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My sister used to have mild tinnitus but after her second Moderna shot it worsened a lot and has not gotten better. She also developed Hyperacussis. It has effected every part of her life. Had to quit CC skiing, piano playing, socializing, etc. Driving or riding in a car makes it worse. She had not gotten any of the boosters until recently when the Novavax became available. It did not worsen her T and H. I hope you’re doing better.
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I have had progressive hearing loss for over 40 yrs. I track my annual audiograms and they have been relatively steady.
I had the Pfizer shots last Jan/April. No booster. In January I tested positive for COVID and had a very mild case (no fever, just a couple of days of aches). By the summer I began to notice a change in the quality of sound. Voices periodically sounded distorted. I had another audiogram in Aug and there was no noticeable change in pure tone response from past ones. But I could tell a difference.
By October I began to notice very detectable tinnitus and reflected sound has become noticeably very loud (Hyperacusis?) Voices now are constantly distorted. My ENT (without any added testing) said, it's just natural hearing loss progression and that I should consider a cochlear implant.
This sounds like SSNHL that may have been brought on by COVID. I plan to get another opinion. I understand that steroids are often used to treat. Anyone have similar experience?
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Tinnitus is so variable from day to day I find it almost impossible to actually say that a given thing makes it better or worse. It’s annoying because you feel anxious about any medication that you have to take. Re hyperacusis, I have found that unlike tinnitus it can improve over time with gradual exposure to noise at first just what is tolerable then slightly louder etc. Mind you I would not feel comfortable with noise above 85 decibels and wouldn’t expose myself much beyond that.