[Jelle Schrijver]

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Originally Posted by -=Germania=- /img/forum/go_quote.gif Don't worry too much about the bones - I recently got an all new set in my left ear!...covered mostly by insurance no less. If there is nothing thats can be done, don't worry so much.

Wow..... speechless......

That sounds as some major surgery. When my specialist talked about it, i head visions of opening up huge amount of my side face, just to get to it. Also, i had so small surgery done (if it is called that) which was very unpleasant. The doctor assured me that the procedure would not effect my hearing. That lying $%^&*. He placed a small tube in my eardrum to relieve the pressure inside my ear. But it turned out that it completely cancelled my precious hearing capacity for (sub)lows from my left ear. Any idea how irritating it is to be a bassplayer with IEM with a reduced low freq. hearing. Fortunately, after the tube had grown out of my eardrum, things went back to normal and i now can hear sublows freq. again with my left ear.

But Germania, how did the surgery effect you and your hearing (especially listening to music). And while where at it, where is your name derived from? I first thought you lived in Germany, but after having a better look, i guess it's Illinois, USA.

 

[dakkar]

Neat! Didn't know you could have ear bones replaced... Does it feel any different?

 

[-=Germania=-]

It doesnt feel really weird or anything.

I have had a history of hearing loss starting from when I was extremely young. Any time that I had to take a sick day from school was because I had a pretty bad ear infection.

I could only hear things that were louder than 55Db inmy left ear and 25db in my right ear. My auditory nerve was great, it was just conductive hearing loss.

Well they go into my left ear and discovered that my bones were basically all eroded. They made repairs to one and replaced the other two. I am bionic!

For the first 4 months my frequency distribution was kindof weird. I had a decided bias towards mids. Over time though, it has continued to get better and better. It is very close to my right ear now and that is all I really wanted. I am far too young to be wearing hearing aids the rest of my life.

So now, I have only mild hearing loss overall since I am out of the normal range. This doesn't really effect me much and I got to keep the wicked skills of reading lips and extra preception of people's feelings/reactions.

The only thing that it affected is that is was hard for me to maintain a good seal with IEM's in my left ear since I have a ever so slight crease down my canal. The doctor I went to is in the top 3 for this surgery and the work really shows (one of the top 50 doctors in Chicago). You cannot tell that I had ear surgery unless you look very closely. All the cuts followed the natural lines of the ear and the incision was very small. If you see my review of the FreQShow you can see my ear in that review and I still don't think that you can tell.

My S/N is just an old S/N that my brother gave me as kids when we would play strategy games online. It started out as germanblonde and then evolved to germania. My aim name is my current one and the one that I use for everything else besides this forum.

 

[aaron313]

A few years back I noticed a pressure difference between my ears. I saw a doc, who said it was the ET. After some time the pressure was relieved, so I think everything is fine now. It really was not a big deal compared to the other problems people have with their ears, but I tend to become irritated by the smallest disturbances. A few weeks back my right ear started to hurt, so I started listening at lower volumes. It's possible that it was infected, but I didn't bother seeing a doctor. Ears can be fickle, so I would encourage everyone to get them checked regularly by a doctor.

 

[dakkar]

You were very fortunate to have such good care. A friend of mine has a relative that suffered ear infections as a child/teen. Somehow, the infections lasted so long and were not treated properly (never diagnosed properly) that she lost most of her hearing and she suffered brain damage. That's why I get really nervous as soon as my ears feel slightly different.

It's kind of scary what could happen without proper care and treatments.

 

[-=Germania=-]

My parents don't shell out for much, but health insurance is one of them.

They make sure that we all have good health and dental (still in college).

I had another health thing land me in the emergency room in December. The doctors were idiots and told me that I was fine after doing exams after the first time in the emergency room. Not just 2 hours afte rthe last exam, I was passed out and bleeding in the entryway of my house with emergency workers hovering over me.

Well, they kept misdiagnosing me (they still have no clue what it was) and I was in the hospital going through these periods of time where I was bleeding out and passing large clots. They kept giving me large doses of hormones which had no effect. Then, every few hours, they were trying to kick me out of the hospital - even though they had no diagnoses and I was still bleeding out. Dispeakable people!
I was literally begging for surgery to just stop it and then the doctor agreed. He almost left me on the operating table because he was so irritated with the nurses calling him all the time (they had no clue what to do). Finally got the surgery and was on these pills for a while. I have had no problems since. The person I feel the worst for is my Mother who was with me throgh all of it. She slept in a chair by my side the whole time and I may have been lost without her. She is the one who would get the nurses when I started to bleed out and make sure that she was there every time after I woke from passing out. I really owe her.

Just don't blindly trust doctors!
I made a point to learn a lot of medical science just because of the faults of poorly educated doctors.

I would spit on that man if I ever see him again!
My current doctor is Stanford and Northwestern Educated, top of her class. She even said that he was an idiot and all he could do was catch babies.

I have also been to countless audiologists and I can tell you that the man who did my surgery was the only person who ever pin-pointed the problem. The person who I see is a good friend of his and is very competant (actually pointed me to the guy who did my surgery).

Spend some time and find out who the best doctor is, not just A Doctor.

 

[dakkar]

Good advice. Here in Canada, with public healthcare, many times the doctors (especially emergency's) are overworked and really tired. Many times they are just trying to "move" people in and out as fast as possible. Therefore, wrong diagnoses and mistakes are frequent. Sometime, you need to insist and even ask for another doctor to get proper care.

 

[Alba]

I have the same problem and now my ears get full after listening to any music for a short time. Headphones are not great to be honest. I have been in the music industry most of my life and always found headphones fatiguing. ETD can take a long time to get better and it can be aggravated by sound or at least thats my experience. Do you find that the ETD affects your hearing. I can hear fairly well but I feel there is a barrier and it could be better. I am sensitive to sound now. Get well soon.

 

[sharus100]

Hello ,
 
I am going through exactly what you went through, It started 6 months back where my haring started to fluctuate and there was a hiss T . 4 to 5 ENT , mental trauma etc. The sound is not clear dropping and lost some BASS as well on the ear. I cant even use the headphones for 30 seconds there is a severe pain. I can ear an Click (not T) when I swallow. Yes been plugged on the nose and suffering with cold sometimes. How are you feeling now ?? BTW I was in Turkey few months back. Great Place !