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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 (more…)

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 (more…)

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 (more…)