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?