I had a bit of "viral" or nerve hearing loss in my left ear about two years or so ago. My ENT couldn't tell me why I lost that high-frequency hearing.

Well, I could live with that, but then a year ago I started getting chronic ear infections in my right ear along with a perforation in the ear. They would always come back, but I didn't lose any hearing in that ear. After a recent bout of infection in my right ear about two months ago, I experienced a brief infection, or it seemed so in my left ear. I was taking prednisone and antibiotices for the infection. This "infection" had very little drainage and no pain, but it knocked that ear out completely...I'm deaf in it. After many tests and CAT scans my ENT thinks that the joints of the middle ear bones are loose and that there is no way to restore the hearing. Audiologists told me that my nerve hearing is still good in that ear.

Is there any operation that can repair those bones in my middle ear? My ENT can't tell me why I keep getting infections (I have a slight one now in my right, or good, ear), and he says he can only wait and see if I get hearing back from the left ear.

I'm a musician and I'm really depressed. Everything sounds different and I can't hear people talking. Music was my life and I'm not coping well. No one understands why I'm depressed. I'm also afraid infections going to take out my good ear and I'l be totally deaf.

Any advice???