I would be interested to know more about your autoimmune hearing loss, I am headed to the ENT tomorrow morning to have a tube put in one ear, the eardrum is severely retracted. I have a positive ANA and HLA-b27 and elevated CCP. My symptoms have the doctor thinking along the lines of ankylosing spondylitis, arthritis and/or connective tissue disorder. I've had serious issues with my ears for years, they now think it's related and I am beginning the process of looking into that.