Also new to the forum and recently received the confirmation of my hearing loss as a shock. Mine looks somehow similar to yours, although I have better hearing at 2000hz (and I am 43). Was told mine was likely genetic, and progressive. My father has a similar hearing loss that progressed over decades. Need to get my teenagers tested.
I got hearing aids, although I wasn’t sure if it would help. This is an amazing experience, to hear all those sounds we were missing! Still an adaptation, not perfect, but worth it.
It might be hard for others to understand the issue. There is a web app from the cdc (NIOSH) where you can do a simulation of your earing loss for others to hear it. I found this was a revelation for many people!
Today’s technology is on our side. The best thing we can do is get the help we need and adapt to this situation, as we would do if we needed glasses.
Hello sense you are 19 and you can get an ENT ask the doctor to do a CT scan of your head to see if he or she can find what’s causing your hearing loss at this age if you were 50 years or older just get hearing aids and run with it, but at 19, I would do the CT scan of your head to see what’s causing it. It is common to both ears, which must be a good thing since one year is not going deaf and the other one is just losing hearing, but they’re both the same. That is my recommendation. I did that and found out that there was a tiny growth that was causing my right ear to be worse than my left ear, but you might have a growth that’s affecting both ears.
Id get custom molds just to try and save potential trouble. Its only neccessary at 40db at 250 and 500 but if you are at 30 I would just get them anyway to try and avoid frustrations with soft tips
The Audiologist I saw a couple weeks back said that they try to get everyone into molds, they simply see better results. They start out on domes, but when you are pretty sure of the HA decision, transition to molds.
NEVER GIVE UP NEVER SURRENDER!!! Do behind the ear rics with custom molds hard tips instead of soft. Its odd that your loss is reverse cookie bite I wonder if the test results are tru or you need to go in and you do better on the bass frequencies. I told people expect the molds the suck* (medical term**) (becuase no one listens to the guy on the front line***) #smart keep going in keep going to different providers till its done right. Save the future frustration. You need them. Its not an option when bass is below 40db according to the “Ryans Way” process. I am Ryan. your bass is at 55 60 looks like. You need hard tips according to me and could be the reason you are struggling.
I lost alot of contracts yelling at their sister company to do it right. I am fighting for you and its costing me alot of money. Wonder if they just got transferred over instead of corrected like management seems to do these days. hahahahahhahahahhahah GOOOOOOODDD LUUCK!
My audiogram looked the same when I discovered I had hearing loss. It was 30 years ago, when I was about your age. I have also had tinnitus, spells of dizziness and serious vestibular attacks since childhood. Turns out I have had Menieres. My left ear audiogram has stayed almost the same but I have lost my hearing in the right ear almost entirely, it took only 3 years…If you have spells of dizziness or/and tinnitus you should definitely be checked for Menieres. I really hope you don`t have it! It is an unpredictable disease.
I would have dizziness (and still kind of do but not as much) when i would stand due to anemia. that was diagnosed and i took iron pills for it for a while would that rule out Menieres? i’ve heard of Menieres before but i haven’t looked into it much to see if it might be something to talk to my doctor about
You could talk to your doctor about it, just to be on the safe side.
I have been wearing hearing aids for almost 20 years, I wish I had started wearing them earlier!
About 3 months after my dispensing audi had fired me, I found a new care provider. Six months later I had a hearing test from my new hearing instrument specialist. Showed my hearing was 10-20 dB worse than my dispensing audi had reported when he fired me.
3 weeks after we checked with a quickie test. It confirmed that my hearing was worse. Another folllow-up, same thing. I had minor setup changes with each visit
The fellow that took me on is a hero. I’m workman’s comp. He can’t sell me new hearing aids. They were only a year and a half old. And they make it difficult to get paid.
He got my hearing aids and charger replaced at end of warranty. I’m really impressed with Phonak doing that.
My audiogram changed to what it is back then. Looks really strange to me. As a heart patient who knows what prescriptions I’m on. Anything could be happening. 78 and counting … Hallelujah! Still working a full day.
Nioce man. I recommend tests and resets every 6 months to stay happily hearing. In america sometimes patients go through this, find someone good then take that information to the next provider only to continue frustrations bouncing around. Keep going to the good guys. Advertise the good guys so they survive. The reason they are so expensive is the manufacturer warranty glad they are doing the work with the money! But it was the provider who sent it in not phonak for repairing what they already should. Give credit to the man! :)) Glad things are going good! Glad you found a competent caring provider. Share his name on this thread and give him credit so he can get more busines! hahah We need people pumping us up specificly not just the manufacturers they dont program them for you the provider does. Cheers mang
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your bass is at 55 60 looks like. You need hard tips according to me and could be the reason you are struggling.
We need people pumping us up specificly not just the manufacturers they dont program them for you the provider does. Cheers mang