Understanding Acoustic Neuromas
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- This video contains a visual explanation of acoustic neuromas, aimed at helping students of medicine and healthcare professionals prepare for exams.
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I've had the same symptoms for years and multiple doctors have told me that I'd have to live with it and never did tests to exclude the possibility of a Acoustic Neuroma. I felt very misunderstood because every doctor just told me that it must be because of loud music or something, while i ALWAYS wear hearing protection wherever I go that's loud because I'm trying very hard to retain the hearing that I have left, very frustrating to be treated that way. I've had this from that I was in my early twenties until now. It started out of the blue about ten years ago with a small reduction in hearing, and now I'm up to 82% hearing loss in my left ear. Only a few weeks ago a new doctor told me that he thinks I am suffering acoustic neuroma. Finally after all these years and many doctors he has arranged for a MRI two weeks ago and it seems that he was correct and that this is the reason of my hearing loss.
My tip to anyone is to keep hammering on the possibility of this neuroma being the potential cause of your hearing loss, especially when it's as progressive as my hearing loss was without any explanation where the damage is coming from. If there is no obvious reason why you are losing your hearing please tell the doctor that you want the possibility of an acoustic neuroma to be verified. I'm pretty much deaf now and it could have been prevented by better analysis of my situation.
I wish you guys all the best and I am hopeful about the treatment.
Did you have any type of tinnitus? That's the only reason that I went to my ENT. And because it was only on one side and only one ear was affected keyed him into the fact that it might be a neuroma so he sent me for an MRI. It turned out that I do have an acoustic neuroma but it is very small so I'm under observation for right now. So far I have had two MRIs within a 6-month period and it grew a tiny bit. The whole thing is about 13 mm which is about half of an inch and the part that they are concerned about a grew from 6 mm to 7 mm. So it went from one quarter of an inch to a little bit over 1/4 of an inch. So that's not very much but my symptoms have gotten worse and that doesn't necessarily go with the size of the tumor. So I've made an appointment to see a neurologist because I'm having concentration problems and daily headaches and vision problems along with my balance problems and dizzy spells. I've also lost about half of my hearing due to speech recognition. So on that ear I'll only hear the beginning of the word and the rest of it will get lost. That is what my most recent audiogram revealed and because of that I made an appointment to see my audiologist to get fitted for hearing aid to see if it's the right thing for me to help me to hear better
hi,i have tinnitus also ang dizziness but i feel it only when i go to bed or lying down. the dr said i need to do mri to rule out acoustic neuroma
@@Reignbraysonmogol is your tinnitus only in one ear?
yes.. its getting worse when im lying down with dizziness.
@@Reignbraysonmogol you definitely need to get an MRI done to rule out whether or not it is a neuroma and to see what size it is if it is a neuroma
Upcoming surgery to remove mine. Not going to say I’m not nervous but feel blessed to have a good surgeon. For sure not something I ever expected but feeling positive and just putting my faith in my surgeons🙏🏼
im 26 and in august last year started having tinnitus, dizziness and vertigo which progressively got worse over time and i am now losing my hearing in my right side! just had an mri scan to rule out acoustic neuroma hoping for good news!!
You seem young for an acoustic neuroma because it's typically diagnosed between the ages of 40 to 60 but that doesn't mean that you don't have it. So reading your statement and your symptoms it seems most likely that you do have it so I hope that you have a good neurosurgeon and that he knows how to treat it and that he doesn't rush you into having surgery if you don't necessarily need it. I was recently diagnosed this year although I was suffering from tinnitus since November of last year and I was able to see an ENT doctor in February and I had my first MRI in April and I got my diagnosis in May and I just had my second MRI in October and was told that I don't need another MRI until next year. I'm 57 years old. My neurosurgeon is not a very good one and he gave me the wrong information and that is why I seeked out a video to prove that he was wrong because he said that it was residing inside of a bone inside of my ear which is incorrect because it is within the brain on top of a nerve like you saw in the video. So it's best to be your own advocate and if the doctor gives you incorrect information then it's on you to seek a better doctor and to get the best information necessary in order to save your own health. I wish you the best of luck and hope that you don't have it but if you do know that it's not really anything to worry about unless it's a very large size and then you would need to have it removed especially if it's pressing on the brain stem
Any update? I’m 25 and going through the same thing. Waiting for an appointment for my MRI x
@@francescamann268 Hi, all clear didnt have an acoustic neuroma confirmed meniers disease though
hi were the same symptoms and i need an appointment for mri. did the dr gabe you medicine for menieres disease?
@@kjos7427thank god. But do you have pulsatile tinnitus??
Thank you 🙏 It really helps to simplify difficult diseases studying
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Great posts. I have all the symptoms and have been having hearing checks, though no one mentioned the possibility of this to me. I'm going back to the specialist.
Hope it all works out
Acoustic Neuroma has happened to me in my right ear, so I had a Gamma Knife radiation treatment costing $28,000 for one session, but it was paid by the government. I hope the tumor will now stop growing, but I will never hear again in my right ear and that awful feeling of FULLNESS in the ear never goes away.
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Informative. Thank you
thank you so much ^-^
I've had mine for 2 yrs. I'm dizzy every single day. Just slight hearing loss. Had to quit teaching my aerobics and flash mob dance group and driving. I do not want radiation or surgery. The results could be worse than how I feel now. Using alternative methods.
