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Old 03-19-2013, 08:51 PM
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I don't think they know if it's genetic or not, or even what causes it? Nobody in my family has had one as far as I know back over hundred years. Hearing loss is the first sign and the only way to detect it early other than MRI. My first noticable sign about 18 years before the operation was droopy left eye lid, then headaches which got worse and worse.