I had surgery at MDA 5 years ago this week for a skull base chondrosarcoma.  As follow-up, I had stereotactic radiosurgery a few weeks later on the residual tumor.  I now come out to Houston (I live near Atlanta) once a year and all is well.  I am so grateful!

I have had numbness of my tongue and cheek tissue and some loss of hearing ever since the surgery and treatment, and understand that this is normal.  However, the hearing loss continues even now to worsen and the tongue numbness, too.  I have difficulty hearing much of anything in my affected ear.  My tongue seems to have lost some of its movement to the point that it's sometimes hard to move food around in my mouth as before.  If I touch my cheek (inside or out) or my tongue, I can feel that.  It's like the numbness is "inside".  It is all worse at times and better at times.   Is any of this ever reversable?  Would it be an issue for an ENT or some other specialist?

Thank you!!!!!