me quite a long time to understand that it was related to my allergies.  Sprays didn't work but nose drops did.... eventually.....  God knows why it took my GP and ENT specialist (In local surgery though) so long to find out what was causing it..... And it was seriously bad by then.  (We're talking about 2 years here )

Prior to the nose drops I tried a device called OTOVENT - It's a balloon type device which you blow up with your nose and is great for "glue" ear etc.  I think I paid about £7 for this device from the Internet - if you google it, you'll find it......  When I mentioned it to my GP he actually took some notes on it because he'd not heard of it. 

My hearing was really bad - I couldn't hear much at all but at other times it was so overpowering - particularly when I was exposed to loud noises.  Not a good thing to put up with when working in a school  

I'm not 100% and that's a pain - I'm suffering at the moment because I've got a cold which immediately affects my hearing - but OMG - so much better than I have been in the past

Valxx

[CLKD]

We have a thread on itchy ears somewhere 

The builders are banging piles into the ground at the back of our house  it's scared the cat rigid 

[Eddie]

piles??

[CLKD]

Huge concrete and metal 'stakes' which go into the ground in order to make boundaries in which to pour more concrete on which 'footings' will be built

[Eddie]

 

[CLKD]

 

[CLKD]

Kids not getting their own way outside the house so are screaming, that'll be me soon then  ... blue sky, warm air, screaming kids playing in the street ......... 

[Dede]

Hi Val, ( and everyone else of course  )
 My sudden hearing loss was connected to my sinus's, I was given antibiotic and steroid nasal drops which helped but unfortunatly the damage affected my hearing permanently ( I've been hard of hearing since I was a little girl ) and I'm now profoundly deaf and taking ill health early retirement.
 I was starting to feel a bit more posiive about it all but my ear was congested again a few weeks ago and its knocked me right back again.
 I now know he difference between feeling sad and feeling depressed ( which is how I feel just now) and its not nice 

[Bette]

Dede - just want to send you a big 
Bette x

[Dede]

Thank you Bette its much appreciated x

[CLKD]

I hate that feeling of congestion.  It happened last week after the dental trip  and lasted a few days.

No wonder you are depressed, to be deprived of my hearing is one of my worst thoughts.  Never to hear bird song again.  Would rather not see! 

[Dede]

I miss hearing the cat purr.......
I havnt heard birds for a very long time, too long to remember really.

[CLKD]

   it's been constant ........ due to new builds behind our house 'they' are now digging up the pavement, backing large lorries with fill-in and tipping it, then back-filling with trucks which bleep when in reverse.  Constant drilling, backing up, tipping in, reversing bleeping ........ even with the windows shut it's constant 

[bev couzens]

Before the menopause i was never bothered by any noise...then it was so scary that just hearing the heat come at night..or the floor boards creeking  put be on edge.....BEV

[Lucky Stone]

Isn't it odd how night noises are always more scary? When I lived in London, I woke up a few nights running hearing what sounded like mice scuffling about in the bedroom. Made me all rigid. OH was away so to see if they actually were in there with me, so to speak, I scattered some flour on the carpet and then a small amount of breakfast cereal on top before I went to bed. I figured that if there were mice, they would eat the cereal and leave footprints. Well, nothing happened and I never did solve the mystery ... OH really laughed when he got back ... and he never did hear those scuffling noises ...