Hearing Distortion

[Jeff Tanner]

Ed,
Go see your Chiropractor and get off the antibiotics.  You will be 
amazed.  I was.
Jeff

On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 05:15 PM, Ed Sutton wrote:

> Dear List Friends, and Jim Ellis, especially-
>
> Jim, it's exactly as you describe, and it helps to have a name for it, 
> at least.
>
> I saw a doctor this afternoon, and am taking antibiotics, hoping it 
> will clear up
> by Monday.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Ed Sutton
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Ellis" <claviers@nxs.net>
> To: <ed440@mindspring.com>
> Cc: <caut@ptg.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 4:57 PM
> Subject: Hearing Distortion
>
>
>> Ed,
>>
>> I'm sending this directly to you, and copying it to the list.  What 
>> you are
>> experiencing is called "diplacusis", if I spelled it right.  Yes, I 
>> have
>> had that problem too, off and on at times in the past.  Now, it is
>> permanent, as of about three years ago.
>>
>> In your case, it seems associated with the cold.  Do see an ENT soon. 
>>  If
>> the earache persists, see a doctor NOW.  The diplacusis suggests that 
>> an
>> infection has gotten into the inner ear.  If it's a virus, your body 
>> will
>> fight it off.  If it's bacterial, you need an antibiotic NOW.  Don't 
>> mess
>> around with this.
>>
>> In my previous cases, the problem was associated with a cold, and 
>> soon went
>> away.  This last time, the one that's permanent, I just woke up one
>> morning, and there it was.  It is associated with a low-frequency 
>> humming
>> tinnitis, about 120 Hz, more or less, and the humming is at the 
>> center of
>> the subjective offset in pitch, left-to-right.  The pitch offset goes 
>> all
>> the way from about 80 Hz to 500 Hz, and A440 right ear sounds like G# 
>> left
>> ear - very annoying.
>>
>> I have been to some of the best ENT doctors in Tennessee, including
>> Vanderbilt in Nashville, and had MRI scans looking for tumors, and all
>> that.  Results = Negative.  It's neurological - inner ear - not 
>> middle or
>> outer ear.  I'm just stuck with it for the rest of my life, and I have
>> learned to put up with it.
>>
>> Our ears are much more than just biological microphones.  They are 
>> also
>> built-in spectrum analyzers.  When an infection or some injury gets 
>> to the
>> inner ear - the nerves, it throws the pitch perception off.  You may 
>> notice
>> that the offset is not the same over the whole range, but concentrated
>> around one particular pitch.
>>
>> By all means see an ENT doctor ASAP.  If you still have the earache, 
>> see a
>> doctor NOW, even if it means going to the E.R. on Thanksgiving day.  
>> Don't
>> mess around with this.  Nothing you can apply from the outside is 
>> going to
>> help very much.  Your ears are valuable to you.  Let me know how you 
>> do.
>>
>> Sincerely, Jim Ellis
>>
>>
>>
>
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