Thank you so much - what a help! I had cancer of the nasopharynx years ago and now I'm older my ears have decided to play up but this has helped me enormously.
Maybe I am a special case. I woke up and noticed a muffled hearing and not hearing well in my left ear. I googled and found Sudden deafness etc. Also found the hum test. I heard the humming slightly louder in my effected ear so I was "happy" about that. But I still went to the doctors the same day, they saw no wax, water behind eardrum etc. Visited Ear nose throat specialist the next day after getting an emergency appointment. After hearing test and doctor test Sudden deafness was indeed the condition I had. And again, I heard the humming more in my effected ear, and I still hear it clearly as in my right healthy ear. HOWEVER, when they tried the tuning fork placed in the middle of my forehead I heard it only on my right healthy ear, i heard nothing at all on my left. That made Sudden deafness even more clear. So, even if you hear the humming well, visit doctors fast to rule out earwax, fluid etc. If nothing is found visit emergency ENT. I am on day8 since waking up with sudden deafness, on prednisolone 4 more days. Hoping to regain some more hearing.
Thank you so much for making this video! After having a cold and falling ill for a few days I noticed that my left ear felt slightly muffled. Thought it's probably nothing and went on with the day. Later I googled it and found out about "Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SSHL)" which scared the heck out of me. I did the hum test and to my relief i hear the hum properly in my left ear no problems. But definitely now I'll visit the ent asap.
I am glad it helped. Especially in this day and age of difficulty getting seen in an office, it becomes increasingly important to determine what is urgent and what can wait.
That’s what I was told when I called my ENT Doctor’s office after I lost hearing in one ear. They asked me to hum, and I can hear it with my affected ear. What a relieve!
Thanks, I was freaking out because my left ear's hearing is muffled (can hear some but not fully), did the hum test and I heard it louder from there so it's fine-ish (unless I got the instructions wrong and have Sudden Hearing Loss or smth, which would suck ass with capital A, S and S.
@@mikkelrolsson It took another 1 week and my hearing (right ear) came back to around 70%- 80%. The ear was full of fluid as it turned out. So all in all, it was about a 2 week experience. As more time passed my hearing has recovered to around 90% of what it was before the infection. I do a lot computer gaming with a headset on, so I can really tell small differences as they appear. My healthy left ear is now slightly more dominate
What if you hear it the same? I can’t really differentiate which one I hear louder? It almost sounds the same to me 🤷🏻♂️ I’ve been dealing with this pressure and low pitched ringing sensation for almost 2 months now right after being sick with a bad head cold and congestion for like 7 days ATLEAST and then one morning I woke up and noticed my left ear just felt like pressure and maybe fullness? And this ringing sensation but not high pitched… the fullness never got to where I couldn’t hear tho, I can actually hear out of my ear, probably just as good as my right honestly… I can play the lowest volumes possible on my headphones of somebody talking or whatever and still hear it in my left ear (affected ear) the same as my right? Although my right ear is may be slightly clearer tho, I can talk on the phone fine in my left ear and everything, like I said I can pick up very low sounds just as good as my right ear… I’ve been treated for middle ear fluid and have taken medicine and stuff, I’ve taken 2 different antibiotics because twice they thought I had a mild infection… I’ve never experienced serious symptoms of an ear infection tho, like fever, vertigo, discharge, swelling, pain in or around my ear, my eardrum is still intact no perforation… the only symptoms I’ve experienced is like I said, the irritation pressure ringing sensation and they come and go… like early on I would notice when the ringing died down or went away, my ear would be sensitive to certain sounds and it would feel like my eardrum would vibrate or flutter or something? I haven’t really noticed that anymore tho… it’s been more on a schedule now, like at night it seems to ease up but then when I wake up it will kind of amp up again… best way to describe it just feels like my ear is irritated and I’m hearing the sound from that? That pressure… I’ve been told I’m just full of fluid, that I have fluid in my right ear as well but more in my left and that’s the one that’s been bothering me, my right ear feels perfectly fine 🤷🏻♂️I do have an appointment with an ENT in a couple weeks, just was kind of wanting to get somebody’s opinion.
