Thursday, February 7, 2013

deterioration


I suppose the natural course of the disease is going to have it's way.    My tinnitus has been bad for a while. Last week, I started having some mild vertigo symptoms.  I got in to see Dr Stewart locally for a steroid injection but did not have the improvement in symptoms that I had with previous injections.   I can tell that my hearing is worse lately.  I'm playing with the adjustments on my HA more.  Might be time to go in to have them adjusted again.
Still have some very mild vertigo symptoms.  If I turn my head, sometimes it keeps turning for a second.  Never had it so bad that I had nausea or was incapacitated.  What is really annoying is the ringing.  the constant ringing.  I think if that went away, I would hear better.  It really is the volume of ringing that keeps me from hearing things under that volume.
Hearing test this week.  It's been almost a year since the last one.   Fearful of what it will show.

Stable?


Had the audi and dr visit today.   The diagram is pretty much the same as a year ago-within 5db.  Discussed with Dr Stewart that the vertigo symptoms I was having led me to call for an injection and those are better.  The tinnitus is constant and fluctuates in volume.  The ringing is the worst hindrance to hearing.  When it is loud, I have trouble hearing speech under it.  
So, things seem to be stable objectively.  Dr did restate that the long term course of this disease is continued hearing loss and they have no way to stop that.   Oh well.   At least, it's not cancer.