I have sensorineural hearing loss with hearing impairment. Do I need hearing aid?

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Hearing in all of us is defined by a conductive component and sensorineural component. Anything to do with the nerve and transmission of nerve impulses is termed sensorineural and in most cases the damage is irreversible. Anything interfering with the conduction of sound is considered to be conductive and there could be plenty of listed reasons from wax to fixed ossicles. Now coming to your case, if you have been priorly diagnosed with a sensorineural hearing loss (snhl) via means of pure tone audiometry and in addition if your middle ear compartment and cleft are accumulated with fluid probably due to eustachian tube catarrh the improvement in hearing after insertion of tubes is going to be somewhere between 20 to 30 % and not more, considering there is a probable moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss present. Hearing aids are definitely going to help when a sensorineural component is moderately or severely involved. In profound snhl, the hearing aids are not much of a benefit and in such a case cochlear implants are the devices of choice. I hope this helps.

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Yes, there is extensive research going on sudden sensorineural hearing loss its syndromic associations, genetics, epigenetics etc. As far as the treatment is concerned, there is to date no single drug that has been proven to be beneficial for tinnitus. The exact reason behind this is that we are still not sure what is the precise reason behind the tinnitus. Numerous theories have been put forth to ascertain different causes and it's really difficult to pinpoint what has been the real cause for the symptoms in one particular patient. This is the reason why in most institutions, it becomes necessary to give a blanket treatment for each patient as early treatment is the key to optimum response. I am not sure how much time it will take for the ideal perfect drug to come into the market. It could be any ones guess.

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