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Grommets are typically used to drain fluid or wax trapped inside the ears. Read extensively about the surgery before going for it. I do not think it is going to fix hyperacusis. Actually, it could make it worse.

In a way doctors would be irresponsible if they performed surgeries that are not going to fix the underlying problem, the problem that originates hyperacusis or tinnitus. I guess they say the symptoms are not clinically relevant because there is not an objective way of testing to know where is...

One of the standard answers of ENTs after listing symptoms like those is that they are not "clinically relevant", that's why they are so obsessed with hearing loss. Well, now I do have hearing loss and you know what, they say the same, that is a minor loss really (I even have loss in low...

Being cautious is a good approach to this, and also trying to gather as much information about hyperacusis as you can. I am already a lost case, since I am losing my hearing, maybe I risked it too much. I can only hope that other people have a better outcome and can improve from hyperacusis...

For what I have read on Facebook, here and in other forums, there have been all kinds of outcomes and experiences with grommets, some of them made hyperacusis worse. I I wouldn't recommend that surgery to anyone.

Hi Japongus, I had read the opposite, that grommets may cause hyperacusis after they are removed. The brain may be increasing sound when grommets are in and once the eardrum closes after grommet removal the sound does rocket in volume. Actually, I read accounts by other hyperacusis sufferers...