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musicmummy | 21:00 Mon 09th Nov 2009 | Health & Fitness
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how would you know if you had one x
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lol
I think you need to see a doctor to be sure, although I think it can heal.
1) recurring discharge from your ear.
2) impaired hearing.
3)Symptomless.....picked up on routine examination.

One or all of the above.

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up till a few years ago i had very acute hearing, a few times while asleep i have been awoken by a tremendous noise in the efected ear very sililar to a door banging very loudly. I then developed tinnitus in that ear, and although i had it liiked at by the nurse at the surgery she said i had an ear infection, prob caused by wearing ear plugs when asleep as i worked nightshift at that time. I was given atibiotics but still have the tinnitus. Before any of this happend i was always very badly affected while flying, as if someone was stabbing me in that same ear on take off and landing .K ,x
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Squad can you help ?
music....your last post paints a quite different picture.

If the tinnitus is in the same ear as the deafness, then you need to see an ENT surgeon to exclude the presence of an Acoustic Neuroma...............nothing at all to do with malignancy, probably isn't, but does need excluding....MRI scan and audiological tests.

See your GP.
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thanks sqad, looked on the nhs website at the symptoms and ive got 4 out of the seven. will make a docs appointment thanks K. x

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