@@vonklinkenhoffn1 well turns out I have mild low frequency hearing loss in my left ear. Found out Jan of 2023 after taking a thorough hearing test that it wasn’t fluid, wasn’t infection, none of that, nothing conducive. After being treated for fluid and infection for an entire month at a walk in clinic smh the way I was told these urgent care clinics and practitioners aren’t trained on ears and don’t really know what they’re looking for so it’s easy for them to misdiagnose and confuse hearing loss symptoms with in ear infections so they just prescribe you decongestants, z pak steroids and maybe antibiotics and send you on your way. I tell anybody from now on if you have ear issues go see an audiologist, stay away from clinics they don’t know shit bout ears and you have a very small window to get treated for hearing loss so go take a hearing test and let the audiologist decide cuz they can schedule an emergency ent visit since hearing loss is considered an emergency situation. But so I’m like over a year now since all of that and everything has mellowed a lot, symptoms have stabilized, haven’t dealt with pressure or ringing or any of that in a LONG TIME pretty much after I got off the high dose steroids is when my symptoms started getting better. I dealt with some weird things like noise sensitivity and some of the pressure and ringing sensations for a couple of months afterwards but eventually all of that mellowed out and I haven’t dealt with that in a while so.
My ears are blocked from a plane ride, then i popped it or so i thought, and wore head phones in the car to listen to some music. Now my right ear feels clogged but my humming sounds the same in both ears. What do you think this is doc?
same. It feels like the sound is kinda muffled. But I still hear same frequencies in both ears and in hearing tests with noise I do just fine. No tests indicated hearing loss, but for some reason my right ear just kinda sounds more...muffled/bass boosted/idk how to describe it properly
You do not need to close off your ear. Just hum, probably best if you hum in a low pitch and in a high pitch. If you hear the humming louder in the "problem" ear when you hum, it isn't an emergency. However, if you hear your humming softer, or not at all, in the problem ear, you should see a doctor quickly
Doesn't seem like I can hear my humming at all in my right ear. Woke up yesterday morning with a lot of pressure, no pain, and no sound. Put headphones in and nothing. Weird.
SSHL, sudden sensoineural hearing loss. They gave me steroids for a while and hearing came back. Not the same, but good. Big rooms are strange. Several times during the week my ear mutes and a tone takes the place of regular hearing. Kind of weird but not so bad that I have gone back to the Dr.
@@MacDaddy406 Thank you, I’m in the same boat. All ENT in my area have 3 month wait. So went to an Urgent Care and got drops, but so far nothing. I do have a white noise going on 24/7. But i just deal with it.
@@txmade4371 I went to two doctors first. Both said ear infection. 🙄 Went to actual ENT Dr. and he was surprised two different dr.s thought it was an ear infection. Steroids or injection in ear was the only way to clear it up. I had to have my family dr make me an appt with ENT. I called them as well, several times.
Thank you so much - what a help! I had cancer of the nasopharynx years ago and now I'm older my ears have decided to play up but this has helped me enormously.
Maybe I am a special case.
I woke up and noticed a muffled hearing and not hearing well in my left ear.
I googled and found Sudden deafness etc. Also found the hum test.
I heard the humming slightly louder in my effected ear so I was "happy" about that.
But I still went to the doctors the same day, they saw no wax, water behind eardrum etc.
Visited Ear nose throat specialist the next day after getting an emergency appointment.
After hearing test and doctor test Sudden deafness was indeed the condition I had.
And again, I heard the humming more in my effected ear, and I still hear it clearly as in my right healthy ear.
HOWEVER, when they tried the tuning fork placed in the middle of my forehead I heard it only on my right healthy ear, i heard nothing at all on my left.
