hi,
I read somewhere that you can have hearing loss from MS. I have a ringing most of the time....but this has happened to me, and the neuro does not seem to think it is MS.

Recently, my left ear went very muffled, full feeling...then went to hearing nothing out of the left ear at all for a few minutes...then back to the full, muffled feeling.

Then the next day, the left ear continued to feel full, and hearing is muffled....but then everytime I talked, or someone else talks, I was hearing a very amplified high pitch echo in my left ear. Like a roaring....this has happened several different times. lasting a day or less each time.

No cold or sickness at all.

Currently, I am back to my okay hearing, with just the ringing.

Does this sound MS related to you?

Thanks

Eh?
Same thing happened to me last week but I'd heard that Copaxone could do this too...
No docs over easter (but it's clearing a bit now anyway)

Hearing loss in my left ear is what led to the MRI that first found my lesions. it remains the only definite symptom of MS that I have ever had for more than a few hours. Mine lasted 8 weeks before it started coming back and it took another 4-8 weeks to fully recover.

Hi Daisy,
I think it is MS related, a lesion in that area of the brain. Many MS sites says that.

I get that quick loss of hearing for a few minutes and hate it. Then mine goes back to just the ringing or hissing sound. That still is not normal.

I was checked by a ENT doctor and he said my hearing was normal. Duh! I hear distant sounds before voices. So I ask people to repeat themselves. That doctor said no hearing device will help.

That doesn't seem normal. But if you put their headset on, and get tested, you may appear to be normal. That is what happened to me. The guy was talking right into my head.

I have had it 24/7 since 1995. I just ignore it. It it can't be fixed or treated than I ignore it.

Then many normal people have this too. Maybe theirs is treatable. Mine isn't. My Neuro back then confirmed that.

So MS related or not, get a hearing test to be sure.

I can hear with both ears, I can hear the dog turn over in his sleep, but it's like the right ear doesn't process stuff correctly. I can sit at a table with others, they talk and and I'm like, What?" No hissing, no stuffiness, I heard you talk but what'd you say?? Teen DS is a mumbler but others understand him, me, never.

Hearing loss was part of a flair I had once. it came back once the flair was over.

I would tell your MD that you have spoken to several other patients that exeperience the same things, and hope that he doesnt give you the "stop looking at message boards, they will scare you to death" lecture.

If you feel he is being dimissive or treating you like you are just an anxious patient, it may be time to either have a talk with him, or move on.

Hi daisy.girl,

I agree that you should get this checked out. It might be due to MS and there might be nothing anybody can do about it, but it just might be something fixable.

Several times I've had fluid in my ear(s) that I didn't even know about--no cold, no symptoms except some weird hearing problems.

I have had steadily (but slowly) worsening hearing since about the time when I was diagnosed. I've been wearing hearing aids for hte last 5 years. They help but aren't perfect.

I have hearing loss in my left ear. I have the ringing and hissing in both ears nearly all the time.

My Dad had hearing loss in his left ear, too, and was told it was nerve damage. Hearing aids didn't help him, either.

I truly believe my Dad had MS but was never dx with it. He had too many other profound conditions and all his sx were just attributed to them. Looking back.....I really think he had MS among all the other things. Too many coincidental sx.