“Can acupuncture help with hearing loss?”
I have sudden hearing loss in my left ear. Can acupuncture help with hearing loss?
9 Answers
Acupuncture combined with herbs can help with hearing loss over time.
No
Acupuncture yes
Acupuncture yes
Sometimes. It depends on what happened. I encourage you to book a session with your practitioner of choice to get help with relief.
Terlenda Lassiter
Speech-Language Pathologist
That's not something I can get behind nor recommend personally. That's something you'd have to ask someone in that field of work. I personally would not recommend that type of practice.
Yes, it can. The sooner you receive treatment to the date of onset, the more effective it will be.
Warmly,
Natalie Ramsey, MS LAc
Warmly,
Natalie Ramsey, MS LAc
I have not had success with tinnitus or hearing loss, but I would encourage you to call the practitioners near you to see if they have.
Yes, acupuncture can help with hearing loss.
No scientific merit. Best to do steroid injections, migraine meds
Hearing issues are extremely difficult to work with. There can be genetic and lifestyle components at play. On top of that, hearing damage is cumulative and people don't often notice the slow creep until they wake up one morning and can't hear out of one or both ears.
If I were you, my first stop would be an ENT. You may have wax build-up blocking the ear canal and clearing that out might return things to normal. Assuming the ENT gives you a clean bill of health, your next stop should be an audiologist. You need to know the extent of the hearing loss and an audiologist will be able to give you that information.
Once you've been through those folks, and your hearing isn't improved any, maybe give acupuncture a shot. The thing is, in my experience, if it responds at all, hearing responds very slowly. You could be looking at months of treatment.
You also need to consider the lifestyle component. Like I mentioned up top, hearing damage is cumulative. If you're constantly in loud environments without hearing protection, if you often listen to loud music in confined spaces - like a car - or use ear buds with the volume up, you will need to change those behaviors and/or start getting serious about wearing ear protection otherwise the damage will keep building.
If I were you, my first stop would be an ENT. You may have wax build-up blocking the ear canal and clearing that out might return things to normal. Assuming the ENT gives you a clean bill of health, your next stop should be an audiologist. You need to know the extent of the hearing loss and an audiologist will be able to give you that information.
Once you've been through those folks, and your hearing isn't improved any, maybe give acupuncture a shot. The thing is, in my experience, if it responds at all, hearing responds very slowly. You could be looking at months of treatment.
You also need to consider the lifestyle component. Like I mentioned up top, hearing damage is cumulative. If you're constantly in loud environments without hearing protection, if you often listen to loud music in confined spaces - like a car - or use ear buds with the volume up, you will need to change those behaviors and/or start getting serious about wearing ear protection otherwise the damage will keep building.
