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Hearing in left ear is distorted?
A couple or few months ago, I woke up one day and the hearing in my left ear was weird. I noticed that my left ear heard things in a lower pitch, causing my hearing to be a little dissonant. I went to the doctor, but my doctor said my ear didn't have any earwax buildup. I also took a hearing test and the doctor said there were no problems, except for the fact that my left ear heard things in a lower pitch. My doctor said to wait a week, and if things didn't get better, he would send me somewhere else. After a week, my hearing in my left ear went back to normal. A couple of days ago, the hearing in my left hear became funky again! The best I can describe it is that I'm hearing things at a lower pitch again. I don't think it's a full octave lower, but probably a half step lower. I was testing my hearing by listening to music with some ear buds, and I noticed that the hearing in my left ear is a little softer than the right. I also noticed that some sounds/music/taking sounds robotic, like having the effect of speaking into a fan. For example, the person singing sounds MOSTLY normal (depends, some may sound robotic), but if the song has piano in its instrumental, the piano sounds robotic/distorted. I don't know if this helps, but I did another test by pushing the right and left earbuds into my ear, and by doing so to the left one, the music is mostly muffled. If I switch the right earbud into my left ear and push it, the music is not muffled. I currently don't have any sensitivity to loud sounds, nor do I experience a ringing/buzzing/whistling in my left ear. I don't experience nausea or dizziness either. I am not sick either; I don't have any allergies or sinus/congestion problems. I did a lot of searching but all I could find was hearing loss and tinnitus and such. I'm a seventeen year old female if that helps. Does anyone know what is wrong with my ear, or have suggestions on what I should do? I'm really scared that this may be something serious, or that I might lose the hearing in my left ear! :\
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I am not a doctor so I can't help you with why you are having a problem. What I can do is save you a trip back to your family doctor, unless you need a referral to see a specialist.
The doctor you need to see is an Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat specialist (ENT). I have had hearing test done in my family doctors office and they are not anything like the hearing test done in an ENT office. To start with they are done in a sound proof room and are much more in depth. The ENT is much better trained to examine the ear and inner ear than the family practitioner. The ENT will also, most likely, order a CT scan to look for soft tissue damage to the sinuses and inner ear. The ENT also has fiber optic cameras they can use to look at your sinuses.
As I said the ENT can do a much more thorough exam and make a more definitive evaluation of your hearing and sinuses. I just went through one and found out things I didn't know I had that my family doctor couldn't diagnose. Like a cleft palate the result of an auto accident.
My advice: Go see an ENT doctor and get a thorough exam to see if there is anything wrong with your hearing. Early detection could mean the difference with living with the condition or having it corrected.
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