About Eric P. Wilkinson, MD Expertise I am a board-certified otolaryngologist with additional subspecialty training in otology, neurotology, and skull base surgery. This is the subspecialty of otolaryngology that involves the ear, hearing, balance organs, the facial nerve, and surgery of the skull base including surgery for acoustic neuroma and other benign and malignant tumors of the base of the skull.
Experience Medical school, residency in otolaryngology, fellowship in otology/neurotology/skull base surgery
Organizations American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
North American Skull Base Society
American Neurotology Society
Publications Laryngoscope Otology and Neurotology
Education/Credentials MD Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 2001
Otolaryngology Residency, University of Iowa Department of Otolaryngology, Iowa City, IA
Otology/Neurotology Fellowship, House Ear Clinic, Los Angeles, CA
Expert: Eric P. Wilkinson, MD Date: 12/6/2007 Subject: loud noise in left ear(freight train sound)
Question Had stroke in february of this year, a few days short of a month later lost hearing in left ear 95%gone..My left side of my body (ARM,leg,etc..)was not working, tharepy went well..This noise..ent doctor found after tests of my head normal...Please whats next insanaty ..cant get to sleep..
Answer Often, tinnitus (the noise you are experiencing) is due to a hearing loss; due to the absence of sound input to the brain at that frequency range, you are perceiving a sound. There are some new tinnitus treatments available now that can help you. See an otologist (ear specialist) for examination and treatment.
