You hum - if you hear your own voice amplified in the blocked ear, there’s nothing to worry about, it’s probably ear wax or fluid, if you hear your voice amplified in the good ear, that’s an emergency.

Steven Rauch

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There is a short time window, no more than two to four weeks, during which you can treat it with steroids, if you treat it within the first couple of weeks, about 75 percent of patients get some of their hearing back, but if you miss that window it’s too late.

They’re little numbers and it doesn’t really shed any light on our basic understanding of sudden hearing loss.