New audiologist

New doc had me test with office audi.  Routine.   Not impressed by her.   My take on the test is that I am bad off.  I had a lot of quiet on the left side.   MD tomorrow.

Steroid blast

It's been a week on the prednisone and I think there is some improvement. However slight and subjective. Tinnitus is slightly better (something I noticed is a fluctuation in the frequency of the ring-that's new). Vertigo has been controlled. Audio appt tomorrow and see the new doc in two days. I went on the new doc website, there was a contact us button and sent an email to my new Dr explaining my acute change. He wrote back the same day and got my initial appt moved up three weeks. Appreciate that.

Dr Hegarty

Desperate and scared that I am suffering more permanent damage to my hearing, I took a chance and called my old doc in CO. Surprisingly, he called me back personally. He was concerned that I might need a steroid injection in the ear but he agreed to fax an rx for prednisone. My own, unmeasured assessment of the hearing in my left ear is that it is at its worst. Constant, loud tinnitus and when I plug my right ear, I cannot hear any high freq. I'm really worried.

Instability

I've been following my diet well and drinking plenty of water and yet, I'm still having problems. I have had some brief episodes of motion sensitivity the last few weeks; mostly just a fleeting feeling of dizziness when I would change position. I always recovered in an instant. My tinnitus has been worse recently too; loud and high pitched. Today, I had a sudden onset of dizziness after turning my head. It lasted more than an instant and in fact, progressed to nausea. I sat at my desk for a few minutes but it wasn't passing so I took some meclizine. The med knocked me out for 30 minutes. My first ENT appt isn't for another two weeks. I hope I'm not losing ground w my hearing and vertigo.