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JK I had a miserable experience with a new to me ENT. After spending the $575 to the have the mandatory hearing test to gain access to the ENT. His highly educated diagnoses "you have bad ears, some people are born with bad knees you got bad ears" He did not listen to any of my concerns nor address any of my questions. I have filed a complaint with provider and am waiting to hear back from them. Oh and indecently about 10 days before my appointment I pretty much lost my left ear! I can only hear treble no bass or low tones at all!!! He had no idea why that would be, and of course my ears looked "perfect" and according to the testing my e tubes are working perfectly normal. I asked why do my ear feel plugged and voices sound muffled? "you got bad ears"
This is so frustrating! I'm left handed thus use my left ear for the phone. I can't hear anyone in that ear and switching is proving to be quite challenging to say the least!!!!!!
I may follow up with the University of Wisconsin medical school for advice. I am waiting to hear back from the friend of a friend that is currently in school to become an audiologist. Hope he can mention my condition to an educator and if nothing else raise an eyebrow?
FYI - the chewing gum made my jaw sore from chewing, did nothing for my ears!
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@jfobes I am so sorry for what you have gone through, how frustrated you must be. I agree with @capausz, that is outrageous.
I presume you must live in the Wisconsin area. If you were close to NYC I would recommend an excellent audiologist there who is fairly renown I believe. I hope you do find someone who can give you the help you need and deserve. Some medical professionals are hopeless unfortunately and it sounds as if that audiologist is one of them.
The rating site healthgrades.com does have audiologists on it, you might check there. I never have any faith in them unless there are quite a few reviews though. I just checked my own audiologist and she has one, five stars, but if I was looking for someone I would probably try to find someone with many more than one review.
I hope that you are able to get some help from the person who is in school to become an audiologist. I definitely would, as I said before though, go to a major medical center. Most have audiology departments I believe.
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I feel your pain as it's similar to experiences I had many years ago. I was given no hope for help of any kind for the adult onset hearing loss I had been diagnosed with in my 20s. "Bad ears; learn to live with it." If you live in Wisconsin, as your post suggests, I encourage you to get in touch with one of the HLAA chapters in that state. There are active chapters in Appleton/Fox Valley, Madison and Milwaukee. I believe chapters are starting to develop in southwestern Wisconsin and in Door County. People who participate in HLAA will share information about their experiences. They don't promote products or providers, but they can certainly share their positive (and negative) experiences with them. It really helps to talk to other people with hearing loss in an open forum. Check out the HLAA-Wisconsin website at hlaawi.org HLAA-WI is holding a state conference next fall that might interest you. Regardless, don't take this kind of treatment as 'the answer'. There is help for poor hearing and 'bad ears'. You deserve to find a provider, ENT, Audiologist, etc. who will work with you to find it. There are many excellent providers in Wisconsin.
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@jfobes, your ENT’s response and behavior was outrageous, unprofessional, and so disappointing. I commend you for challenging his fee with your insurance company. Too often, doctors are permitted to get away with unsatisfactory work.