Re: Strange hearing issue: Pitch perception in right ear shifted upward by 25 cents

On Jul 16, 11:50 pm, mookie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jay,
>
> I wouldn't jump to the neurological conclusion. I agree with others
> in that it sounds like there might have been some Eustachian Tube
> issues directly related to you cold and congestion. This will throw
> off the pressure in your middle ear space and can mess with your
> hearing quite a bit, especially if fluid builds behind the eardrum.
>
> Good place to start would be with an ENT, or rather an Otologist if
> you can find one. You should probably have a hearing test as well,
> considering the symptoms you describe as well as your history of noise
> exposure (with all the music stuff). If nothing else you can get a
> baseline now for your hearing, and also find out if there is anything
> medically wrong with your ears.
>
> Hope this helps--

I have had this same thing happen twice in the past 15 years or so,
and both times related to a bad cold/probable ear infection. Being a
musician, it was pretty difficult to deal with, to say the least! In
my case it took several weeks for all of the effects to disappear
completely (they did diminish very gradually), but they did with no
long term effects, except perhaps a bit more ringing in the ears in
general. Medically I have no idea what causes this, but the ENT I was
seeing said that it doesn't take much in the way of inflammation of
these small parts of the ear to change things in such a way. Just
have patience!