That made Sudden deafness even more clear.
So, even if you hear the humming well, visit doctors fast to rule out earwax, fluid etc. If nothing is found visit emergency ENT.
I am on day8 since waking up with sudden deafness, on prednisolone 4 more days. Hoping to regain some more hearing.
Did it ever help? :(
Hi are you better?😊
@@briangonzalez5360 I got better. I did the hum test and could hear it on the affected side okay. Certainly try the hum test
Is your hearing back?
@@grandtheftauto1233how is your hearing now?
Thank you so much for making this video! After having a cold and falling ill for a few days I noticed that my left ear felt slightly muffled. Thought it's probably nothing and went on with the day.
Later I googled it and found out about "Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SSHL)" which scared the heck out of me. I did the hum test and to my relief i hear the hum properly in my left ear no problems. But definitely now I'll visit the ent asap.
I am glad it helped. Especially in this day and age of difficulty getting seen in an office, it becomes increasingly important to determine what is urgent and what can wait.
@@markyantamd5338 Totally agree
I dont understand that test too, I hear my humming but I don't know from which ear I am hearing it.
Right lol
then you are hearing it equally from both the ears
Thanks man
That’s what I was told when I called my ENT Doctor’s office after I lost hearing in one ear. They asked me to hum, and I can hear it with my affected ear. What a relieve!
Thanks, I was freaking out because my left ear's hearing is muffled (can hear some but not fully), did the hum test and I heard it louder from there so it's fine-ish (unless I got the instructions wrong and have Sudden Hearing Loss or smth, which would suck ass with capital A, S and S.
Arse not ass - leave the donkey alone!
I hear the hum but less than in the other ear...is it an emergency?
Just finished the hum test and my affected ear failed horribly. It’s been like this for 1 week. I have partial hearing. Mild tinnitus is present.
Same here I’m freaking out
Same lol
@@MariaPerez-ho6wt did it work out ok?
Update???
@@mikkelrolsson It took another 1 week and my hearing (right ear) came back to around 70%- 80%. The ear was full of fluid as it turned out. So all in all, it was about a 2 week experience.
As more time passed my hearing has recovered to around 90% of what it was before the infection. I do a lot computer gaming with a headset on, so I can really tell small differences as they appear. My healthy left ear is now slightly more dominate
I don’t understand this test. Someone help me
What if you hear it the same? I can’t really differentiate which one I hear louder? It almost sounds the same to me 🤷🏻♂️ I’ve been dealing with this pressure and low pitched ringing sensation for almost 2 months now right after being sick with a bad head cold and congestion for like 7 days ATLEAST and then one morning I woke up and noticed my left ear just felt like pressure and maybe fullness? And this ringing sensation but not high pitched… the fullness never got to where I couldn’t hear tho, I can actually hear out of my ear, probably just as good as my right honestly… I can play the lowest volumes possible on my headphones of somebody talking or whatever and still hear it in my left ear (affected ear) the same as my right? Although my right ear is may be slightly clearer tho, I can talk on the phone fine in my left ear and everything, like I said I can pick up very low sounds just as good as my right ear… I’ve been treated for middle ear fluid and have taken medicine and stuff, I’ve taken 2 different antibiotics because twice they thought I had a mild infection… I’ve never experienced serious symptoms of an ear infection tho, like fever, vertigo, discharge, swelling, pain in or around my ear, my eardrum is still intact no perforation… the only symptoms I’ve experienced is like I said, the irritation pressure ringing sensation and they come and go… like early on I would notice when the ringing died down or went away, my ear would be sensitive to certain sounds and it would feel like my eardrum would vibrate or flutter or something? I haven’t really noticed that anymore tho… it’s been more on a schedule now, like at night it seems to ease up but then when I wake up it will kind of amp up again… best way to describe it just feels like my ear is irritated and I’m hearing the sound from that? That pressure… I’ve been told I’m just full of fluid, that I have fluid in my right ear as well but more in my left and that’s the one that’s been bothering me, my right ear feels perfectly fine 🤷🏻♂️I do have an appointment with an ENT in a couple weeks, just was kind of wanting to get somebody’s opinion.
