psychotropic
Well-Known Member
I wrote the post below in Suri's thread on "my experiments with truth" but apparently I can't reply to it because it is more than 165 days old! Anyway here it is.
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I fished this thread out because I went to an ENT today and got an audiogram done, and that has revealed that I too have "minimal to moderate sloping sensorineural hearing loss" with a greater loss in the high frequencies in my right ear, my left ear is better but not by a long way.
Speech frequences have only mildly been affected so far and my 'pure tone average' for the right ear is an 18.3 dB (about 4.95% hearing handicap) and for the left ear is 15 dB (normal).
but my thresholds for the higher frequencies especially the 4 - 8 khz is a pretty gloomy 50 dB or thereabouts in both ears...no wonder i can't hear a digital thermometer beeping in my own mouth! From some reading it seems this 4khz and upwards loss is often 'noise-induced'....so i am guessing the years of loud rock music and the briefer period of time spent playing with my band in that tiny jam room must have had some impact.
Thought I'd put these numbers out here and compare with anyone else who'd had an audiogram done.
Yes, I'm only 28 years old.....woe is me etc., etc., but like Suri said, I can now feel a kinship with Beethoven. The doc has advised to strictly stay away from headphones/earphones and to listen to music only at low volume levels.
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I fished this thread out because I went to an ENT today and got an audiogram done, and that has revealed that I too have "minimal to moderate sloping sensorineural hearing loss" with a greater loss in the high frequencies in my right ear, my left ear is better but not by a long way.
Speech frequences have only mildly been affected so far and my 'pure tone average' for the right ear is an 18.3 dB (about 4.95% hearing handicap) and for the left ear is 15 dB (normal).
but my thresholds for the higher frequencies especially the 4 - 8 khz is a pretty gloomy 50 dB or thereabouts in both ears...no wonder i can't hear a digital thermometer beeping in my own mouth! From some reading it seems this 4khz and upwards loss is often 'noise-induced'....so i am guessing the years of loud rock music and the briefer period of time spent playing with my band in that tiny jam room must have had some impact.
Thought I'd put these numbers out here and compare with anyone else who'd had an audiogram done.
Yes, I'm only 28 years old.....woe is me etc., etc., but like Suri said, I can now feel a kinship with Beethoven. The doc has advised to strictly stay away from headphones/earphones and to listen to music only at low volume levels.