Meningioma: Anyone else? I'm frightened

@poofy, Find another Doctor! Your Dr. should help with an appeal to the insurance company. You have to fight for yourself. Be strong and fight for what you deserve. It's ok to cry but come back stronger.

@crowley53 oh my gosh, I'm so sorry that happened to you. I have never heard of sudden hearng loss. I bet it feels weird. I just had my hearing checked and both ears are below the normal hearing range. My doctor wants me to get hearing aids. But my insurance won't cover them. he said try them for 30 days and if I don't like them take them back. That seems weird to me if I need them why would he say that? I asked if if the loss was from the tumor and he sad "oh you have a tumor" its written all over the papers I feeled out. Righ there I lost my confidence in him. I gave him my mri cd and I don't think he could find the tumor. The way he was looking at it as to fast and jumping back and forth between images. Then he got up and said the tumor is not causing the hearing loss and walked away. Appontment over . So I'm not confident with him. He looked and acted like he was ninety. Kinda bent over and shuffeling his feet. So now I have to get another oppinion.

@dollyjaneprenzel , I'm doing fine so far. Just tired after radiation. Trying to back off being hard on myself for not doing more at home and in the yard.

@poofy ,No, they say the hearing loss is from a virus. I woke up deaf on the Lt side. It's called Sudden hearing loss. They don't know anything about it. They tried steroids by mouth then injected into the ear drum. It did nothing.

@griffin84 I would really like yo keep in touch. We can go through together

Its unnerving. I know I drove there but I couldnt do it again. I'm trying to get my husband to drive me more often. I'm affraid I'm going to be driving and forget where I am or where I'm going. Its s strange feeling

@poofy That is very frightening. I can just imagine how you must feel.

@crowley53 you have tumors on the right side but can't hear out of the left. Are the tumors related to the hearing loss?

llshields56 I'm kinda doing the same thing as you with the first fifty dates. I went to a hearing Dr. A few days ago. I have no memory of driving there, or where is was. I vaguely remember the doctor. Its so weird and scary

Good morning. Yes I have one also. I tripped and fell back in 2021, went to ER and was told that everything looked good, and that my Meningioma from 2006 hadn’t grown much. No one ever told me that I had one. Long story short, I had the Gamma Knife in March, 2024. It was amazing I was in and out in 1 day. Latest MRI, shows, that it hasn’t grown since. The outcome will be that it will eventually start slowly shrinking. Get a good Dr. and a good hospital. I’m fortunate to live within distance of Univ. of Pa. Good luck. I know that it maybe scary, but, fortunately they have a non-invasive procedure that hopefully you’ll qualify for.