It happens to me...I've actually never mentioned it to my doctor. It seems to be pretty transitory. I know I've had hearing loss in my left ear due to an attack. -Jen

glad im fully deaf and have been since birth.... i have no problem with hearing the noise or having waking up hearing the mowing at 6 am in the morning......

I have also had the intermitant hearing loss, usually for only a short time like minutes or so. I have also had hypersensitivity with my hearing. The slightest sound especially in certain pitches causes pain and light flashes in my eyes that can radiate down my arms! I hate it when that happens. Also there have been occurances where it seems my hearing gets "depressed" or semi muted kind of like how you hear after a VERY loud noise like a gun shot.

GE

WHAT you say?


I woke up 10/14/1996 'deaf' in my left ear. Not quite dead deaf, but like someone was holding 20 pillows over my ear.

We found the trigger though, it was something called "Lifestyles Extra" or something like that, some wonderful health elixir that my boss was hawking. In his infinite greed, he knew I lost my hear and wanted me to hawk a bottle on my chiro.

She had the idea to A-K test me and said that that was what must have triggered the attack. Took 3 weeks for my hearing to come back and I finished the bottle 2 weeks prior to that.

It's a communication problem.. the ear and all in it may be ok, but something gets lost in the translation ;)

If it was a triggered reaction, find the cause and STOP it. If you already stopped it, then it'll take 2-3 weeks to work it's way out, less if you have a really good chiropractor.

I HAD SOME HEARING LOSS IN MY RIGHT EAR THAT LASTED A COUPLE OF WEEKS OR SO.SOMEONE TOLD ME TO TRY A CAP OF RUBBING ALCOHOL IN IT TO EVAPORATE ANY POSSIBLE WATER.PERSONNALY I BELIEVE IT WAS A FLU-LIKE SYMPTOM.

i experience it off and on all the time...sigh.. just like LarryLDN says..like someone has pillows over my ears.. i can still hear...just muffled...

epilepsy neuro says allegries...ms neuro says to see a ear,nose and throat specialist...
personally think they are both wrong...grin...
but alas i shall go for both tests just to prove them wrong and make someone pay attention... i know it can be a symptom of ms...and i also know it can be auditory seziures...so it is a matter of flipping a coin at this point...grin

hugs
heather

It's a Symptom of MS, in that Something is Triggering the MS into Action. SOMETHING is probably Causing that reaction, it's not a transient symptom, but a reaction.

jmho ;)

I got tinnitus (which is rare?) with my first attack in 96...the tinnitus nevere went away and now I am going to lose most of all of my hearing, but in most cases, I understand it's usually temprorary. Mine is nerve damage from near 15 years of increasing tinnitus. BOTH my eyes are bad this time (I am in severe relapse since Aug 2) and vision WITH glasses at 20/50 in both eyes. It is not optic neuritis tho contributed to the relapse since it came on so fast. I personally am hoping this 1000 mg of solumedrol will help since they expect there is swelling in cerabellum that may be causing pressure on the eyes somehow.
I wish you the best and put your faith in God.
Keep script for glasses up to date, pray and rest those eyes when they tire or suddenly blur worse. That does seem to help me somewhat.
SusanNC

Yep I can't hear (except fuzzy sound) out of my left ear. Doctors can't say it is MS for sure but I am young to have such a hearing loss and my brain has plaques so whose to know (and to tell you the truth, why does it matter)?

Larry