The same is happening to me
Same. Did you ever find out what this is?
@@vonklinkenhoffn1 well turns out I have mild low frequency hearing loss in my left ear. Found out Jan of 2023 after taking a thorough hearing test that it wasn’t fluid, wasn’t infection, none of that, nothing conducive. After being treated for fluid and infection for an entire month at a walk in clinic smh the way I was told these urgent care clinics and practitioners aren’t trained on ears and don’t really know what they’re looking for so it’s easy for them to misdiagnose and confuse hearing loss symptoms with in ear infections so they just prescribe you decongestants, z pak steroids and maybe antibiotics and send you on your way. I tell anybody from now on if you have ear issues go see an audiologist, stay away from clinics they don’t know shit bout ears and you have a very small window to get treated for hearing loss so go take a hearing test and let the audiologist decide cuz they can schedule an emergency ent visit since hearing loss is considered an emergency situation.
But so I’m like over a year now since all of that and everything has mellowed a lot, symptoms have stabilized, haven’t dealt with pressure or ringing or any of that in a LONG TIME pretty much after I got off the high dose steroids is when my symptoms started getting better. I dealt with some weird things like noise sensitivity and some of the pressure and ringing sensations for a couple of months afterwards but eventually all of that mellowed out and I haven’t dealt with that in a while so.
what happens if it sounds just as loud in both ears
I put a q tip in my ear because ear wasnt feeling right and it made worse and i cant hear the humming in my right, what should i do
Same there are things that you can buy at a pharmacy
I hear it high when i cover my ear?
My ears are blocked from a plane ride, then i popped it or so i thought, and wore head phones in the car to listen to some music. Now my right ear feels clogged but my humming sounds the same in both ears. What do you think this is doc?
i can hear it in both ears? but theres a lot of pressure kinda like having water stuck but i cant hear myself louder. dont know what this means
same. It feels like the sound is kinda muffled. But I still hear same frequencies in both ears and in hearing tests with noise I do just fine. No tests indicated hearing loss, but for some reason my right ear just kinda sounds more...muffled/bass boosted/idk how to describe it properly
When I put my left hand on my left ear and say happy birthday I can hear over my covered left ear is that good or bad
I’m confused, do I close my ears during the test or keep them open?
You do not need to close off your ear. Just hum, probably best if you hum in a low pitch and in a high pitch. If you hear the humming louder in the "problem" ear when you hum, it isn't an emergency. However, if you hear your humming softer, or not at all, in the problem ear, you should see a doctor quickly
I can’t tell the difference
What?!.....I can't hear you!!!
I wish i saw this on saturday
Ive been freaking out
Turns out i have swelling in the canal.
Doesn't seem like I can hear my humming at all in my right ear. Woke up yesterday morning with a lot of pressure, no pain, and no sound. Put headphones in and nothing. Weird.
How are you now?…
SSHL, sudden sensoineural hearing loss. They gave me steroids for a while and hearing came back. Not the same, but good. Big rooms are strange. Several times during the week my ear mutes and a tone takes the place of regular hearing. Kind of weird but not so bad that I have gone back to the Dr.
@@MacDaddy406 Thank you, I’m in the same boat. All ENT in my area have 3 month wait. So went to an Urgent Care and got drops, but so far nothing. I do have a white noise going on 24/7. But i just deal with it.
@@txmade4371 I went to two doctors first. Both said ear infection. 🙄 Went to actual ENT Dr. and he was surprised two different dr.s thought it was an ear infection. Steroids or injection in ear was the only way to clear it up.
I had to have my family dr make me an appt with ENT. I called them as well, several times.