I have my first audiology appointment on the 4th and I’m nervous about hearing what I’ve already known all along. The nature of my job required that I use headphones, so I know it’s becaue of that, and I will get compensated accordingly, but I wonder if my hearing loss will only get worse, or if it will stay at what it is. What kind of hearing aid did you use? Any suggestions for the future? (I don’t listen to loud music, in fact, I prefer silence =)

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what i mean is, since dispatchers work all day with their headsets to talk on the two-way radio do they get hearing loss from it?

Sometimes I kinda cup my arm/hand while showering to get water to rinse my ears but once in a whle a little jet/stream from the shower head aims into an ear and obviously it’s loud and feels a bit like water. Does that when it happens a few times cause damage/hearing loss or am I fine?

I would like to ask does excessive listening to ipod earbuds or with medium volume, slightly higher than the minimum 60db, make you loss your hearing? or make your ear hurt?
i mean i notice this morning my ear hurts a little, though not ringing. I don’t know if this is because i listened to ipod earbuds 3-4 hours a day.
how may i know if i am having noise hearing loss to my ear?
thanks in advance

I was born with a slight hearing loss but otherwise haven’t noticed it much. I was wondering if that disqualifies you? I’m not sure exactly how much loss there is but the most effect it’s had is I might not understand what someone says if I’m not paying attention to them, and when I was younger my parents were worried and decided to get me hearing aids but I never wore them at all.

Anyone with unilateral hearing loss how do you manage?

I got treatment from a specialist doctor about a year ago and experience alot of improvement but i decided to stop becuase I detected to had high blood preasure as a result of the drugs. So I became afraid. What is bothering me the most is the connection the pain has with eating onions, tomatoes, unripe fruit, etc. I normally have pain but the it increases any time I take food that contains the aforementioned things. The hearing loss increases and it seems there is a swoling in my ear.

I am not totally deaf/blind. But I am blind in one eye and my ‘good’ eye only correctable to 20/40 in my left eye. Unfortunately, my left ear is 80% deaf. So I see from my left eye and hear from my right ear. People with hearing difficulty use their vision to help them. People who have low vision often use hearing to help them. I have difficulty doing either. Because of the combination of losses. But since I am not totally either I haven’t been able to find others like myself.

I have had a cookie bite hearing loss in both ears since birth. My mother was told I may be totally deaf by the time I turned 30. I am now 24 and my hearing has definitely deteriorated and I have had to ‘upgrade’ to more expensive hearing aids! My right ear is worse than my left. My question is what do you think the chances of me becoming completely deaf are? I have done so much research on this but haven’t been successful in finding an answer.
Thank you.

i am planning on having a baby with my girlfriend after we get married..she has perfect hearing but i was born with hearing loss and im hard of hearing meaning i always wear hearing aids to help me hear..Does this mean our baby will also be hard of hearing or deaf?