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Many people that are affected with acoustic neuroma have difficulty living a normal day to day life. It can definitely effect your day to day life, especially if you have to deal with permanent hearing loss. Many people who get this condition taken care of right off bat, will not have to worry about dealing with any permanent symptoms for the rest of their lives. Many people end up getting hearing aids as well as therapy for a condition called tinnitus. This can result from acoustic neuroma, Read the rest of this entry »

Many people that have acoustic neuroma will have symptoms that will cause you to go and see a doctor. Hearing loss will be one of the first signs that people will notice. This hearing loss will go away gradually, although in some cases many people end up having sudden hearing loss on only one side of their ears. Ringing is also usually felt in the ears. A loss of balance and unsteadiness is also noticed in Read the rest of this entry »

Another name for Acoustic Neuroma is vestibular schwannoma. It is a tumor found inside the cranium or skull and within the nerve in the ear. The medical term for the nerve is vestibulocochlear. This nerve is responsible for balance, called equilibrium, and the sound information that is sent from the inner ear to the brain.

Damage to the vestibulocochlear nerve resulting from an acoustic neuroma, can cause a patient to experience total or partial hearing loss, a lack of balance, ear pressure, and/or nausea.Didn’t catch that? This explains it. Some patients also experience tinnitus or Read the rest of this entry »

Many people have a hard time trying to figure out how they have been diagnosed with acoustic neuroma. There are some causes that can lead to this condition. When a person is diagnosed with acoustic neuroma, they have been diagnosed with tumors on the main nerve leading from their inner ear to their brain. It actually seems to be caused from a gene that is known as a malfunction on chromosome 22. This gene will produce a protein that will help direct the growth of Read the rest of this entry »