Conductive Hearing Loss: Can It Affect Regular Hearing Too?

[Hariz Nonis]

I'm going through Stapedial Myoclonus/Dysacusis in my right ear at the moment. A Weber Test revealed that my right ear is having conductive hearing loss. Attached is my hearing test results. My regular hearing on the right also seems to be "not so good". I recently found out that my right ear doesn't hear certain high pitched sounds as well as my left. I've never noticed this before having my current issue. So I think they might be related.

Can one's regular hearing be affected by conductive hearing loss?

 

[GregCA]

Can one's regular hearing be affected by conductive hearing loss?

Yes of course: your hearing is made of conductive + sensorineural components. Any of those affect the overall hearing.

 

[Drone Draper]

Exactly. People have had tinnitus that turned out to be nothing more than wax buildup.

 

[Hariz Nonis]

@GregCA @Drone Draper so I do have reason to believe my hearing will get better?

 

[Gman]

I'm going through Stapedial Myoclonus/Dysacusis in my right ear at the moment. A Weber Test revealed that my right ear is having conductive hearing loss. Attached is my hearing test results. My regular hearing on the right also seems to be "not so good". I recently found out that my right ear doesn't hear certain high pitched sounds as well as my left. I've never noticed this before having my current issue. So I think they might be related.

Can one's regular hearing be affected by conductive hearing loss?

Yes, but on the plus side it also means probably isn't lost hearing as such from a sensorioneural point of view. Your middle ear is just being lame. I had a similar experience when my tensor tympani would cramp up. It would leave me without much low end hearing in the affected ear and made things sound weird. Once it somehow decides to calm down and resolve itself, it should hopefully be ok. It took me almost a year and a half to mostly go into remission...

Exactly. People have had tinnitus that turned out to be nothing more than wax buildup.

I had wax build up for probably a long time (maybe years?) with no tinnitus. Until I decided to use some over the counter ear drops and a whole lot of misfortune as a result came my way.

 

[Drone Draper]

Hariz - once the conductive loss is resolved, one would assume so.

I had wax build up for probably a long time (maybe years?) with no tinnitus. Until I decided to use some over the counter ear drops and a whole lot of misfortune as a result came my way.

I've read a few wax horror stories here. Luckily, I have a great audiologist who uses curettes and a camera. If I ever need wax taken out, again, I know where to go. He even got a piece of clear/white silicone out from a plug I'd used that the ENT and GP completely missed.

 

[GregCA]

@GregCA @Drone Draper so I do have reason to believe my hearing will get better?

Conductive losses don't always get better: if it's wax, it can be removed, but if it's otosclerosis, it requires surgery. If it's something else, such as a perforated ear drum or some malformation of ossicles, who knows.

You need to find out the root cause for your conductive losses.