Sensations in good ear after bad ear treated.

Are you taking any benzos? They are notorious for causing similar symptoms to MM, especially if you are tapering off of them.

Benzos include, but are not limited to, valium, Xanax, klonopin, ativan, etc.

 

This is kind of long, so at your leisure ...

I did have some weirdo sounds and whatnot right after acoustic neuroma surgery which i later thought was just everything adjusting as steroids wore off and tissues changed etc. I think there must have been a lot of fluid in and around my head. I had some very strange hearing things. For instance, if i lay in bed upstairs with one ear down, you could flick a light switch anywhere and i would hear it. Dont ask, i have no idea but it was consistent. The blinkers in my car seemed like i could hear them in my deaf ear. Etc etc. I was frankly happy and perhaps secretly surprised to be alive after the surgery so i just accepted this kind of thing. I was also somewhat more emotional than my normal self about things that did not even involve me, the Jon Benet murder, things like that. I always chalked it up to the anesthetic but moving the brain around may do some off things too.

That all wore off after a few months.

I am not sure what other possibilities might be involved with a vns where the hearing part of the nerve is preserved, crossed wires and that kind of thing.

But i would certainly bring everything up to the surgeon and if things are way off 8 weeks out and he is not giving you answers then i would see another doctor(s). I had very good doctors in Pittsburgh tell me to give up and that is why i ended up in LA.


There is another possibility you may want to ask your specialists about.

I had had acoustic neuroma surgery which destroyed both parts of the eight nerve in my right ear in 1997. In 2007, I developed cochelar hydrops in the left (good) ear. While the ent's did not have a solution to my hydrops, they all did agree that the literature says it is a 'known phenomonon' that acoustic surgery sometimes causes menieres/hydrops in the good ear. It is believed to be an immune reaction to 'sequestered proteins' which were released at the time of the surgery. It took me a long time to understand what the bleep that meant much less accept it. As I understand it, inner ears have proteins that are walled off and unknown to the body's immune system. Sometimes something such as surgery releases these proteins and the body imagines they are foreign and reacts. The bad part is, the body can react against both ears, not just the one that was assaulted. And that is how i got hydrops in the good ear i was told. I do not know if it is a fact in my case because i also responded very well to antivirals, but i also got improvement with allergy treatment which would kind of point to the immune thing i think. I go with the perfect storm theory especially since mine waited ten years to develop. But if you inexplicably develop menieres in the good ear, it may be a possibility.

Please keep in mind, that although the eighth nerve in the right ear has been gone for 20 years and i developed a fast progressing hydrops in the left ear 10 years ago, i now have regained normal hearing (music and everything) in the good ear and do not suffer from any balance issues beyond the compensating with my eyes that any adult does after losing one balance nerve. I climb on ladders, ride bikes etc. So please dont think if this is involved it is the end of the road at all.