Hi Camino..... Your husbands has exactly the same symptoms that I had starting 4 years ago. I also had the oral steroids and then injections into my eardrum (boy that is so not fun!). The treatment helped but only temporarily. My hearing eventually got worse. I have had this same course of treatment three times now with only minor improvement followed by more deterioration. I have had second opinions and each doctor has said this is the protocol for treatment of sudden hearing loss.

In my case three of my doctors thought that the loss was caused by antibiotics I was taking at the time. Since it keeps happening now they tend to think that my autoimmune disease is the cause. Each time the disease causes an increase in inflammation my hearing gets worse. So now it's all about keeping the inflammation in my body at a low rate. I take medicine for this and also have done some research online about other things to do to keep inflammation down.

I realize that there might be many different possible causes for your husband's hearing loss but maybe you will find some of this helpful. A second opinion is a great idea. Hang in there and keep working at getting help. Judy