iamwrong:
I just learnt from your new update..... having similar hearing issue..........the questions the doctor asked you like the catarrh symptoms etc i seem to experience it as well..... besides occasionally i hear ringing tunes or echoes for a brief period of time..........used hearing aids some years back. Honestly i felt hatred for it as it caused me emotional stress, harassment and embarrassment apart from the fact that it caused me and people around a lot of inconvenience........finally stopped using it to the annoyance of my parents back then as they would be using it harass and remind me of how expensive it costs to obtain it (about 600k back then 2007), besides it was also expensive to maintain as i would be visiting the doctor to buy new sets of batteries for my aids and also resolve one or two issues about it as well of which the doctor would collect money for the services rendered. I wowed i would never allow them get me something that expensive and harass me constantly, even when they begged appealed, my peace of mind was precious. Funny enough my hearing seems to have improved better than in the past, even my friends and family members observed and comments on it as well from time to time, i also do alot of DO-IT-YOURSELF hearing/ear therapies by researching massively on the internet about various ear problems, symtoms and DIY solutions, i must admit it has really helped my hearing. from experience most Nigerian ENT Doctors are after the money and not how they can help u resolve and treat your hearing loss passionately. it was when my parents travelled to India that they discovered that my ENT doc was ripping us off by giving me hearing aids that re not tailored or not designed for my specific hearing loss/problem and also selling at an overpriced rate (my folks bought two different sets of hearing aids back then from our Nigerian ENT doc). i was using analogue instead of a customized digital, the indian ENT doctor was mad and angry at such wickedness and gave me a set of digital aids at a cheaper price at 250K. hence we cut ties with doc. It was an eye opener for me. hence i made up my mind that if i am to go for any ENT services and hearing aids. its india, canada, us, uk. but india is the best and is cheaper compared to the other countries.

Wow... Thank you for this. I was shocked when I read 600k. Jeez! That is enough to buy 3 plots of land at that time at a place like Sango Otta . It was around 2008 that we were told that hearing aid cost 50-150k, depending on the case at hand.

I had the deafness again from last week till Friday but everything is fine again. I am going to LUTH on 8 and lay complaints. As the time of typing this, my right nostril does not breathe freely, more like it has partial blockage caused by Catarrh but I do not have Catarrh, except for some phlegm being excreted from nasal areas to my mouth.

Well, let us see how it goes.

hey bro i have a similar issue then did you go with a referall letter? pls drop ur whatsapp no

robotix:
Can hearing loss be cured?

I had an illness in 2000 and was given quinine which later affected my hearing abilities. Sounds sounded like when you deep your head in water and people are talking.

after some weeks, I could hear properly than when the loses started, but the left ear did most of the hearing, I receive al calls with the left one.

In 2008, I went to UBTH for test where sounds were ran through my ears, left and right one, , which confirmed my left ear hear well than the right one because the frequency graph on the right one was very low than the left one.

After that day, it was come back today, come back tomorrow that I got tired.

I lost my mum same year and it became tougher for us. We were more concerned about surviving than anything else.

Thankfully, we survive the trial period but for 1 month + now, I can notice I can't hear as much as I used to with the left ear. It goes on and offer. It's back now and lasting 1 week+ and sounds now come out like faulty radio speaker sounds. So we decided to visit a nearby specialist hospital where the doctor said we should go to LUTH.

Can hearing loss be cured? Which is the best place In Lagos to get treated for something like this please?

I need help please because I am already feeling worried I might not hear again.

HBOT and hearing loss: Most people with hearing loss must have delayed seeking for help at the right place and time. Hearing loss is an emergency.

Not all individuals who promptly report and are given standard treatment will recover.
Most hearing loss or noices in the ear or tinnitus or ringing in the ear are mainly caused by insufficient blood supply into the inner structures of the ear.

Blood supply to the inner ear can be caused by many factors like inflamation, noice, systemic illness, vascular spasms, allergy to drugs, othotoxic drugs like quinine, gentamycine; the list is endless.
The blood carries oxygen and nutrients. So if there is not enough blood supply, there will not be enough oxygen and therefore no hearing.

To improve hearing you have to deliver oxygen to the sensory cells responsible for hearing.
Every treatment given by your doctor is meanth to increase oxygen level in the ear, but
there is no safer, quicker and better way of doing this than by hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

HBOT heals sensory cells that have been starving of oxygen in the inner structures of the ear.

