Sydney had her official hearing test on Friday. Initially she flat lined the tymp. ear test so they decided it could be due to wax, so they took us to another room and scraped out a small amount of wax until they could see the ear drum itself. Then we went back to the sound room. She flat lined the test again, which is not good. She was suppossed to get a nice little mountain shaped test line.
The hearing test itself was interesting. Sydney's ears are technically fine, and when they put the sound on her bone behind her ear, she did really well (normal to above normal hearing), but she has too much fluid built up in between her eardrums and the middle ear to let the sound travel through on the headphone test. She scored a mild to moderate loss there. She has been on allergy meds for a month, with as far as we can tell no impact. grrr. The audiologist thought that if the meds were going to improve things drainage wise, we would be seeing that already. But before I take her off them, I will talk to another ENT person.
Emily had the exact same problem, it just started sooner with her. So Sydney is going to need tubes put in her ears just like her big sister. I wish I knew what causes this with my kiddos. I am going to ask for an allergy test for her too and ask for food this time not just environment. But this will probably drag out for some time which just annoys me due to the glacial pace of our health care. I want it fixed now so my baby can hear!!!!! So Sydney has another referral in the the Portsmouth Naval hospital to get an appointment with ENT department to get a consult to see if she should have tubes. She has a different ENT appointment coming up in 3 weeks, but that is for possible sleep apnea and they can't seem to rewrite that appointment to include tube evaluation even though it is that far away. Go figure!!!!
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