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Does anyone else's hearing in their HA ear go down when they're full of a cold? Mine does and it's pretty annoying. Why does your hearing go down when you have a cold. i can barely talk properly due to my cold
 
Your hearing probably lessens when you have a cold because your eustachian tubes are blocked so you are adding a conductive loss to your existing sensorineural loss.

But I am not a doctor. Maybe DeafDoc will show up and give you a better answer.
 
Oh right that sounds right maybe. I dont know
 
Bottesini said:
Your hearing probably lessens when you have a cold because your eustachian tubes are blocked so you are adding a conductive loss to your existing sensorineural loss.

But I am not a doctor. Maybe DeafDoc will show up and give you a better answer.
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True! Even my hubby loses some hearing when he has a cold! Ears fill up with fluids.

That is why many children end up with a secondary infection. (ear infection) after they have been sick with a cold.
 
Interesting...I feel that when I get colds, I get too sensitive with hearing stuff so I always had to turn them all the way down or they're off. Everything sounded so loud. Weird.
 
It turned out to be really bad hayfever not a cold, but it still effected my HA ear for a day or two
 
I have bad hayfever this time after many years of mild hay fever..... It's horrible... at first i thought i had cold but it's not, damn... means we face long few months of sneezing, runny nose, itchy nose.... I use vaseline around my nostrils to trap most of dust/pollen.. it does help also it helps the skin as we would have been rubbing/blowing our nose with tissues making it abit sore.

Funny enough my hayfever is bad this year and i am not at stables any more as my horse had passed away few months ago. Whereas many years i had my horse i rarely get hayfever and i worked with hay etc!! strange isn't it??
 
DeafLissa90 said:
Does anyone else's hearing in their HA ear go down when they're full of a cold? Mine does and it's pretty annoying. Why does your hearing go down when you have a cold. i can barely talk properly due to my cold
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Yeah - mine does it all the time... but not when I have hayfever strangely enough. It's quite bad this year cos of the *blimming* weather fluctuations of late, causing more plants/flowers to bloom more than normal. As overthepond says - riding horses seems to lessen the impact of Hayfever - it's really weird init lol.

Whenever I have a cold, my eustachian tubes get blocked up and reduces the conductiveness of the ear - hence lowered hearing. Also colds tends to knock me for 6 so I have to take time off work. Despite all the remedies to counteract this.

I had several bouts of serious secondary ear infections that affected my balance whenever I get a cold when I was younger. So when I see one coming, I stock up on ear drops but as of late, i've not needed to resort to ear drops :).

The ENT doctor has said that the CI will bypass all that so it should not affect my hearing.

Noticed that you have a CI and HA, do you find your CI stays the same when you have a cold? when it's different with HA?

It tends to affect those with sensi neural deafness more for some reason says by my ENT doctor. Couldn't remember the reason why.
 
Yes I am better now thanks!! My CI works fine but my HA doesnt, it just sounds a lot quieter
 
yeah, sometimes. but all we can do is wait for the cold to pass and for the ears to clear up. even with just allergies really acting up, my hearing will be all off.
 
Itis the same way for me when I am flying. I can't hear anything but noise while in flight.
 
my ears get stuffed up too. sometimes I try to pop it (you know, hold your nose and blow), but people tell me that's bad.
 
When you have a cold, it's not a good idea to wear your hearing aid because it makes it like a vaccuum for your ear...and that's not good. Otherwise you might get a bad ear infection.
 
yeah..I had a cold and wore my aid few yrs back..then I travelled on airplane..that lead to a VERY serious ear infection that made me really cry in pain..and meds for 3 mths..

hayfever made that worse , and cleaning my ear some helped too..ear cotton buds were my constant companion at my bag..LOL!

Since CI thank god these problems are reduced!
 
I hate colds too with HA, most of my problems is allergies which I take meds for to help. They just make a bad sound worse IMO
 
DeafLissa90 said:
Does anyone else's hearing in their HA ear go down when they're full of a cold? Mine does and it's pretty annoying. Why does your hearing go down when you have a cold. i can barely talk properly due to my cold
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I've had that happen to me when I still wore HAs. I dunno if it'll go down with my CI as I haven't gotten a bad cold yet after I got my CI.
 
DeafLissa90 said:
Does anyone else's hearing in their HA ear go down when they're full of a cold? Mine does and it's pretty annoying. Why does your hearing go down when you have a cold. i can barely talk properly due to my cold
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When I wore hearing aids, my hearing always used to drop when I had a cold or allergies.

Now that I have CIs, I don't really notice this taking place. Then again, I haven't had a bad cold since I was implanted in 2004 and 2006.

This is only a guess, but I suspect the reason this happens is because fluid accumulates in the ear which in turn affects the Eustachian tubes and their ability to open and close.
 
Yeah HearAgain..also earmolds worsen the problem..that's why I wont wear an earmold with CI...
 
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