I think it was behind the ear tho it was all fairly stressful so unfortunately I can’t recall if I heard low frequencies better or the same through the bone conduction. Perhaps it indicates in the chart?
In lay terms, if someone with otosclerosis puts on bone conduction headphones, do they hear better? Or the same.
I should add: I’ve had an MRI done, so they confirmed it’s not Meniere’s Disease, nor, thankfully, any kind of tumour.
Your test confirms it isn’t a problem with your middle ear so yes, it’ll be sensinural (can’t spell the word).
Better as it’s by passing the damaged part of the ear. It may not be ‘perfect’ but it’ll be better.
In that case do you have any ideas what could be causing this distortion and weird tracking of frequencies? The low-freq loss is annoying, as is the tinnitus, but the distortion physically hurts when things get loud.
Left ear low frequency loss and distortion.
Diagnosis nerve damage.
The problem with that diagnosis, which very well may be right, is that it doesn’t tell me anything. This started a year ago, during lockdown, the quietest months of my adult life, when I wasn’t sick or otherwise undergoing any health problems.
Any ideas what might have caused the damage?
Very few people find out why they become hard of hearing / deaf.
Does the distortion/frequency shifting at least sound like anything known? I’d feel better if I at least knew what the name was.
Not sure what caused it.
No one really ever told me what may have caused it .
In my case may have been work related.
Used to do commercial refrigeration.
Lots of big noisy compressors, fans.
Also used a lot of noisy tools.
To be honest no one really seemed to care.
The last ENT I went to wanted me to go to a different doctor for maybe an MRI.
I never followed up.
I don’t know maybe I will one day.
I tinker with kegerators now and then. Replacing a compressor on a commercial reach in now, Hoshizaki.
35 years can’t tell you how many compressors I replaced.
Just to be clear, I work in audio and was taught at an early age to wear earplugs in loud environments and have done so, religiously, for 25 years. This condition came on during lockdown, when there were no shows and I didn’t even own speakers, so my concern was actually that it was caused by a lack of loud sound rather than too much.
So, to be clear, it’s 100% not caused by any kind of abuse. There’s no family history of it that I know of, at least not on my mom’s side, and nothing showed on an MRI.
I do often feel some kind of physical sensation around my ear on the left that I’ve never felt on the right and I feel like it’s related to the hearing loss but, again, the MRI didn’t show anything different.
I’m the only one in my family that is hard of hearing. Also my MRI was clear. Very few people find out why they become deaf or hard of hearing.
All kind of hearing loss in my family.
Brother, sister, mom. Pretty sure dad but he never wore aids.
I’m the only one with low frequency loss.
Was also told low frequency loss can be genetic.
Beats me.
Left eat absolutely sucks.
Bad tinnitus plus distortion.
Why, don’t know.
I wouldn’t drive myself crazy over why.
Not worth it.
Just do what you have to do to help your hearing the best you can.
Something I noticed yesterday: when I hum I hear no distortion and the frequency response is perfectly even across both ears, right down to the lowest note I can hum, which is fairly low since I’m a baritone/tenor.
If it was sensorineural hearing loss that should also apply to the sound of my own voice, no? In which case the lowest notes would be in my “good” ear only?
I have an ENT appointment in a week and I’m thinking it would be good to do some more testing there.
It’s not noise damage.
It could be some weirdy form of otosclerosis, but; there’s no Carhart Notch and the asymmetrical nature would indicate otherwise.
I’d go with a loss of cochlear function, which could indicate calcification of the deeper parts of the cochlear (again Asym?). Dead(ish)region of the basilar membrane or fluid loss to the innermost part of the cochlear.
Have you been bashed on that side of the head?; Perlilymph fistula occurs when the leverage of the mass of the ossicles tears a gap in the tissue at the footplate of the stapes.
The loss of 40dB of Hearing is fairly significant too; this is indicative that the ‘cochlear tuning’ outer/inner hair cell function has been impaired.
If you have good insurance as with all forms of SN Asymmetry, you might want to get a scan done just to check that there’s nothing acting on your retro-cochlear function that’s going to get worse.
No head bashing, at least not in the last 25 years. I played rugby in my teens but didn’t get smacked around much.
What’s “SN Asymmetry”?
Also: still wondering this…
Googling will help you……
I googled “SN Asymmetry” before I posted.
I suggest you try it yourself and if the answer is obvious from those results then please enlighten us who don’t already know it.
