Hi, its me again - the nurse with the borderline hearing loss. Got my audiogram done and it hasn’t changed much in 7 years, but at least I have it in front of me now and can post it.
freq L R
.25 40 35
.5 45 25
1k 35 20
2k 35 25
3k 40 35
4k 40 40
6k 40 40
8k 45 45
since I have that hump of almost normal hearing in the middle, from what research I’ve done so far I have a mild reverse cookie bite by the looks of it. Not sure if this makes my life easier or harder, since it appears to be a pretty rare type.
From what the audiologist said, I also like things loud - which is true. My discrimination scores were 75 for the rt and 95 for the left. I usually turn the volume up past what I need, because that way I can enjoy what I’m watching/listening to and don’t have to concentrate constantly to try and make out what they say. I wasn’t too impressed with the speech discrimination part of the test though - he re-used the words for the right and left ear, so I found myself able to guess correctly for much of the left.
Since I have some low freq loss, the audiologist that did the test said I would be better off with an earmold than an open fit. I’m not worried about ‘discretion’ but I am worried about comfort - the open fit aids I have now (some cheap tango 3Ps from ebay) drive me nuts for the first 30 minutes, but if I can get past that, I forget they’re there. but that first 30 minutes is me fighting to not pull them out and just itch and scratch at my ear canal. I’m afraid that an earmold would be worse.