Good luck, I hope your hearing comes back. I was shocked and excited when my hearing came back. It wasn't slowly getting better, it was immediate.

We're in the same boat. I woke up on August 6 2025 totally deaf in my left ear and so dizzy I could hardly walk. I got to my regular doctor and got an MRI immediately which fortunately ruled out a stroke or tumor. The dizziness abated somewhat but is persistent and damned annoying.

I went to an ENT and was given a high dose of oral steroids and a hearing test. Left side is totally gone, my right has hearing damage from working in loud environments for years. I've had tinnitus for many years from that and annoyingly it's still present on my left side to some degree, which just figures.

In a few days I'll get my third intratympanic shot. So far none of that has done a damned thing. I am glad I did all this right away so I have no regrets over missing a certain time frame but hold very little hope my hearing will return - I'm going through the motions. My ENT agrees with me that the chances of my hearing coming back are so low as to be unlikely. Apparently age is a factor at 61 and people who get persistent dizziness along with SSHL don't often recover their hearing.

I suppose it still could come back as it's only been a little over a month. I have been trying to work out my own form of vestibular therapy with some success. I can drive locally now, go to the gym, take short hikes with our dog but it's going to take quite some time to shake what I call the damned-ding-dong-dizzies.

I feel the need to put in a disclaimer that there are far worse things a person could get. Something just like this happened to my best friend not long ago and it was a lethal brain tumor. That said, I can still be angry, upset, did I mention angry ?