Howdy folks. If you are interested in the sport of diving you should definitely read this article. Because I don't want what happened to me to happen to anyone. Of course, the top priority in this sport is knowledge and education. Of course, although we are trying to fulfill all the criteria, we can experience some unexpected problems because of our body.
What Is Barotrauma?
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)
It's called hiberbaric oxygen therapy, so if you're diving, you'll understand very easily what I'm saying; for example, you dive to a depth of 10 meters and you reach 2 atmospheric pressures from 1 atmospheric pressure. Your lungs and veins narrowed according to him. You've reached a depth of 20 meters and atmospheric pressure has increased to (ATM) 3. This is a method that speeds up your healing process by inhaling pure oxygen to you at this depth. I didn't think it was the same thing for Scuba diving people to breathe oxygen at these depths... In this method of treatment they put you in a tube. They Seat 8 + 2 seats, which seem to be very uncomfortable but comfortable. You put the 2 hoses in the mask they gave you into the 2 holes above you. One is used to draw back the pure oxygen you breathe, while the other is used to draw back the carbon dioxide air returning from your lungs. The inside of the tube looks like a submarine. Like the round windows and the locks on the doors... Closing doors. Pressure readings inside are slowly increasing. In the process, your ears are already starting to crack. We do ear equalization with the valsalva method we know, balancing. For those who do not know the Valsalva method or do not know how to do ear equalization, I will drop a small footnote in the continuation of the article, but the friends there already give you preliminary information about how to do it.
At the private hospital I went to, the session of hiberbaric oxygen therapy lasted 2 hours. They advised me to get 2 sessions a day, so I started to get a treatment that lasted 4 hours between 8:30 and 10:30 in the morning and between 13:00 and 15:00 in total. The session fee for the insured patients at the hospital I was in was £ 90. Of course, they said they should see an ENT specialist first at the first entrance. I paid for the ENT and went to see a doctor. "Hmm. Yes, he doesn't hear..."I got your answer. They said he needed to see an underwater medicine doctor, the department that then referred him to Hiberbaric Oxygen Therapy. I told him okay. I paid for that section and went to the underwater physician. After examining the ear values, he informed me about the number of sessions I should take. He said I should take 10 sessions and re-measure, and that he would determine if I should take another 10 sessions, depending on the situation. In addition, I came within a week that the possibility of saving the ear, if I came within 1 month that the probability is very low, 1 month after the information of the rescue gave. When I learned that I could take 2 sessions a day, I started to calculate my basic needs such as accommodation and eating and drinking by calculating that I would be in Denizli for at least 5 days.
First Session Of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Because they increase the pressure inside a closed tube and give you oxygen, you obviously have nothing to do in the tube. There's only a TV in there. In my first session, TRT music was on and I could only hear it in one ear. There were over 65 uncles and aunts in the House. Because of the corona virus, they sat us intermittently in seats for 8 people. So there were 4 or 5 of us. 5. the person could have been a patient brought in on a stretcher. They had also signed a paper because the door was closed when the tube was pressurized, even though there was a virus in the air inside, because of the danger of transmission. You have a lot of time to think and plan during treatment. My initial plan was to read a book to make good use of my time during the session. I came to the next session with my book.
I'm trying to give you all the information that I think can be as useful as possible, as a part of a different friend of ours might be exactly the subject he needs.
I left the hospital as soon as the session was over. I had to arrange a place to stay first. I looked at a few hotels, but the prices were exorbitant. In addition, salt and sugar were prohibited due to prednol cortisone treatment, and there were no restaurants where I could eat outside. So I headed for the apartments. I rented a clean, affordable apartment. I started my diet by taking unsalted bread from the oven, vegetables and fruit from the market, and a few pieces of meat from the butcher.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy after the second session
Before the session, the otolaryngologist at the private hospital performed the second one, the steroid cortisone needle through the ear. The day had to be done excessively and my doctor had given me 3 pieces.
I've had a second session of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. I was prepared this time. I started reading my book, "Change Your Life in 7 Days," whose author was Paul McKenna. When I started my book, I said, "God willing, when the book is finished, my ear will hear it."
Almost 6. there was no reaction in my ear until my session. This is 3. or 4. I'd say days. It's just the ringing and buzzing in the ear... It's just the sadness of hearing it in the left ear, like I'll always live like this... 6. as of my session, I noticed something different in the tube. Starting from 0.0 to 1.3 atmospheric pressure (ATM) was raised in the tube, after 1 atm the ringing in the ear started to react to the music played on TRT Müzik which was on television.
The tones of the ringing ranged as the music played. This was a good sign. That tone opened up a bit more in the next session. Now I could hear the music just as sizzling, sounding like "cis Ciss CISSS Ciss." Of course, this hearing process was after 1 ATM. When 1 ATM went under, that is, it was not close to coming out of the tube. Ninth as of my session, my ear began to hear music only as a high-pitched sound. When I came out of the tube this time, I realized that I was out the way I was at the time of the pressure the previous day. That meant. If I was only hearing treble in the tube today, I would hear better tomorrow and after tomorrow's treatment I would be able to start hearing treble outside as well.
And that's exactly what happened. ten. added an extra mid tone to the high-pitched voice I heard during the session. Now I can hear the conversations in a sizzling way of the music playing on TRT music. However, my ear began to hear the same sound as echo lu 2 times in a row with a little sync shift had begun to hear and was doing excessive reverberation. This meant that he could hear, but because the second echoing sound was on him, he couldn't quite understand what was happening.
11. when I came to the session, I could hear it in the tube, even though my ear was very low. 12. it got louder during the session, and I could hear it outside. Buzzing and 2. it was really good news that I could hear it, even though it was the echoing sound that overlapped. Even though the days I thought I would never hear of the first days passed before my eyes, I was only thinking about the day I would be released from the hospital, as my happiness outweighed it. Besides, I finished my book. 
12 of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. they wanted to do a test in the morning the day after the Seaforth. I was excited because I could hear it. Although not as much as before, it is really important to be able to hear from 2 ears. The Test results came back. I could hear 75% compared to the old one. I have a 25% loss and ringing. Our ENT specialist doctor told me that after seeing the result, I had recovered sufficiently and could go home. I got the best news. But he said the underwater physician could also see it and recommend additional sessions. Right after that, I went to the underwater physician. He told me that 75% recovery in this time is a very fast process, that I can terminate the treatment if I want, but if I take 3 sessions in 3 separate days, the tinnitus may also decrease.
Frankly, so much fear, anxiety and excitement to live together and spend 1 week away in my family outside the city, I decided to return to my home after that day's session.
I am currently on my medication as I write this article. I'm not sure how long I'm going to go on because of the tinnitus, but I plan to see my otolaryngologist again when I'm off my meds and explain the situation.
5 let's take care of our senses
I hope I've been able to provide useful information about sudden hearing loss.
If it didn't happen to you, this information will give you something and I'm glad you can protect yourself.
But it happened to you, and if you're reading this article, I hope you're in your early days. Because your chances are good. Don't lose hope. Start treatment in no time.
Thick and healthy.