HBOT is worth trying when nothing else works.

1) wesleyhyperbaric.com.au/conditions/idiopathic-sudden-sensorineural-hearing-loss/

2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11817844/

3) https://www.tinnitusformula.com/library/hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-for-tinnitus/

4) https://www.tinnitusformula.com/library/hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-for-tinnitus/

oxypress:

HBOT and hearing loss: Most people with hearing loss must have delayed seeking for help at the right place and time. Hearing loss is an emergency.
Not all individuals who promptly report and are given standard treatment will recover.
Most hearing loss or noices in the ear or tinnitus or ringing in the ear are mainly caused by insufficient blood supply into the inner structures of the ear.
Blood supply to the inner ear can be caused by many factors like inflamation, noice, systemic illness, vascular spasms, allergy to drugs, othotoxic drugs like quinine, gentamycine; the list is endless.
The blood carries oxygen and nutrients. So if there is not enough blood supply, there will not be enough oxygen and therefore no hearing.
To improve hearing you have to deliver oxygen to the sensory cells responsible for hearing.
Every treatment given by your doctor is meanth to increase oxygen level in the ear, but
there is no safer, quicker and better way of doing this than by hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
HBOT heals sensory cells that have been starving of oxygen in the inner structures of the ear.
HBOT is worth trying when nothing else works.
1) wesleyhyperbaric.com.au/conditions/idiopathic-sudden-sensorineural-hearing-loss/
2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11817844/
3) https://www.tinnitusformula.com/library/hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-for-tinnitus/
4) https://www.tinnitusformula.com/library/hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-for-tinnitus/

hello
so where I get it

Location is Port Harcourt, phone number: google these words : 'Port Harcourt hbot' and the number will show.

oxypress:

HBOT and hearing loss: Most people with hearing loss must have delayed seeking for help at the right place and time. Hearing loss is an emergency.

Not all individuals who promptly report and are given standard treatment will recover.
Most hearing loss or noices in the ear or tinnitus or ringing in the ear are mainly caused by insufficient blood supply into the inner structures of the ear.

Blood supply to the inner ear can be caused by many factors like inflamation, noice, systemic illness, vascular spasms, allergy to drugs, othotoxic drugs like quinine, gentamycine; the list is endless.
The blood carries oxygen and nutrients. So if there is not enough blood supply, there will not be enough oxygen and therefore no hearing.

To improve hearing you have to deliver oxygen to the sensory cells responsible for hearing.
Every treatment given by your doctor is meanth to increase oxygen level in the ear, but
there is no safer, quicker and better way of doing this than by hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

HBOT heals sensory cells that have been starving of oxygen in the inner structures of the ear.

HBOT is worth trying when nothing else works.

1) wesleyhyperbaric.com.au/conditions/idiopathic-sudden-sensorineural-hearing-loss/

2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11817844/

3) https://www.tinnitusformula.com/library/hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-for-tinnitus/

4) https://www.tinnitusformula.com/library/hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-for-tinnitus/

Thanks. I was beginning to wonder if anybody experienced in this is on nairaland. My problem now is that my has been going on and off. Since October. It will come on, I won't hear well with the left ear, last for some days and the go off, come back after a while but I have noticed I have not e been able to hear as loud as I could few weeks into October because severe decline started in October ending which has been going on and off.

I am seriously worried right now. The problem on about 2 weeks and half back and I started hearing again just last week here but not as loud as before. Please I need help, How much does the portharcourt clinic charge. I am still waiting to get the test done at LUTH, which is on the 8TH.

Sometimes even my phone will be useless to me that I can't even make any meaning from calls and some other times, I will be able to hear the sounds. It often sound like radio speaker that is faulty.

meekmill:
hey bro i have a similar issue
then did you go with a referall letter?
pls drop ur whatsapp no

Yes, I went and they asked me to book a test date. Which comes on 8th of December. I will keep updating this thread to make it useful to others as time goes on.

I am reading that Vitamin D and E helps with hearing loss as well. Please what foods can I take to help with this problem?

oxypress:
Location is Port Harcourt, phone number: google these words : 'Port Harcourt hbot' and the number will show.

