This is not directly related to the CI — no new news there; healing continues to go just fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However…last night I experienced another sudden loss of some of the hearing in my good (non-implanted) ear. This is freaking me out a little. Everything sounds more distant, including my own voice; I’m even having problems hearing my husband, and he’s one of the few people I can normally hear consistently. Even with the hearing aid, I’m having trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A couple of doctors in the past have told me that if this should happen again, I should start taking steroids immediately and make an appointment with an ENT as soon as possible. So of course this happened on a Friday night; my timing always seems to suck (though this is better than the first time, when I was on a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean). I didn’t think calling on a Saturday would do any good, but my husband talked me into it, and it turned out they had an on-call doctor. I talked to him and he called in the steroid prescription for me and told me to call on Monday for an appointment — he gave me a different number than the normal appointments line and said to tell them he said to work me in as an emergency, so hopefully I’ll get in sooner than I have on previous occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not looking forward to the steroids, as they mess with my sleep and appetite, but temporary discomfort is better than permanent hearing loss. I hope it helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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