What Causes Black Outs Followed By Loss Of Hearing?

Posted on Mon, 3 Aug 2015

Question: My 24 year old daughter has recently blacked out. she got extremely hot, stared off with blank expression, lost hearing, then collapsed like a wet noodle. that was 2 weeks ago, now tonight she had a loss of hearing for a short time, while working. have an appt. with neurologist Aug. 11, but what are we looking at. she works at hospital, has her bsn, and drives an hour each way. so concerned

Answered by Dr. Ajay Panwar (45 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Possibly seizures/MRI Brain with Epilepsy protocol/EEG.

Detailed Answer:
Hi XXXXX,
Thanks for being on healthcaremagic.com.
I am Dr.Ajay Panwar,a neurologist,here to answer your query.

The first episode in which your daughter collapsed after a staring look/blank expression could have been either a seizure or a syncope.However,second episode in which she just had loss of hearing without loss of consciousness goes against syncope.

So,her closest diagnosis is seizure disorder.She should undergo the following investigations-
1)MRI Brain with epilepsy protocol.
2)EEG

Besides,she can be started on a trial of antiepileptic medicines.Please discuss with your Neurologist regarding this.

Hope that I have answered your query.If you have some further questions,I shall be glad to answer else please close the thread,rate it and write a review as your rating will be of help to me.

Regards
Dr.Ajay Panwar,
MD,DM(Neurology)

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar