Early symptoms of auditory nerve damage may involve hearing or balance problems as the auditory system communicates information concerning sound and body positioning to the brain. Symptoms include tinnitus, sensorineural hearing loss, dizziness, or vertigo with or without vomiting and nausea.owever, this is not usually the case. Most deaf people have conductive hearing loss due to damage in the middle ear structures. Neural hearing loss due to auditory nerve damage is much less common than conductive hearing loss and is usually irreversible.