What are the characteristics of tinnitus caused by acoustic neuroma?

Acoustic neuromas can cause tinnitus in the early stages. This is caused by the acoustic neuroma affecting the function of the auditory nerve during the growth process. Tinnitus is generally characterized by a single ear occurrence and is not very effective, or it is ineffective after a long time.

Patients with acoustic neuroma have mild, buzzing, or intermittent episodes of tinnitus in the early stages of the disease. However, as the acoustic neuroma grows, the symptoms of tinnitus will become more and more severe, like a cicada chirping or a whistle, and each episode can last for several hours or even longer. In the advanced stage of the onset of acoustic neuroma, sometimes 5-10 years after the onset of the disease, the symptoms of tinnitus gradually decrease, but the hearing of the ear will gradually decline.

This is because when the acoustic neuroma grows, it destroys the auditory nerve.

In the early stage of the onset of acoustic neuroma, the symptoms of tinnitus are often mild, sometimes intermittent, such as intermittent buzzing or sizzling sounds, which may be high-pitched or low-key.

Although it is a benign tumor, it can cause a series of symptoms of the auditory nerve because it arises from the nerves.

However, as the onset of acoustic neuroma progresses to the advanced stage of the disease, tinnitus sometimes gradually decreases or even disappears, but the hearing of the ear will decrease significantly, which is due to the characteristics of acoustic neuroma, in addition to tinnitus, there is also hearing loss. If the hearing loss is severe, it can be completely deaf.

Nervous tinnitus can be caused by many diseases, such as sudden deafness, Meniere's disease, otosclerosis, or ototoxic drugs. There is also acoustic neuroma, which is also a common cause of neurological tinnitus.

When patients with acoustic neuroma have tinnitus, they may need to undergo surgical stereotactic radiation**, it is recommended that patients go to the hospital and choose a reasonable **method according to the doctor's guidance.

Neurological tinnitus is also known as sensorineural tinnitus, and the clinical manifestations of neurological tinnitus usually have the following five types: sensory tinnitus, tinnitus of acoustic neuroma, central nervous tinnitus, earache, and lack of energy.

1. Sensory tinnitus: Usually patients will have symptoms such as hearing loss, and the degree of tinnitus will also be affected by the degree of hearing loss.

2. Tinnitus caused by acoustic neuroma: For patients with unilateral tinnitus and normal hearing, acoustic neuroma must be excluded.

3. Central nervous system tinnitus: symptoms of hearing impairment usually occur.

4. Earache: Patients with neuropathic tinnitus not only have hearing impairment, but also have persistent earache, but patients with chronic otitis media have no obvious earache.

5. Lack of energy: patients with nervous tinnitus usually have the phenomenon of lack of energy, because of the sudden loss of hearing, it will also be affected psychologically, and it is easy to have anxiety and depression, and the mood will be more nervous.

First, you can do electroaudiometry and auditory brainstem evoked potential examination. If it is just simple tinnitus, generally speaking, the hearing examination is normal, and the auditory brainstem evoked potential examination is not obviously abnormal. In the case of acoustic neuroma, it may cause neurological hearing loss, accompanied by abnormal electrical potentials in the auditory brainstem.

Second, you can consider having an MRI of the head, and after the MRI of the head, you can determine whether you have an acoustic neuroma.

In general, most tinnitus is not caused by acoustic neuroma, but may be caused by excessive fatigue, neurological tinnitus or noise, and only a small percentage of patients are caused by acoustic nerve tumors. The incidence of acoustic neuroma is relatively low.

I think it can be judged by the patient's physical, mental, behavioral, words and deeds, and medical condition.

Nervous tinnitus is mostly similar to high-frequency tinnitus in products, and a few people may have low-frequency tinnitus, like the roar of a machine. There is also no intermittent nerves, that is, sometimes there is a persistent ringing that keeps ringing, and some patients may not have tinnitus during the day, and there will be tinnitus at night. At the same time, tinnitus may affect the quality of life if the sound is relatively strong, and some patients will affect sleep and mood.

Patients with severe tinnitus may have psychological diseases caused by psychological changes such as anxiety and depression, so if tinnitus occurs, it is necessary to ** as soon as possible, because the earlier ** the better.

What are the manifestations of nervous tinnitus? Tinnitus is the buzzing of the brain and ears, the sound of a car like a car, the sound of driving a car, the sound of knowing, and all kinds of strange sounds.

Tinnitus is a precursor to deafness, it is a neurological tinnitus that must pay attention to the best work, tinnitus is a sign of deafness, we must do a good job, neurological tinnitus is a type of otogenic tinnitus, one of the common tinnitus and otolaryngological problems.