Re: Hopi Ear Candling
Originally Posted by
Zaphod
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I've just been talking to Mrs Zaphod again about her experiences and I'm not about to suggest that you have exactly the same symptoms, much less diagnosis - but there are similarities in what you're going through with Mrs Zaphod's experiences.
At first the GP put her worsening symptoms and her worries down to after-effects of pregnanacy (!) and it took years after then to see specialists & get dignosed.
Neither of us remembers exactly how many but we think at least 5 years though that could be wrong in either direction.
I know you said you've seen a specialist, presumably at a hospital audiology department.
But did you know that many Specsavers (and some Boots too) will do a free hearing test?
As well as a different source for recognition of your problems and possibly providing a little reassurance too, they will report whatever problems they find to your GP.
This could be a bit more help in getting to the root of your problem if your specialist hasn't given you a reasonable answer yet.
It might be worth a go.
Thank you Zaphod.
During February I got whisked away in an ambulance 3 times in all, with severe nausea and unable to balance. My ears felt like I was underwater.
I was so fed up (and worried) with waiting and waiting for help, that in the end I paid privately for a hearing test with a consultant at the hospital.
He told me at the time that I had a problem but that everything he could see with that little torch thing looked normal and
there was no wax at all.
It was when I was missing so many sounds during his test, that he acknowledged I had a problem and he thought it was deeper in, beyond my eardrum. So recommended an MRI scan, which I had a couple of weeks ago.
I had a pesky phone consultation last Thursday from an ENT chap, who was rather abrupt (and did his best not to allow me to ask questions), and all he said was there was nothing wrong!
I said to him that there obviously was, else I'd be able to hear! To which he replied there could be 20 - 30 reasons for it so he was referring me back to my GP - who sent me to them in the first place. So looks like I am back to square one and I am not happy at all.
I am now trying hard to get a copy of the hearing test result, as that was proof there is a problem.
As I paid for the test privately I think I am entitled to receive a written copy of the result, but so far, they have not co-operated.
I was, and still am, bloody furious!