What a scary story! I’m not familiar with your experience of extreme sound sensitivity preceding a sudden hearing loss, although I recognize the medical response, which is to administer cortisone to reverse a sudden hearing loss. But that treatment is only effective when used very soon after the loss has occurred, as happened in your case twice. I think your family doctor is appropriate in ordering an MRI, clearly there’s something going on. My read on it is that the first doc under-treated you (sounds like she didn’t listen to your description of your sound sensitivity symptoms, which she attributed to ear wax—really??), but your family doctor was more on track, although I think the MRI should have been recommended the second time you reported the extreme sound sensitivity. Wishing you the best of luck.