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Dvorak - 21 Sep 2005 10:24 GMT

Hi. I'm 27 years old. I suffered 5 years ago an injure to the back of
my head. I fell down and I hit the sidewalk with the back of my head,
leading to lose my conscious. After I came back, I realized that I
can't hear at all with my right ear. Well, the doctors said that my
auditory nerve was damaged... so is nothing that I can do anymore.
Since then, I always "hear" an annoying "buzz". Is not so "loud" but
it's there. I still can hear perfectly with my left ear. But for
example, when I'm talking to someone and there is noise around (cars,
people talking..etc), I have to turn around and put that person to my
left side. Do you think that this is tinnintus? Also, can you please
tell me if I may have a slightly chance to recover the hearing on my
right ear? Thank you for reading

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fyfpoon@gmail.com - 21 Sep 2005 12:27 GMT

i am no doctor but knowing what doctors do in this puzzling field named
tinnitus, I would reserve my opinion to his verdict of your ill. i had
a bang on my left side too and a doctor also told me that something was
damaged in my left ear. As a matter of fact, he observed some bruised
blood in my left ear. So he attributed that to being the cause of my
tinnitus.
My ill was finally taken care of by an acupuncturist. So you may want
to check around if there is a good one that could be referred to you.
Go for 2 treatments at the most and see if anything clicks.

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Larry Lix - 21 Sep 2005 22:28 GMT

Took the words right out of my mouth.

i am no doctor but knowing what doctors do in this puzzling field named
tinnitus, I would reserve my opinion to his verdict of your ill. i had
a bang on my left side too and a doctor also told me that something was
damaged in my left ear. As a matter of fact, he observed some bruised
blood in my left ear. So he attributed that to being the cause of my
tinnitus.
My ill was finally taken care of by an acupuncturist. So you may want
to check around if there is a good one that could be referred to you.
Go for 2 treatments at the most and see if anything clicks.

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Elly Byrne - 21 Sep 2005 21:07 GMT

A slight hearing loss is often associated with tinnitus. If the
tinnitus then improves the hearing loss will also improve.

Your fall most likely caused something in your neck to be shifted.

Can you find a trusted physical therapist who could gently manipulkate
the neck?
Or you could do some simple neck exercises and stretches that could
straighten the neck out.

http://eebee.net/TinnitusIsaPainintheNeck.shtml

Elly's Tinnitus Resources
http://eebee.net/

>Hi. I'm 27 years old. I suffered 5 years ago an injure to the back of
>my head. I fell down and I hit the sidewalk with the back of my head,
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>tell me if I may have a slightly chance to recover the hearing on my
>right ear? Thank you for reading

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Howard Gutnick - 22 Sep 2005 00:58 GMT

>A slight hearing loss is often associated with tinnitus. If the
> tinnitus then improves the hearing loss will also improve.

Yes tinnitus can be associated with a slight hearing loss or even normal
hearing. But improvement of the tinnitus does not necessarily mean that the
hearing will improve or vice versa.

And he stated that he can't hear at all from his right ear. But we can't say
that the ear is deaf/dead without a hearing test. When there is a
significant difference between the ears, the brain only "hears" from the
better ear. One informal way of determining if a poorer is deaf is to put a
telelphone up to the ear. If you can hear something, the ear isn't
deaf/dead.

HNG

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