Poll: How Bad Is Your Hearing Loss?

I am curious to know how many people have "perfect" hearing like me, and have tinnitus.

I also would like to know how bad your tinnitus is.

I am wondering if there is a correlation between damage and tinnitus severity.

 

this is a horrible idea and we will get very inaccurate results,hearing loss doesn't just work by the ability to hear soft noises. You lose the ability to deceipher speech in complex noise that isn't measured via decibels of tonal 250-8k frequencies

 

Yes, I am aware of that. I'm just curious to know what the audiogram looked like and how bad the T is.

 

My Audiogram from October 2017.

 

Speech in Noise and Word Recognition works well to test INHC (inner hair cell).
What do you think of DPOAE?

 

My hearing is "normal", but even my ENT said I have hidden high frequency hearing loss, so I hear a constant high pitched T...


And my grandpa, who is a 93 years old war veteran, never got tinnitus... not even for a few seconds...

 

My new audiogram

 

Your hearing improved...how about the tinnitus?

 

I forgot, but i don't think it's that bad...I can still hear people talking from the next house over.

 

Looks good, not a significant change. I’m impressed (or jealous) by the -5 on a higher frequency. I’ve not been as active lately so I may have missed posts on this. Hope you’re well!

 

My audiogram is a zig-zag pattern between 0 and 5 dB, although my T made it harder to hear some tones, and the 5s are much closer to 0 then 5. I can probably hear negative decibels on several frequencies. My phone app says perfect hearing.

 

That is perfect hearing. Anything between 0 and 15dB is considered normal and not hearing loss.

 

15db is considered very mild hearing loss. but you can see the dip on my hearing on 3khz on L ear and 6khz on R ear.

 

I wouldnt trust phone apps.

 

Not by the audiologists, pediatric audiologist and researchers that I saw. Maybe it could be considered slight loss, but not mild. Mild is more along the lines of 25 to 40dB. Of course, the grass is always greener and when you have 75dB loss than 15dB would be preferred.

 

but its interesting that I have those drops, isn't it? they weren't present before.

 

I have 50% hearing loss in one ear, I think 60db from what I remember

 

it doesn't measure hearing in background noise.

The whole tonal audiogram has an incorrect way of testing for hearing loss.

 

tear down this thread, it's promotes pseudo science known as tonal audiometry.

 

I find these audiogram tests set by an audiologist rely a great deal on your attention span. If your mind wanders, you might miss some ultra soft tone that you heard but you don't know whether you did or not because you were distracted by a poster on the wall.

 

Would getting a hearing test be a good idea?I'm not exactly sure what caused my tinnitus but I would like to know if they are helpful test.

 

Of course there is.

 

Dude hush. I recently took a pure tone test and it revealed exactly where my hearing loss was and it perfectly coincided with my tinnitus tone.

 

I would do it.

 

Then long before you lost the ability to hear the pure tone you still had trouble hearing within that frequency range with background noise.

 

perhaps. I cannot fully disagree with this.

 

-Do an Audiogram above 8khz (Damage is in higher frequencies)
- DPOAE
- Speech in Noise

Even those things cant truly access the extent of hearing damage.