How did my low frequency hearing come back? Cochlear Hydrops

I am almost positive I had Cochlear Hydrops which started a couple of years ago. Ear felt full of water, sound was very distorted, tinnitus sometimes, Lost low frequency in the ear. I was told that once you lose the low frequency, your hearing cells are damaged permanently and won't reheal themselves.

At first my hearing was so bad that if someone sat to my left side in a movie theater I could barely understand them.

My cochlear hydrops cycled bad to good for a long time, when it was bad (distorted h earing) my low frequency hearing in my bad ear was lost. It even caused me to hear things strange because of the my two ears hearing sound differently. When my cochlear hydrops got better, things would clear up but my low frequency was not nearly as good as my good ear.

I did lots of hearing tests, in the first year, anything under 200HZ was pretty much lost. Then it got better to anything under 100HZ was pretty bad. my problem cycled for a long time, my ear was good, then got worse again, but even when my ear was good my low frequency was still diminished in the bad ear.

I started to take the Lipo Flavonoid Plus and I swear that really helped my ear stay good most of the time and stopped the weekly cycling. It did cycle, but every couple of months instead of weeks. Everytime I cut back on the dose or stopped, my hearing would eventually get worse again so I stayed on using this consistently.

It has been over 9 months since my ear cycled to bad and has stayed good. I then started to do some hearing tests again and to my shock my low frequency hearing sounds just as good as my good ear. I can hear all the very low frequencies around 30-60hz and it sounds just as loud as my good ear. I never thought this would be possible.

Since I was told that my low frequency would not come back after the cells were damaged, how is it that it came back?

Did my body repair the cells, did I not have cochlear hydrops to begin with? Without doubt my low frequency hearing loss was gone and came back. I even heard that higher frequency hearing cells will take over for the dead low frequency hearing cells and allow you to hear low frequency again.

 

I was very negative against any kind of supplements, I just figured they don't work. My doctor recommended me the Lipo Flavonoid Plus. I then went to amazon and was searching the reviews and I searched for menieres and cochlear hydrops. I was really shocked that there were many people who said this stuff only works for those problems and a lot of people had good results. That is why I decided to try that stuff.

I only about a half pill to a full pill a day split up twice a day. I don't want any negative side effects from taking this stuff so I keep the dosage as small as possible. Even with my hearing back to normal I still take about a half a pill a day. I want to give this stuff up but every time I did so in the past my hearing got worse so its hard to give it up completely again.

Just something interesting to point out. Could be just a coincidence but my hearing has been best when I decided to wear earplugs to sleep every night because of constantly being woken up. My hearing was getting better before that but still cycled to bad sometimes, but since I started to wear earplugs to sleep every night since late last year, I have yet to have my hearing get bad again.

I think it is just a coincidence though. However, it makes me wonder if by wearing earplugs it has helped my ear cells get better because of the lack of vibration on the cells for the night.

 

In the very beginning of my cochlear hydrops, I had this for a very short time, maybe an hour. Thankfully it went away and never came back. That really sucked. I would have had to wear an ear plug.

I also had a few times when my tinnitus was roaring. The odd thing at that time was when my tinnitus was bad my hearing seemed to be a bit clearer. I remember I was thinking, I would keep the tinnitus if I had the clearer hearing in that ear.

The first couple weeks my hearing was so messed up, so many odd things were going on. The next months afterward I had issues where voices sounded all weird, like scary weird. This was because my bad ear was hearing things differently and screwed up my brain processing of the information. My good ear was always 100% good, I always had that as a reference. What I should have done at that point was just put in a earplug in my bad ear.

A good test I used to do was pick up the phone and press the buttons. The dialtone I could not even hear in my bad ear, but as I went form 9 digit to 1 digit, I usually hear the 9,8,7,6 tones differently in my bad and good ear. The higher the digits the lower the tone and the worst I heard those digits.

Thankfully my ear got better, probably a full recovery. Took about 3 years.

I'll tell you guys this, I remember in the beginning I would give anything to get my hearing back to normal. I would pay hundred of thousands of dollars. I really thought it was lost forever. Now that it finally came back to normal, I take it for granted now, almost like I never even had an issue. I guess that is like everything in life, your body adapts to the new normal.

 

In the beginning of my problem I was doing a ton of research about this. I really didn't seem to find anything that would help. One person who was giving a lot of help online said, "your body has to sort it out" This meaning that your bodies healing ability has a lot to do with getting better or not.

The only thing I found that seemed to help was the lipo flavonoid plus. I never really could tell if diet really affected anything. Some times I thought diet mattered, but other times I wasn't so sure. Everything may seem to be a coincidence.

These are the things that I thought maybe helped:

1) Lipo Flavonoid Plus
2) sleeping with ear plugs
3) Very low restricted calorie diet, the less I ate in total the better I seemed.

None of these I can say for sure really helped and if just wasn't time and my body sorting itself out. Now I eat what I want and it doesn't matter. I never really seemed food or salt caused me issues. Sometimes I thought they did but I think it was just a coincidence. When your ear cycles every week, you will always try and pinpoint it to something or some food, but usually its not the case.

I am by no means 100% perfect, sometimes I can feel just a tinge of fluid or pressure in my bad ear starting and I worry it will start my issues again, but it hasn't over the past 8 months. Usually my problems start with a fluid buildup or pressure in my ear. Luckily over the past 8 months I have not had a single issue and my hearing seems to be about perfect. The longer I go without my hearing getting bad the better my hearing became.

I had Diplacusis very bad and that caused a lot of hearing issues. Usually the first thing I notice when my hearing is going is that in music with certain frequencies, I can hear a whistle because of Diplacusis and I know right away my hearing is getting bad.

An interesting thing is 20 years ago in my teenage years I went to the doctor complaining my left ear was hurting a little. After that visit the doctor said he could not find anything wrong and then it took 20 years later for me to develop my cochlear hydrops. So in a way my left ear has been a weak ear probably my whole life.
I figured at the time it was because of listening to music too loud in my car and I stopped all that and was protective about my hearing since my teenage years.