Migraine is one the most commonly seen health complaints in the outpatient department of otorhinolaryngology among all age groups with majority of them presenting without aura(90%) While idiopathic SNHL is also a common complaint in patients of middle age of either gender, deriving a correlation between the two may help understand the pathophysiology of migraine and its effect on SNHL if any may help reduce the incidence of SNHL by treating migraine. AIM: To study the relation between patients suffering from migraine and sensorineural hearing loss To study the effect of flunarizine on sensorineural hearing loss RESULTS: A total of 50 patients diagnosed with migraine were subjected to pure tone audiometry at the time of presentation and after treatment for one month with flunarizine. Results of pure tone audiometry showed 8(16%) out of 50 patients to have sensori neural hearing loss suffering from migraine. At the end of one month 3 (6%) out of 50 patients showed to have SNHL, indicating an improvement in 5(out of 8) patients. According to McNemar’s test there was a statistically significant association (p<0.05) between patients suffering from migraine and SNHL. When pretreatment and post treatment results were compared, the difference recorded was statistically significant(p><0.05)
