Hearing and fullness

I am not sure about your question regarding the damage to hearing. But I absolutely hate the fullness. When my fullness is especially bad, my head feels like a bowling ball. It feels so heavy and very, very uncomfortable.

 

describing it as fullness is the proper feeling...I have total hearing loss in left ear and some days are better then others...

 

I have had hearing aides since 2006, with fluctuating hearing loss, and I have experienced Hearing again since starting acyclovir and JOH regime! So I know it is still there! Today I have the fullness and low pitched tinnitus again, it discourages me, but I have to remember just yesterday I didn't have the loud tinnitus and I was hearing! So In my case anyway I know the damage has not been done at least in my left ear! I hope the same for you and everyone else!

 

my hearing has not returned in 10 days with positional vertigo. Fullness and bowling ball like syndrome...I'm at a lost

 

Excess fluid within the endolymphatic chamber - the physiological occurrence responsible for the sensation of aural "fulness" - effects hearing, yes. In theory, when said pressure breaches a critical level, the thin membrane separating the endolymphatic & perilymphatic chambers ruptures, subsequently inducing vertigo. Once the pressure has been released, this membrane heals & the fluid chemistries return to normal. It is thought that when this healing occurs the hearing recovers, although not always completely.

The Epley maneuver will allow you, alas perhaps only temporality, to remove benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) from this equation. The probability of further calcium crystals dislodging from the utricle & migrating into semicircular canals may hinge on your vitamin D levels; A recent study suggests (credit John) an association of osteoporosis with BPPV.

When you say bowling ball syndrome, how does this differ from aural fulness?

 

snoopy did you have the epley maneuver done? positional vertigo BPPV is easily treated

 

BPPV is also associated with MAV. vestibular migraines aka migraine associated vertigo (headache not required)

 

http://vestibular.org/migraine-associated-vertigo-mav
***keep in mind the most common form of MAV is w/o a migraine**

While migraine is often associated with benign recurrent vertigo of adults or paroxysmal vertigo of childhood,5,6,7 some migraine patients also present with true benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) even after the migraine headache event has ceased. This is thought to be caused by a combination of vascular events along with an alteration of neural activity associated with the migraine event.8,9 It is believed that these changes more commonly affect the utricle and/or the superior portion of the vestibular nerve and anterior vestibular artery, rather than the saccule and the inferior portion of the vestibular nerve and posterior vestibular artery.10,11 This may explain why results within the normal range are often obtained with vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) testing of migraine patients in the absence of true BPPV. Similarly normal findings have been reported in cases of migraine in the apparent absence of inferior vestibular neuritis, leading to the belief that if inflammation is in fact present as a result of the migraine, and is a cause for utricular BPPV, the local inflammation of the peripheral blood vessels and/or cranial nerve branches is more prevalent in those supplying the utricle rather than the saccule. However, VEMP also now can be helpful in differentiating the clinical presentation of migraine vs Meniere’s syndrome or BPPV. Usually following a migraine event, the VEMP intensity measures are commonly hyperresponsive, whereas with Meniere’s exacerbation the affected ear intensity response is hyporesponsive, and with BPPV the affected ear latency response is typically prolonged.

 

Good to see you back, Vicki

 

Thanks Nathan Been going on day trips before the summer ended plus I needed a break

 

Mmm, I'm not sure. To think out loud I would assume a similar scenario, however in this case the result of the inner ear equalising pressure accordingly, per se - devoid of rupture. Though this newly found, relatively rapid pressure change great enough to cause inner ear stress so to induce a short lived ((?) how long does this loud ringing last for?), higher level of tinnitus.

Have you noticed how many people become so accustomed to a stressful & busy lifestyle (high pressure), that upon receiving time off (equalisation), as enjoyable as time off is, find themselves stressed & irritable (tinnitus), due to the difficultly they're experiencing while having to readjust? The inner ear equivalent of that *chuckles

The level of anthropomorphism here is so great, I feel at one with the ancient greeks.

 

thought you might be interested to see some links below to research done by Prof Alec Salt at washington university schoold medicine. some of the pages are quite technical.

http://oto2.wustl.edu/cochlea/intro4.htm

http://oto2.wustl.edu/cochlea/

baloo

 

Thanks for posting Baloo

 

for me, the hearing loss was connected to the times that i have a full vertigo attack. Prior to a/v the ear pressure/fullness was there 24/7 but it was only during/around the vertigo attacks the hearing went away completely. And then each time, not all of it came back.