Can hearing loss be associated with allergies?
You Just Hope …. That It Lasts asked:
I’ve been listening to music with headphones since I was 8. It’s a habit that i find hard to break, but with what has been going on these past few years, I’m getting myself to use headphones less and less. I can go a few days without using headphones, but surely not more than that unless I have to in cases where my headphones are broken. But anyways, for the past 2 days I’ve felt like my right ear was stuffy. I’ve tried cleaning it but it doesn’t help. For instance, if I cover my left ear and hum, i sense a louder sound in my head than if I’d cover my right ear. I just feel that feeling when you go in a high elevator or when you’re in an airplane and the feeling doesn’t go away after I swallow. I’m positive I don’t have swimmer’s ear. It’s happened to me a few times in recent years usually during this time of year, but it left after a few days. For the record, I do have coughing and a runny nose/congestion. It might be allergies since Spring is here.
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I’ve been listening to music with headphones since I was 8. It’s a habit that i find hard to break, but with what has been going on these past few years, I’m getting myself to use headphones less and less. I can go a few days without using headphones, but surely not more than that unless I have to in cases where my headphones are broken. But anyways, for the past 2 days I’ve felt like my right ear was stuffy. I’ve tried cleaning it but it doesn’t help. For instance, if I cover my left ear and hum, i sense a louder sound in my head than if I’d cover my right ear. I just feel that feeling when you go in a high elevator or when you’re in an airplane and the feeling doesn’t go away after I swallow. I’m positive I don’t have swimmer’s ear. It’s happened to me a few times in recent years usually during this time of year, but it left after a few days. For the record, I do have coughing and a runny nose/congestion. It might be allergies since Spring is here.
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May 4th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
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Wow, you basically asked the exact same question I was going to ask. i have horrible allergies too and we’re basically identical. I used headphones too almost daily. But I never but the music up too loud. The max on my MP3 is 20 and I never go past 7 or 8. I guess (hope) it’s only allergies. I have a runny nose, the back of my throat feels itchy and sore, my ears feel pressured sometimes. Sometimes when I try to hear what other people close to me say it sounds muffled. At other times, I can barely hear what I’m saying (the way you can hear yourself inside your head when you’re speaking out loud was almost gone). It comes and goes so I GUESS it’s not permanent. Anyway, I’m going to the doctor soon.
Aslo, if I cup my palm over my left ear and then pull to make the pressure in it pop, nothing happens. But if I do it on the right ear, it hurts. Maybe it’s infected or something.
May 5th, 2009 at 12:38 am
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Different Types Of Hearing Loss
Hearing loss can be categorized by where or what part of the auditory system is damaged. There are three basic types of hearing loss: conductive hearing loss, sensorineural hearing loss and mixed hearing loss.
Conductive Hearing Loss
Conductive hearing loss occurs when sound is not conducted efficiently through the outer ear canal to the eardrum and the tiny bones, or ossicles, of the middle ear. Conductive hearing loss usually involves a reduction in sound level, or the ability to hear faint sounds. This type of hearing loss can often be medically or surgically corrected.