She started to get dizzy and unbalanced with tinnitus and fullness in right ear in late September 1997. First step to the family doctor. It was now late October, hearing test normal. ENT suggests maybe its Meniere's Syndrome, try taking some lypoflavinoids and call us if anything gets worse. Early November, hearing in right ear starts to rapidly diminish.
Hearing improves at start of prednisone but diminishes as dose goes down.
ENT then sends Debi for a CT scan which did not identify the AN . Through November hearing continued to decline, but responded to higher doses of prednisone. Every time the dose of prednisone was lowered, hearing declined. Then when restarting prednisone at a higher dose hearing improved but it never came back as good as it had been previously. We did our homework, and got another ENT who recommended an MRI which identified the AN on November 24th.