Hello what are the alternative methods you are using and have any of it helped?
Holistic healer with tinctures. Organic food, sauna, hyperbaric chamber. Slow process, but tiny results. Still being positive.
good explanation 🙏
Excellent content
Thanks!
Amazing video , amazing explanation , braaaaaa
Thanks!
I am acoustic neuroma patient thank s for post.
Kya aapne surjury karaliya koi side effect to nhi hua plz tel me
Beautiful,🥳
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Did anyone have weird itchy feelings on the side of the face that had the neuroma? I went to dermatologist approx 2 yrs ago & doc said I had no skin conditions & referred me to a neurologist- but I didn't follow through with an appt even though I still have the itchy face. Yesterday I saw an audiologist due to my hearing not so good now & was advised I have asymmetric hearing loss & am scheduled to have an MRI to check for tumor. I'm wondering now if that itchy feeling could be caused by a tumor?
Hopefully not. Perhaps see the symptoms of a facial nerve schwannoma - closely related to but different than the acoustic neuroma. Only an MRI can really narrow things down without being invasive. Best of luck.
So I have symptoms of sharp headache pain, as well as dizziness or light headedness when I stand up. My ear also feel like it won't stay unpopped. Went to an ENT Wednesday and we also did a hearing test. Right ear is fine, left ear is hearing at least 30 decibel lower that the normal. The graph you made looks like that. So the Dr wants me to get an MRI which I'm getting the 21st and he put me on a 2 week period of prednisone to rule out a vital infection of the inner ear.
What did your MRI show?
@@yashkothari7540 The MRI showed no tumor thankfully. So the dizziness and headaches subsided as I ket the prednisone do its work and ir did. Unfortunately the hearing in my left ear won't be 100%.
Did you Dr exclude Meniere's disease?
@@lucyzhou4446 no I didn't. I was just reading on what causes Meniere's Disease and the symtpoms
He didn't bring it up
Ok, so, here is my problem: I am in my 30, pretty close relationship with music for 15 years. For about quite some time I have noticed strange vibrating feeling in my right ear when a low frequency emerges from somewhere, for example: a car passes, my home windows vibrate a lil bit and that sub frequency get my right ear like twisting itself, vibrating in relatively long intervals. A month ago tinnitus came, its only on the right side. The sound is constant, but i noticed sometimes its pulsating, arhythmically, fading, sometimes I cant hear it... I havent see a doc yet, but i would like to know if you have any suggestion of what it might be
Sorry you’re dealing with that. Did you ever have a really intense flu or mild head injury? Kinda sounds like an inner ear issue. But I’m no expert. Might be worth asking an ENT.
I have the same problem, doc thinks ETD.
Sorry to hear this dude, I was recently diagnosed with bilateral SCDS after 15 years of absolute misery, I hope you get your answers ✌️➕❤️⭐️🌟✨
what was the results? I am having some weird pulsating going on in my ear, its sore and my jaw is moving/shifting slightly. was it AN?
I had that in 2021 when i was age of 11.. I didint go to the hospital yet... But good part is my tumor rings low noises and last 30 seconds.
I was diagnosed with of acoustic neuroma yesterday
Hang in there, learn as much as you can about it. I am 1 week post op from having mine removed by a team of doctors at Loyola in Chicago. Great team
This looks like something my neurosurgeon needs to look at because he told me something very stupid and maybe he was trying to dumb it down for me or something but he told me that my tumor is within a bone inside of my ear and I looked at him like he was crazy because then why am I seeing a neurologist if it's not within my brain which they told me the first time? I know that his statement is wrong because of the fact that I was shown the MRI when it was done the first time and I've done enough of my own research to know that the tumor resides within the brain on top of a nerve so why would he tell me that it's within the ear inside of a bone when that's not the truth? I don't like people who lie and I can't trust people who lie. I will not mention this doctor's name but I will be getting a second opinion and also I will be asking my ENT when I go to get my audiogram for more information and for his recommendation on another neurosurgeon. My first symptom was actually tinnitus and my tinnitus sounds like a rushing water sound sort of like what you hear inside of a seashell and it's 24/7 and it never goes away. My tumor has grown a tiny bit over a 6-month period of time and I was having some symptoms like dizziness and balance problems and vision problems and concentration problems and my doctor poo pooed everything like there was no significance to any of it and that's another reason why I need to get a second opinion. So what I'm trying to say is you have to be your own advocate and you have to be on top of your medical problems and know what you're doing with and know that when your doctor lies to you that's a major red flag and that means you need to get a second opinion
Have all these symptoms. But they started with the flu
Mine are same but I just have headache and tinnitus. How're you now?
Please Respond to this. I had a vaping habit and vaping causes hearing loss apparently. I googled it. I never had dizziness but if I sit down for 2-3 hours then just a little iron deficiency so feel a little off for a second or two but that’s not common in me. That’s if I sat down and focused for too long. No dizziness, no vertigo, no vomiting, no infections but I did hear a sudden pop in my left ear last Monday and ear became full then buzzy. Slight buzzy noise and now I’m taking steroids meds and injection in the ear drum. MRI next week