====== Progressive Hearing Damage ======

In 2023 (the same year as the first “normal” audiogram), I was acutely hospitalised with a syndrome that matched — in every described respect — the published case definition of Havana Syndrome / Anomalous Health Incidents (sudden onset severe ear pain, pressure, directional sound, vertigo, cognitive impairment, persistent vibrotactile sensations, and subsequent intractable unilateral tinnitus). Despite these classic red-flag symptoms, no neurological workup (no MRI inner-ear protocol, no vestibular testing, no directed neurocognitive assessment) was performed. Instead I was [[cluster_3|involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric ward and the episode was dismissed as psychogenic]]. I have suffered extreme, left-lateralised tinnitus every single day since that event, now accompanied by objectively documented progressive bilateral (especially left-sided) sensorineural hearing loss with an extremely unusual configuration.

This combination — acute Havana-Syndrome-like onset in 2023 followed by rapid, atypical progressive cochleovestibular damage — is not consistent with simple noise exposure, age, or primary psychiatric illness. It strongly justifies urgent re-evaluation in a specialised neuro-otology/tertiary tinnitus centre with full inner-ear MRI, extended high-frequency audiometry, otoacoustic emissions, vestibular testing, and consideration of directed neurological and immunological workup.

====== Comparison: Hearing Status 2023 vs. 2025 (2 years progression) ======

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The report written up by the doctor.

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This picture shows my audiometry result from 2023 at the UMC Utrecht.

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This picture shows my audiometry result from 2025 at Audika.

====== Summary of Progressive Loss (2023 → 2025) ======

**Right ear:**

From completely normal → mild high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss (average 15–20 dB worsening 3–8 kHz, plus ~10 dB shift even in lows and mids).

**Left ear (tinnitus ear):**

  * From essentially normal (only a 20 dB notch at 6 kHz) → highly atypical U-shaped pattern with new 25 dB low-frequency loss (125–250 Hz)  
  * preserved mid-frequencies  
  * new 25 dB high-frequency loss (6–8 kHz)  
  * Average worsening ≈20 dB across affected bands in only 2 years.

This rate and pattern of progression is objectively abnormal for a (now) 40-year-old and far exceeds normal age-related change. Obviously this is neural damage from directed energy weapons, as seen in Havana Syndrome.