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My children both developed hearing loss due to ototoxicity following antibiotic treatment for ear infections. They've been wearing hearing aids for about 9 years now. How realistic is it to hope that we could regrow their cochlear hair in the next 10 years?

Dianne TuckerNovember 19, 2009
Singapore



I have experienced tinnitus since 1986. I was diagnosed with Menier's. My hearing is getting progressively worse--both ears are flat @70Db. I would like to volunteer for hair cell regeneration therapy when it is available. My poor hearing is what led me back to school and into the hearing business.

Carl ,  Hearing Inst. Disp.,  Own OfficeOctober 11, 2009
Chelan, WA

I lost my hearing in my left ear via being too close to an explosion in Afghanistan. Three surgeries later I still have a great deficit as well as constant tinnitis. If regrowing hair would work to get rid of the tinnitis I'm up for it!!!! Just a single constant tone makes hearing speach so difficult. How many times can a person ask "what?" or say "huh?" until it's no longer polite? Keep on keeping on and hope for help out there soon.

Danielle October 01, 2009
AL

My son was born with unilateral deafness. He did not pass both the otoacoustic and auditory brain stem test in his left ear. These tests were repeated at least 5 times in different settings. In his fifth month he developed hair cells and he is responding to the otoaccoustic test but failing the brainstem test. He is now 15 months old.

bruveer September 22, 2009

I think that we all realize that these techniques are in very early stages of development. Nevertheless, I'd expect that many of us would be very interested in the possibility of early testing, in hopes of dealing with our own conditions.

Can you tell us anything about any opportunities to get early access to any of these restorative procedures?

Brian August 18, 2009
CA

I am a 25 year old graduate from Sierra Leone in West Africa. I have just completed my university studies and I have just been employed. I started having balance problems last year when I was treated with Gentamicin for an infection. My whiole life has been been saddened by this because I can't live normally. I can't go out with friends and I try not to have any type of work outside my office. The company I work for doesn't know about this and neither do my colleagues. There are certain pitchs of sound I cannot hear, but my main problem is the balance issue. If I get something like the flu, it becomes worse. Each time I move my head I cannot focus on what is in front of me and I end up toppling.

If there are any human experiments needed I am willing to be part of that experiment with no compensation if anything goes wrong.

I am really fed up to be like this.

I hope some breakthrough will come soon.

Alpha Bah,  Engineer,  ZainAugust 13, 2009
Freetown



My 14 year old daughter is having hearing loss since at her age of 3 years. She used Hearing aids and it is not of much use. If this regrowing hair cells technology becomes succesfull, it will be another birth for millions of children like my daughter. i pray the almighty for this research comes out successfully

Subramanian L July 26, 2009
Trichy, IN

I lost my hearing five years ago, The specialists I have seen have no answers as to why I lost it. I am a 57-year-old female. Regrowing hair cells in the human cochlea would be wonderful. I am having a difficult time with my hearing loss. With the help of hearing aids, I can have sound but I have no speech comprehension. When my hearing went, I lost more then my hearing--I lost my active daily living, I lost friends and my job as a surgical coodinator. Everything that I loved to do is gone now because you need your hearing to do it.

It's a cruel world out there. This world is for the hearing, not the deaf. If you had your hearing and lost it, you've lost your world. If you were born deaf, what you didn't have you won't miss.

I know this regrowing hair cells is not in my future, but I hope it does happen because I would not wish this on anyone.

Thank you for the great website.

Diane A. Seeley

Diane SeeleyJuly 14, 2009
New Port Richey, FL


     

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