I was at the hospital last night because my left ear felt hot and my tinnitus had changed once again. They don't know why, and don't think it was anything to be worried about but with everything going on I wanted to be careful! Also, if it was something and I hadn't gotten it check out I didn't want do deal with the wrath of my audie
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I went to see my audie this afternoon to quickly adjust the programming on my current aids to see if it would help at all. I had emailed her while I was at the hospital to let her know what was going on, so she asked right away. She decided she wanted to do a quick hearing test on my left ear to see if it had dropped anymore. She said she was just going to do a tone test with the headphones. So I get into the booth and she starts to test my right ear. I gave her a funny look through the window and she made the motion of pressing the button (the one you have to press if you can hear the tones). I resigned myself to the testing and she tested both my right and left ear. She came in after that and said that it had dropped and then made me do a bone conducted test. That had also dropped. She then did more bone conducted testing with the other ear being masked. By this point I had accused her of lying about only doing a quick tone test with the headphones
I was expecting it though, that's what she always does haha. I hate the testing and she knows it LOL It's her way to get me into the booth I think!
After the tone testing she wanted to try some speech discrimination. We hadn't done that in a while and I knew it was going to be bad. She knew it was going to be bad too, but we tried anyway. Last time I did a speech discrim test I got 84% at 105db. This was before the new loss. I got 0% today. It was frustrating.
I am a very good speech reader though so the bad speech discrim isn't that big of a deal. It is but you know what I mean.
Anyway that is todays update! I shall keep you all posted! I can't wait to try the new aids!!!!!! One week!