Please, what is the cost of this treatment in Portharcourt?

I can send it to whatsapp. Hope you got the number.
How can people get urgent solution when booking takes so long.

oxypress:
I can send it to whatsapp. Hope you got the number.

How can people get urgent solution when booking takes so long.

i JUST BUZZED you now. check.

oxypress:
I can send it to whatsapp. Hope you got the number.

How can people get urgent solution when booking takes so long.

y not drop it here

Sorry about what is happening to you.You seem to have 2 problems the hearing loss from quinine called Ototoxicity, the left ear being worse and the right ear seems to have a problem called Otitis Media with effusion which gets worse when you have a blocked nose and therefore a blocked Eustachian tube. Unfortunately the ototoxicity cannot be reveresed, the management for that is hearing aids. The other ear if confirmed to have OME can be treated with a combination of drugs and in some rare instances surgery. But you are not a good candidate for surgery because that is your better ear. Also hearing aids do NOT treat, cure or improve hearing loss. They just amplify sound making noise louder so the residual hearing can pick it up. Hearing aids vary in sophistication from simple analogue hearing aids which just make all noises louder to very sophisticated digital hearing aids which can be regulated to tune out some noises which would disturb the understanding of speech and concentrate on noises within the speech range. Technology keeps improving every day and now we have implantables like the bone bridge which are used for some forms of hearing aid but generally not in cases of Ototoxicity.
Hope I have shed some light on the issue. Sorry if there are typographical errors I am trying to type with my kids harassing me.

!

robotix:
Yes, I went and they asked me to book a test date. Which comes on 8th of December. I will keep updating this thread to make it useful to others as time goes on.

is the referall letter compulsury?
and did you pay any money for the booking test?

meekmill:


is the referall letter compulsury?
and did you pay any money for the booking test?

Recommendation letter is necessary since I was coming from Another clinic. I didn't pay because it's government hospital but not sufficient to handle ENT cases--Hence the referral.

I have not paid for the test but given a date to come for it. However, I will be going for private ENT clinic today. Cos waiting doesn't seem to be helping me in this case as my hearing isn't getting back to normal as it was early October--It's been going and coming back since then.

Where are you based? If you are in Lagos, you should visit a Clinic to at least do a test.

What's your case like? I can still hear but not so loud as I used to and I am guessing I will have to use hearing aid to help me for the rest of my life.

allycat:
Sorry about what is happening to you.You seem to have 2 problems the hearing loss from quinine called Ototoxicity, the left ear being worse and the right ear seems to have a problem called Otitis Media with effusion which gets worse when you have a blocked nose and therefore a blocked Eustachian tube. Unfortunately the ototoxicity cannot be reveresed, the management for that is hearing aids. The other ear if confirmed to have OME can be treated with a combination of drugs and in some rare instances surgery. But you are not a good candidate for surgery because that is your better ear. Also hearing aids do NOT treat, cure or improve hearing loss. They just amplify sound making noise louder so the residual hearing can pick it up. Hearing aids vary in sophistication from simple analogue hearing aids which just make all noises louder to very sophisticated digital hearing aids which can be regulated to tune out some noises which would disturb the understanding of speech and concentrate on noises within the speech range. Technology keeps improving every day and now we have implantables like the bone bridge which are used for some forms of hearing aid but generally not in cases of Ototoxicity.
Hope I have shed some light on the issue. Sorry if there are typographical errors I am trying to type with my kids harassing me.

Thanks a lot. The better ear hasn't gotten better since this problem started. I have not fallen ill prior to this neither have I taken any medicine.

This I can say I have done is using cotton bud to clean my ear too much, but not to the extent of reaching my eardrum though. Then I start having the strange feeling of not hearing as loud as it used to be. By ending of October, it was worse and sound came out like faulty radio speaker. It later started acting like it was getting better for few days only to come back again and yes, my nostrils often feel blocked, partially and it often move from one nostril to the other. Right now as I am typing this, the left nostril can't breathe freely. Maybe later in the day, it will be right one just as experienced when you have catarrh.

As at Monday last week, I could hear a little better but by Wednesday or so, the sound Volume has reduced again.

