Stone Cold Deaf Beyond 10 kHz

[Telis]

Anyone lost ALL hearing in ultra high frequencies. I could hear way up 17-18khz before I lost it all to meds. Anyone here relate? Just curious.

 

[Sjoerd]

Not that I am aware of. Did you have any extended hearing test? How is the rest of your hearing (below 10k?)

 

[David S]

@Telis are you sure that you could hear that high tones? How did you test?

Found this, some general estimation of how hearing should develop over the years.

I am so tired of not being able to get my high freq tested so i decided to by my on pc based audiometer. Hope i get it in a week or so.

 

[Martin69]

@Telis
My audiogram is a "ski slope". So it goes down after 6 kHz.
My T was not related to any acoustic trauma, meds etc. So at the time my T started, there was no change to my ears.
Therefore I had HF hearing loss before and after T, probably because of clubbing, motorbike, concerts.
Maybe just age-related, but for sure I have high hearing loss in the high frequencies. But I am not deaf there, just have to tune up the volume a lot.
And BTW, when I play the dog whistle in my head on my mobile, many people can hardly hear it. Because they all have this hearing loss. They were all surprised.

 

[Telis]

@Telis are you sure that you could hear that high tones? How did you test?

Found this, some general estimation of how hearing should develop over the years.

I am so tired of not being able to get my high freq tested so i decided to by my on pc based audiometer. Hope i get it in a week or so.

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Hey Martin, yes I was in the industry of high end audio equipment for years...my hearing was A+ Prior to T. I could easily tell the difference between a compressed audio file vs full spectrum sound. In fact I couldn't stand the sound of a mp3 audio file. I never tested my hearing prior to T but I had a very good ear. Now, honestly I couldn't tell the difference between a 100 dollar pair of speakers vs a 100,ooo dollar pair. I had my hearing tested after 5 months T onset at the audiologist...I hear nothing expect T beyond 10k. I could also take a test tone of any frequency above 10k and blast it full on my high end head phones and hear nothing, just feel a bit of pressure and pain.

 

[Telis]

@Martin69. Try pure tones to test your hearing. Pull a file online at whatever frequency you want, see if you can hear it.

 

[David S]

@Telis

I see, if you been in the high end audio equipment business I understand you know for sure. Just before T I was planning to spoil myself with a pair of Dali Mentor. It´s not too high on my bucket list anymore. In fact i do not listen to music that much more, dose not sound as it used. Have a hard time getting used to the high pitched tone spinning up wile listing.

My good ear can hear up to around 15000Hz, my bad ear goes up to around 12000hz so my hearing is asymmetric. I am quite sure that is the reason for my high pitched whistle i my left ear.

 

[Telis]

@Telis

I see, if you been in the high end audio equipment business I understand you know for sure. Just before T I was planning to spoil myself with a pair of Dali Mentor. It´s not too high on my bucket list anymore. In fact i do not listen to music that much more, dose not sound as it used. Have a hard time getting used to the high pitched tone spinning up wile listing.

My good ear can hear up to around 15000Hz, my bad ear goes up to around 12000hz so my hearing is asymmetric. I am quite sure that is the reason for my high pitched whistle i my left ear.

Yeah, spoiling yourself with some nice audio equipment is kind of useless when you have bad T

 

[RaZaH]

I can just barely hear up to 13khz and like you lost it to meds.
My ears were also A+ , I was doing mastering of albums before I got hit by this shitstorm.

 

[Katkin]

I've tried the hearing tests posted on YouTube, I can hear up to 14 KHz. 15 KHz with the volume increased, 16 and 17 KHz I could hear a distorted sort of buzz. I noticed on one test, that advises you to plug each ear to listen with both the right and left ear independently, that my left ear appears to be better than my right. My mum (who I lost in January 2013) also told me that her left ear was better than her right. My audiologist also told me that most people have one ear that is better than the other. I noticed that my left ear was more proficient at hearing than my right, a long time ago before I had tinnitus. I am 50 years old. I know people with hearing loss, people with noise exposure, injury etc without tinnitus - so why do we have it and how do we stop it? Has our brain turned up our hearing for some reason, and if so, how do we turn it down?

 

[Victoria76]

Audiophile here, can't hear much beyond about 10,500 hz. Only 42, don't know how it happened, just gradually in my mid-30s. Do they do hearing aids for hearing loss that high? I had a hearing test that only went up to 8,000 hz, fat lot of use that was.

 

[David S]

I had a hearing test that only went up to 8,000 hz, fat lot of use that was.

How did your hearing test come out? You do not need hearing above 8 kHz in everyday life. You can also have hidden hearing loss.

 

[Victoria76]

I don't live an ordinary life.

My hearing test is null and void as far as I'm concerned as no soundproofing was used.

 

[David S]

I don't live an ordinary life.

Who lives an ordinary life around here?

 

[Juan]

Who lives an ordinary life around here?

hahaha that's a good one! Ordinary life with H.

 

[all to gain]

I reckon i've lost high frequency hearing, but how much I don't know. Definitely down to meds as well.

I tried listening to some on line hearing tests and frequencies, but without good headphones and without knowing how the files were made I don't think it meas much. On the online ones I was between 8-11.000 and am 49.

Just tried two more and I was around 9250-10,000.

 

[foam]

I'm 48 and been on quite a few nasty immune suppressors and such over the last 5 years. Left ear goes to 10.5khz, right ear 12.5khz.. That's all I've got (tinnitus is in the left side) I would bet you anything the differential between them is the reason for the Tinnitus, guess what frequency the tinnitus is.. yep 10.5khz. My wife can still hear to 16khz or so and she's 40. You should in theory not be able to hear 15khz by the time you are in your early 40s