Having arrived at week 3 my ENT suggested intratympanic steroid injections. While not being optimistic regarding the recovery of any of my hearing he said that this would be a “Hail Mary” and still worth trying. We scheduled the first Injections, during which there is a numbing agent is put on the ear drum and then a long thin needle pierces through to the inner ear area injecting steroids. After the procedure the patient needs to lay still for about 15 minutes. Needless to s

Throughout the next couple of weeks I continued the oral steroids but they provided no change. I also did a brain MRI which showed some bright spots on my right side near the brain stem, but were later dismissed as “inflammation” at my next ENT follow up. At that point I had researched all possible causes for the sudden deafness and the accompanying symptoms and an acoustic tumor would have been a logical cause and with a straight forward intervention, restoring some hearing

Wednesday 08/06/2025. It took a few days to get an appointment with an ENT due to the weekend and some online scheduling confusion. At the office I was given an ear exam, which again was normal, as well as a hearing test which showed that I had no more hearing left on my right. It was a moment of shock, but I put my hope into treatment. The ENT prescribed 12 days of the max dosage of oral steroids, motion sickness meds for the vertigo, gave me a brain MRI script and sent me o

Saturday, 08/02/2025. After barely sleeping due to the tinnitus, I woke up with a severe sense of spinning. I was not able to raise my head without vomiting and was barely able to walk. We went straight to our local emergency room where I kept vomiting and dry heaving until I was given Droperidol, an antiemetic and sedative, which made want to crawl out of my skin, but gave me relief after about an hour. A CT scan and bloodwork came back normal. I was sent home and again refe

Friday 08/01/2025. During the late afternoon I was training one of my teen clients at our private training studio. He was cooling down and stretching on a fold out mat while I was sitting next to him on the weight bench. I don't remember what we were talking about, but it was a very relaxed atmosphere, when I suddenly my hearing disappeared and a very intense mix of hissing, whistling and high-pitched sounds took its place. I first thought it was a sudden pressure change, and