Poll: Do You Wear Hearing Aids?
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I've never done this before but I might the next time I see my hearing aid specialist. Ask your hearing aid guy to test your hearing with your hearing aids ON and then give you the audiogram. If it isn't up to 0dB or higher across the spectrum, tell him you would like it to be at least at 0dB. In my experience the hearing aid people didn't program it that way in the beginning and I had to tell them to do it. Take a look at the audiogram on page 1 of the document below. The 0 is good hearing, the -10 is great hearing. But if he does this BE SURE that sound can't be amplified above a safe level and you might want it to be even lower than that. I had my hearing aid guy do some kind of manipulations in programming and its been able to take all maskable ringing away and reduced nonmaskable ringing some in quiet places. I can actually go places and not hear the ringing for the first time in years!!
The medication I am taking now (once it was bumped up) is really helping me to habituate very easily in quiet environments. I will see if it continues.http://www.chimehealth.co.uk/web/data/audiogram-hearing-loss-examples-2.pdf
I am no expert but I have a theory. If you had custom molds for your hearing aids which would block most of the sound from coming in to your ear directly. Then you program the hearing aid to correct for hearing loss, and then you ask the guy to limit the dB that are allowed to go to your ear to something comfortable. Ask the hearing aid guy if this is possible.
Member- Dec 17, 2015
- 577
- Tinnitus Since
- December 2nd, 2015
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Acoustic trauma (loud concert for 1h)
No, I don't have hearing aids. My ENT haven't even said a word about me getting one since my audiogram showed that I have perfect hearing, way above the average.
Check the picture. 20 is supposed to be "normal". I am above it. I asked for a test in the higher frequencies but she said it was unreliable and the fact that T can change in pitch so it could very well change a lot. So this audiogram only goes up to 8000 hz. So I guess they are not interested in giving me hearing aids considering that I can hear perfectly and they can't say for sure at what frequency or how much I have lost there. But if it would help me to lessen the T, I'd go with hearing aids. But I have not noticed anything change in my hearing despite the ringing of course.
Check the picture. 20 is supposed to be "normal". I am above it. I asked for a test in the higher frequencies but she said it was unreliable and the fact that T can change in pitch so it could very well change a lot. So this audiogram only goes up to 8000 hz. So I guess they are not interested in giving me hearing aids considering that I can hear perfectly and they can't say for sure at what frequency or how much I have lost there. But if it would help me to lessen the T, I'd go with hearing aids. But I have not noticed anything change in my hearing despite the ringing of course.
How is it possible that you can hear a 0 dB sound in the hearing test? Shouldn't that be inaudible? Are you super human?
I don't have hearing loss so hearing loss isn't the only reason to get them. It maximizes environmental noise and you can add in masking and I literally MOST OF THE TIME don't notice my T. It really does mask the T. That is not a bad reason to get them. My T Is really high pitch though so unless I'm distracted I can still "feel" it. It's really odd. That part still sucks. It feels like I am hearing a really loud high pitch shriek. I'm hoping I will get used to that. Anyway most places let you try them out so what is the harm?
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That's pretty normal, 0db means she can hear the most silent tones at certain frequencies.
Younger people should have a 0-10db audiogram across the frequency range.
I'm almost 40
and my audiogram is 10-20db db up to 12KHz then I take a nice dive up to 16KHz (around 40db).
Younger people should have a 0-10db audiogram across the frequency range.
I'm almost 40
and my audiogram is 10-20db db up to 12KHz then I take a nice dive up to 16KHz (around 40db).
- Dec 17, 2015
- 577
- Tinnitus Since
- December 2nd, 2015
- Cause of Tinnitus
- Acoustic trauma (loud concert for 1h)
That is a good question to be honest. She didn't really go through it beside telling me that I hear perfect. I am also not sure what ear is blue or red, I think the red is my right ear, aka the good ear. But it was hard to hear sometimes, some where SO quiet but I could hear it very very faintly since it didn't sound like my T. I think the highest pitch is in my left, which I think is the blue line. There I have "worse" hearing than on my right. The low frequencies where of course tough and I hard to really focus to hear them. I wouldn't have heard it normally, but sitting in a booth and your sole purpose it to listen after sounds are another thing.
I remember sitting there and be like, wow, my T is so loud. How the hell am I gonna hear any new sounds! Hahaha
Song interpreter
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I wear one hearing aid. It's in the ear that always has the ringing. It helps some. I notice it most when I take my hearing aid out.
I wear 2 hearing aids. My hearing is terrible. I wish I had saved my audiogram from the hearing aids forum (that's now disappeared).
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