Please help with more information as much as you can.

allycat:
Sorry about what is happening to you.You seem to have 2 problems the hearing loss from quinine called Ototoxicity, the left ear being worse and the right ear seems to have a problem called Otitis Media with effusion which gets worse when you have a blocked nose and therefore a blocked Eustachian tube. Unfortunately the ototoxicity cannot be reveresed, the management for that is hearing aids. The other ear if confirmed to have OME can be treated with a combination of drugs and in some rare instances surgery. But you are not a good candidate for surgery because that is your better ear. Also hearing aids do NOT treat, cure or improve hearing loss. They just amplify sound making noise louder so the residual hearing can pick it up. Hearing aids vary in sophistication from simple analogue hearing aids which just make all noises louder to very sophisticated digital hearing aids which can be regulated to tune out some noises which would disturb the understanding of speech and concentrate on noises within the speech range. Technology keeps improving every day and now we have implantables like the bone bridge which are used for some forms of hearing aid but generally not in cases of Ototoxicity.
Hope I have shed some light on the issue. Sorry if there are typographical errors I am trying to type with my kids harassing me.

See what I found after you mentioned the possible cause:

Ear infections occur in various patterns. A single, isolated case is called an acute ear infection (acute otitis media). If the condition clears up but comes back as many as three times in a 6-month period (or four times in a single year), the person is said to have recurrent ear infections (recurrent acute otitis media). This usually indicates the Eustachian tube isn't working well. A fluid buildup in the middle ear without infection is termed otitis media with effusion, a condition where fluid stays in the ear because it is not well ventilated, but germs have not started to grow.

Source: http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/ear-infection/understanding-otitis-media-basics#2

The emboldened is what I have been experiencing. It will look like I am beginning to hear for 2-3 days and shut down again for much longer days, going to 1 week. After a while, I will start hearing louder and then it goes of. Like I said in my first quote to you, as at Monday, I could hear louder than I can hear now. Right now, I can't hear much if we compare last week Monday to 28 of November(Today).

Thanks.

Update: The Right nostril is now partially blocked while the left that was blocked before is now free.

cc: allycat

Side note: As at 13-15th of November, I couldn't hear well. Around this time, no phlegm was coming out of my nose into my mouth. However, by 16th of November I start noticing slight improvement in hearing, by 17th I noticed that phlegm was coming out and I was spitting them out as they came out, the hearing was improving and by 21 I could hear better than previous days. However, by 23rd to now, there has been a decline.

This has been the case with me. When there is a shut down, the phlegm doesn't come out. When it begins to improve the phlegm comes out often.

[quote author=robotix post=51438398] Recommendation letter is necessary since I was coming from Another clinic. I didn't pay because it's government hospital but not sufficient to handle ENT cases--Hence the referral.

I have not paid for the test but given a date to come for it. However, I will be going for private ENT clinic today. Cos waiting doesn't seem to be helping me in this case as my hearing isn't getting back to normal as it was early October--It's been going and coming back since then.

Where are you based? If you are in Lagos, you should visit a Clinic to at least do a test.

What's your case like? I can still hear but not so loud as I used to and I am guessing I will have to use hearing aid to help me for the rest of my life.[/quote





yea i stay in lagos

my is on the right ear. it not loud as the left ear. but i observe it blocked by wax .

robotix:
Update: The Right nostril is now partially blocked while the left that was blocked before is now free.

cc: allycat

Side note: As at 13-15th of November, I couldn't hear well. Around this time, no phlegm was coming out of my nose into my mouth. However, by 16th of November I start noticing slight improvement in hearing, by 17th I noticed that phlegm was coming out and I was spitting them out as they came out, the hearing was improving and by 21 I could hear better than previous days. However, by 23rd to now, there has been a decline.

