Fascinating I’m 47, until last November I had super sensitive hearing. I could hear others conversations through walls and ceilings. (Not a good thing) then a virus gave me bilateral middle ear effusion and burst ear drum in one ear (luckily healed well) Since then the distance that I can hear mum talking has halved. Really frustrating as she is used to me hearing her at a large distance. Had hearing test and my hearing is very good. I’m still getting used to not being able to hear things as easily and it is weird not hearing people walk behind me. One good thing is I no longer hear others conversations through walls and ceilings. I will miss being able to locate slow dripping water leaks days and weeks before they penetrate plasterboard. Saved thousands over the years!
Interesting video. I have felt that i have more difficulties than most people in difficult hearing situations even when my hearing loss was considered to be within normal range. I felt I was always a few steps behind the conversation in noisy situations and that would raise my anxiety in social interactions. Being in a high risk group for cognitive decline, it is good to know that being proactive in hearing treatment has been helpful for self care and the risk associated with comorbid conditions. I am sure i will have questions to add for my next scheduled appointment with Dr. Frink in October. Thank you for keeping the public informed of different developments and concerns regarding hearing loss.
I’ve been buying OTC hearing aids for 25 years. Couldn’t understand what anybody was saying. I just got the Sony cre-c10’s. These are amazing. I don’t need close captioning or say what to people anymore. To program them I had to cheat a little. Don’t answer 0 to any of the prompts that ask you how many beeps did you hear. Push one or the programming will stop.
I have conductive hearing loss. Was born with a perforated eardrum. Always have a weird full feeling in my ear and moving my jaw makes it go from feeling full to empty and clear
Thanks for another enlightening video. So how can the fourth type be tested and identified if regular audiologist tests just green light the impairment? Do audiologists actually look out for it these days?
Treating subclinical hearing loss might help someone join or continue a conversation across the room more easily which helps them stay socially active. Theoretically, a person with 0 dB hearing loss can hear 16 times further away than someone with 24 dB of hearing loss because every doubling of distance reduces the volume by about 6 dB! Also, hearing speech sounds clearly above one's hearing threshold should reduce listening effort compared to hearing them right above it. I have a notch in my right ear's hearing test result around 4 kHz but the peak was probably around 4.4 kHz. Since the PTA used three tones, doesn't include the threshold at 4 kHz, and my low frequency hearing was normal, no treatment was recommended. With a tone generator playing 4.4 kHz, my better ear seemed to hear it better even with an ear plug! I tried a hearing clinic's online hearing test listening to conversations in noisy environments according to them, I had signs of moderate hearing loss. I think the notched hearing loss may have caused it. Have you tried using frequency transposition for your cookie-bite hearing loss?
Dr Cliff, Gratitude from India, learning so much from your videos, i hve few questions that somehow the audiologists near me are not addressing, can you help :) and the questions, my dad, 77, has a 42% & 46% hearloss in his ears, while all the 1.audiologists in my nieghborhood, insist on using a ric, what do you say, is BTE usuable,(he has parkinssons and finds ric fragile) 2. my budget is looow, so phonak L30 (or the waterprrof version-its pretty humid area) or signia 1AX(cant get any audiologists to show either resound or widex) 3. Real ear measurements seems to be rocket science, atleast the gadget i saw on your video, any suggestion. If you reply, thank you so much and if you dont thank you so much!!!
I lost all hearing in one ear, my GP and ENT say that all the hairs in the cochlea were "crystallized" by a cold and fell out. Are there any treatment options available in this case? I heard a few years back that stem-cell treatments were being looked at, but have heard nothing further about it.
There is a type of hearing loss where a person hears the sounds clearly, perhaps with hearing aids, but cannot discern all of the words. I get a special test for this where I am asked to repeat words. I used to rank over 90% but now more like 70%. Does that map into one of these hearing loss types or is it different?
Sounds like an auditory processing disorder? It's functionally not a hearing loss, but the pathway from the cochlea to the brain signals get mixed up which is where the difficulty with speech in background noise or additional difficulty hearing people with accents
They don't test it all because they can't - there's no current testing equipment I'm the world of audiology that tests up to 20,000Hz. Also it's not because it's the range that gets hit first with hearing loss, in presbycusis it's the high frequencies so outside of test range would get affected first and as it worsens it would fall into the range that can be clinically detected and also that the current test range is the core/majority of speech sounds so that's the main aim to establish if you are hearing speech enough
@@meric12131415Also they usually test the frequencies of the human vocal range of speech sounds because that’s the most important but really there should be more beyond that
@@meric12131415 Research shows that 16 kHz is one of the frequencies that get hits first. It can help detect early signs of hearing damage from noise and ototoxicity. One study found that it may be happening when we're between the ages of 10 to 14!
A study done to establish a threshold of normal human hearing. A bunch of people had hearing tests done and they gathered results from that to provide an average range of hesring. So the minus decibels is the ones that the standard person didnt hear, but there were still findings of a select few who did hesr it, if that makes sense
It's just a reference scale. Zero dB HL is the average threshold for the average listener. If you can hear better than average, you are below zero, hence, negative.
