I actually have not lost much of my hearing. When I am having vertigo issues I definitely notice hearing loss in my bad ear. I have noticed that the more attacks I have the worse my hearing gets in my bad ear. I was diagnosed a little over 2 years ago.
Leslie

There is not set answer. When my MD is kicking in it is really bad. Recently, I had probably lost 80% of the hearing in my left ear. Then, about six weeks ago, my MD cleared up a lot and I got a lot of my hearing back. Go figure.

Mine also goes up and down with attacks. I have a loss of 80% that i dont seem to ever get back. Had MD for 4 years now.

When my hearing was first tested in 2011 I had mild hearing loss in my left ear which is my affected ear, then in sept 2013 I now have severe hearing loss in my left ear so to me that is pretty quick its enough to scare me anyways :(

I have had MD for a very long time and my hearing loss is characteristic but has not progessed at all. Hearing loss is not a big problem for me. Visual perception is. This causes driving problems and I fall a lot.
Kerry

Thanks for your comment. I guess everyone is different. But how did you find out how many hearing loss you have? My test shows hearing loss but do not understand the result. And it did not notice if it said X% amount of hearing loss. I feel clueless.

To me, hearing loss is a relative term. In many cases (mine for instance), there are certain frequency ranges that have 'Mild to Moderate" losses, and others where it is 'Moderate to Severe.' Rather than trying to quantify an overall loss, it seems more accurate to grade the percentage by how USEFUL what's left is.

In the 1000cps (cycles per second) to 4000cps range, loss is mild to moderate, but above and below (especially below), it touches moderate to severe in sporadic ranges. The net effect is that even though sound is perceptible at lower volumes in some frequencies, when trying to string it all together (such as processing speech or music), so much is missing that the bad ear is is essentially useless.

Personally, to shut out the Hyperacusis, dampen the Tinnitus, and reduce confusing input my brain tries to translate, I hear better with an ear-plug in the bad ear. Recognizing music has become difficult without getting some of the words, and electronically reproduced sound such as TV or Phone is little more than random scratchy noise, listening with the bad ear alone. And oh, how I miss music =(. Soft, mellow music 'used' to relax me, and I would listen often especially when stressed; now it has the opposite effect.

A home tool to help determine range and overall loss can be found at audiocheck . net - the test on page 2 even charts your results you with overlays showing where useful real-world ranges are compatible with yours. The ENT I have seen says the in-office test shows about a 50% loss in the bad ear (which not so terrible to him), but from in here, it is closer to 90% when usefulness is the criteria.

Again, I chart RANGES, not averages - 6 months in, the most affected ranges are slowly degrading, while the better ranges are not. Just to mention, the tinnitus is growing in intensity (mine sounds like holding down the top three octaves on a cheap electronic organ at about 60db all at once), the hyperacusis is staying even, or slightly improving with time.

Warren

This is a great ? and one I asked in another post. I thought U had to have some hearing loss to be diagnosed with meniere's or else it could be that beign positional thing instead? And I wonder if age plays a part in it too?
I lost most of my heairng very rapidly and it was THAT which finally had my audiologist give me the diagnosis. I had always a little hearing loss and when I first started getting sick, as the dizziness and tinnitus came first, my office mates were the ones who noticed my hearing getting worse and people's voices were sqeaking when I was on the phone. i went and had it tested and they said it HADN"T changed but suggested a hearing aid. Well by this time, I was having a horrible time with the nausea and panic attacks while driving so having to even drive to the audiologist which was only about 15 miles, almost would put me in the hospital! I've heard if one is disagnosed early enough, to try those gabpentin shots to save your hearing?? My hearing went very quickly:( It took me about 2 years to finally get everything settled down and able to function better...I tried the Nucca chiropractic and that helped with the hydrops and vertigo (give it a try if u haven't yet and esp if you've had whiplash injury in the past) and by now, most everyone on here has probably heard me taut the ginger capsules:)
I can't do a hearing aid as it just makes every thing worse so I use caption on the tv, very limited use of a phone and am able to read lips pretty well. Like Outlander, i miss silence (which is ironic considering I'm legally deaf but the tinnitus is constant)... and soft music tho some how my other ear does produce a melody??! But it can make one feel a bit nutty if U let it:)

Wow. So everyone is different. I was on the steroid that started with "P" for two weeks. The first Wednesday my ear started to ring loud and has not stop since then which was two weeks ago. I want to refused all treatment because I do not see the point of going through any treatment and they does not stop this thing or hearing loss. Thanks for all your feedback. It does help a lot.

I had been noticing a gradual hearing lose over the last 10 years thought it was mostly due to my employment in heavy construction. Had my first vertigo attack in 2005 only didn't know what it was at that time had just come off an amusement ride and felt dizzy for a while after later in spring of 2006 had some issues and went to E.N.T. for testing had %40 hearing loss at that time and he said it may be Meniere's. In the following years of treatment and testing no episodes but continuing increase of hearing loss,.fast forward to spring 2013had two drop attacks 1 week apart both on a Tuesday at 1:45 pm second one required a week in the hospital .Was transferred to Jefferson university hospital in phila pa met with an otolaryngologist who got me set on the right path for me at that time %60 hearing loss then soon after I was at %90 loss and then it leveled out some days it improves with low air pressure but most days it stays at %90 .I have a cross over hearing aid set it helps me to hear when people are to the left of me but when many people are speaking it seems like my brain cant process It and all I hear is wa waa wwwaaa wwaa. It is really hard to function in a large crowd so I avoid it for the most part other than that I smile and nod my head like I know what the hell is going on .

Hearing loss was my first symptom. Three years ago I went to bed feeling normal and woke up next morning with significant hearing loss in my left ear. After a few months of being treated for congestion, I had a hearing test that showed 40% loss and that was the first suggestion that I might have Meniere's. Last July the test showed 50% loss and yesterday it was 60%.

It is scary cause no one knows how much they well loss and when, it is a scary disease.

In the brochure I finally found at a Doctor's office on meniere's, it read that it is a "progressive disease leading to deafness"...It would be really interesting to ask how many on here are deaf now and do our own survey? Obviously, it's very traumatizing waking up one day 'deaf". I noticed mine as soon as I went to the bathroom as I couldn't hear the toilet flush nor the water run in the faucet! U'd be surprised at how much a difference those little things we take for granted mean...But one just has to accept the "things one can't change" or else U'll just end up more stressed and sick:(
PS would be cool if like on Facebook, we had like buttons after our comments on here:)

Thanks. But I do not do facebook. Sorry. I like what you said.