This has been the case with me. When there is a shut down, the phlegm doesn't come out. When it begins to improve the phlegm comes out often.

so which ENT clinic are you visting?

allycat:
Sorry about what is happening to you.You seem to have 2 problems the hearing loss from quinine called Ototoxicity, the left ear being worse and the right ear seems to have a problem called Otitis Media with effusion which gets worse when you have a blocked nose and therefore a blocked Eustachian tube. Unfortunately the ototoxicity cannot be reveresed, the management for that is hearing aids. The other ear if confirmed to have OME can be treated with a combination of drugs and in some rare instances surgery. But you are not a good candidate for surgery because that is your better ear. Also hearing aids do NOT treat, cure or improve hearing loss. They just amplify sound making noise louder so the residual hearing can pick it up. Hearing aids vary in sophistication from simple analogue hearing aids which just make all noises louder to very sophisticated digital hearing aids which can be regulated to tune out some noises which would disturb the understanding of speech and concentrate on noises within the speech range. Technology keeps improving every day and now we have implantables like the bone bridge which are used for some forms of hearing aid but generally not in cases of Ototoxicity.
Hope I have shed some light on the issue. Sorry if there are typographical errors I am trying to type with my kids harassing me.

I am kinda broken right now. I was at the private clinic and the doctor referred me to a place to do test. We did the test and the man who carried out the test was saying hearing aid will be used and it cost 700k.

We have now return to the first clinic and the man isn't around at the time of typing this. He has gone back to teaching hospital and we are told to wait till 4-6PM.

I am very sure better ear can be solved. Please allycat, if you know a possible solution, help me. I can still hear sound with it except it comes out as muffled sounds.

I am broken really.

robotix:



I am kinda broken right now. I was at the private clinic and the doctor referred me to a place to do test. We did the test and the man who carried out the test was saying hearing aid will be used and it cost 700k.

We have now return to the first clinic and the man isn't around at the time of typing this. He has gone back to teaching hospital and we are told to wait till 4-6PM.

I am very sure better ear can be solved. Please allycat, if you know a possible solution, help me. I can still hear sound with it except it comes out as muffled sounds.

I am broken really.

hahah
ok how much did you pay for the test

meekmill:


hahah
ok how much did you pay for the test

Dude, this is not a laughing matter. I will try as much as possible to control myself and respond. I spent 26k yesterday and drugs were prescribed which will cost 28k. I will get the drugs today.

But allycat seem to be one who said something my case might be. My left nostril is often blocked that my right. Right now, it is the left nostril that is block.

Go to a private clinic and do yours. Waiting for me to answer you for every step is not wise cos your case is different from mine.

Thank you.

[quote author=robotix post=51452377]


I am kinda broken right now. I was at the private clinic and the doctor referred me to a place to do test. We did the test and the man who carried out the test was saying hearing aid will be used and it cost 700k.

We have now return to the first clinic and the man isn't around at the time of typing this. He has gone back to teaching hospital and we are told to wait till 4-6PM.

I am very sure better ear can be solved. Please allycat, if you know a possible solution, help me. I can still hear sound with it except it comes out as muffled sounds.

I am broken really.[/quote

Sorry for all you are going through. Unfortunately thee is very little I can do from a distance. Inbox me the names of the doctors and audiologist you are seeing, let me see if any is someone I know and then I will know what help I can render.

[quote author=allycat post=51479340][/quote] Thank you so much.

robotix:



I am kinda broken right now. I was at the private clinic and the doctor referred me to a place to do test. We did the test and the man who carried out the test was saying hearing aid will be used and it cost 700k.

We have now return to the first clinic and the man isn't around at the time of typing this. He has gone back to teaching hospital and we are told to wait till 4-6PM.

I am very sure better ear can be solved. Please allycat, if you know a possible solution, help me. I can still hear sound with it except it comes out as muffled sounds.

I am broken really.

sorry

[quote author=allycat post=51479340][/quote] I have sent a PM. Thanks.

Eleganza33:
sorry

it's okay. I will be fine.

robotix:


Dude, this is not a laughing matter. I will try as much as possible to control myself and respond. I spent 26k yesterday and drugs were prescribed which will cost 28k. I will get the drugs today.

But allycat seem to be one who said something my case might be. My left nostril is often blocked that my right. Right now, it is the left nostril that is block.

Go to a private clinic and do yours. Waiting for me to answer you for every step is not wise cos your case is different from mine.

Thank you.

am not laughing
I was shocked about the price of hearing aid

meekmill:


am not laughing
I was shocked about the price of hearing aid

Oh okay. I thought you were. I am still observing. Actually, to know the previous price of any product in this regime, just divide current price by 2. This means that before Buhari's take over, it could have been gotten for just 350k for a pair. Hearing aid are imported and not manufactured here, put in profit which the clinics might have to make for their investment and you have a price shooting through the skies.