Do you have an infection? take anti biotics!
this sounds serious, painful and debilitating.
I hope you will be able to pull thru with your
hearing intact! Is your hearing in the other
ear a long term loss? some forms of hearing loss
can be helped greatly with hearing aids. they
make state of the art digital ones now. If you
have cochlear degeneration, this is more difficult
to repair but i "hear" there can be implants to
improve this situation. good luck and keep us
posted.