Sudden & Permanent Hearing Loss -SSHL?

[Duke Dive Medicine]

Hi guys,

I am not a scuba diver and suffered from similar condition.

I was wondering if you are still going to swimming pools or going on very short dive swimming pool level dives or did you cut on everything water-related (I guess not ) ?

So I was normally swimming and it was all good.I have actually read you can use ear plugs both for swimming and diving which are used mostly by people who are prone to infection but which, I suppose, can help or nullify the effect of the pressure (I am actually going to learn to swim, so these are all first times for me).

What was your exact diagnosis?

Best regards,
DDM

 

[lux7]

Sudden hearing loss most likely, it's a little known condition anyway, so no doctors actually said much about chances of recovery and what I could and should not do.

Actually at the hospital they proposed me a surgery, which was crazy as you don't treat this condition with a surgery.
Hospitals here get money from surgeries, so the lingering doubt was they were peddling it around to get some funds, which is really sad.
I read around a (American) source explicitly denouncing a German hospital for treating SHL with surgery so I refused.

I have read anyway it would be wise to avoid scuba diving, though it didn't say anything on whether you could eventually do that with ear plugs, or do it on shallower swimming pool waters.