Hi, I have totally deftness in my left ear. It was sudden acute. I had no idea this was an emergency. It started happening during Covid and nobody would look in my ear. Finally after three months I had a hearing test and two days later was sent to an ENT where they thought that I had a Glomus tympanicum vascular tumour in my inner left ear. while waiting for exploratory surgery to see if there was a tumour, the ENT injected my ear with prednisone several times and had me on 60 mg of prednisone a day, which brought my hearing up to 90% !!! One EnT wanted to keep me on prednisone for life. I didn’t like this option for obvious long term effects on the rest of my body. As soon as I stopped orally taking prednisone and having my ear injected, my hearing went completely. This took only a month. I am currently 100% death in my left. They told me this was a secondary auto immune disorder. I was diagnosed with Takayasu’s vasculitis since 2004.
I started noticing the hearing loss in September 2021. I was 39 years old. They have since told me to keep a close eye on my right, very precious ear. Oddly enough as of tonight I feel like I’m having some hearing loss and hoping to go for a hearing test tomorrow on my right side..