Ear Trouble

[midagetrolop]

All of a sudden last night I got this sort of buzzing whooshing in my left ear - I still have it now, anyone any ideas it's driving me mad, I have no pain just echoy and very strange and a little deaf. Please help anyone.

[dannyk13]

Sounds like you are hearing the blood rushing through the veins.I think Sqad is about and he will know.

[Baldric]

Just a thought

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Tinnitus/Pages/Introduction.aspx

[anneasquith]

Wax

[Sqad]

Can't help with that description.

Go to A&E.

[ummmm]

A&E? Really?

[Sqad]

That's what i said.

[midagetrolop]

Yes I do have mild tinnitus, but this is not tinnitus it is not the same, it feels as though something is blocking my ear, like having earplugs, my tinnitus does not feel like this. Thanks.

[EcclesCake]

Sqad, what is the emergency that warrants a visit to A&E?

[Sqad]

Sudden deafness is a medical emergency particularly when it is associated with tinnitus. Bar far, the commonest cause is wax or something similar, but occasionally the nerve is damaged either by blood clot or virus infection and the only hope of resolution is by early diagnosis.

Unfortunately, the training of doctors in ENT in the UK is appalling and sudden deafness is not taken seriously.......not only in the UK.

In these uncommon cases of nerve deafness, early diagnosis and treatment is paramount if the hearing is to be maintained.

[ummmm]

Thanks for the clarification even though you were answering Eccles and being sarky to me...

[Samuraisan]

I don't think Sqad was being sarky. He was giving his advice as requested.