No. Mere speculation. As I have posted here before, five or six years ago I got Sudden Hearing Loss. It was hell. Sounded like there was a band in my ear playing loud music backwards, then my hearing went. I was very fortunate however, 2 rounds of steroids corrected it over the process of 6 or 7 weeks, and my hearing was restored due to the very aggressive treatment my doc ordered, after I was diagnosed quickly.
I have never taken prescription painkillers.
No. Mere speculation. (non sequitur snip--description of poster's sudden hearing loss correction attributed to regimen of steroids.)
Several years ago my sister was prescribed OxyContin and lost a great deal of her hearing before its use was discontinued. Rush's hearing loss is curiously correlated with OxyContin [ab]use. I don't know what other drugs she or he may have been using concurrently, but OxyContin appears ototoxic based on these and similar cases.
I'm firing off an email to my otoneurologist now to get his take on the ototoxic properties of OxyContin.