Post your audiogram

I know this is an old thread, I've been away a wee while with one thing and another. I was finding it really interesting except I realised that most people didn't have on their profile (or I can't find it!!) what type of hearing aids/CI they wear/don't wear so it was hard to match up who has what audiogram with what they find helps/doesn't help with that, does anyone mind saying what they wear to go with these audiograms?

Cheers.
 
RoseRodent said:
I know this is an old thread, I've been away a wee while with one thing and another. I was finding it really interesting except I realised that most people didn't have on their profile (or I can't find it!!) what type of hearing aids/CI they wear/don't wear so it was hard to match up who has what audiogram with what they find helps/doesn't help with that, does anyone mind saying what they wear to go with these audiograms?

Cheers.
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I have nothing that I wear for my hearing loss. I used to have Oticon ITE's (2). ?Before that, I had a BTE that I do not know what brand or anything. Non of the paperwork is still around. I just know I had a BTE from the time I was 7-10. then, at 38 I got the ITE's as the audiologist said it was the strongest he could do that vocational rehab would pay for. At 42, the ITE's met an untimely demise due to a freak accident and at 43 I lost all hearing. The freak accident? I was changing batteries and wax guards when, with my carpal tunnel, I dropped the aids. When I carefully moved my desk chair, a co-worker heard the crunch. I stepped on one and rolled the chair over the other. $4000 smashed to itty-bitty pieces.
 
RoseRodent said:
I know this is an old thread, I've been away a wee while with one thing and another. I was finding it really interesting except I realised that most people didn't have on their profile (or I can't find it!!) what type of hearing aids/CI they wear/don't wear so it was hard to match up who has what audiogram with what they find helps/doesn't help with that, does anyone mind saying what they wear to go with these audiograms?

Cheers.
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As I am sure you know they change for many and it is good to have an aid that can meet new levels.

As for me, at this moment, I don't have aid-able hearing in my left ear.

My right ear is about 90 decibels in the higher frequencies and 75 or 80 in the very lows.

I have a Naida III UP.
 
Too lazy to post mine. I've got a "cookie bite" audiogram. Any other cookie biters here?
 
I'm a cookie bite. But what is special about a cookie bite? All I know is that it does havoc to the speech range.
 
My audiogram

Here is my audiogram:

I can hear general traffic but ironically, if standing by the road, I cannot hear approaching cars. I have often been pulled out of harm's way by family and friends. I am well below speech range. In short, I hear only very loud noises. BTW, I have only had booth tests and only 2 at that.

(It is only as an attachment because I cannot figure out how to copy on an image onto a post, sorry about that).
 

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Here is my audiogram:

I can hear general traffic but ironically, if standing by the road, I cannot hear approaching cars. I have often been pulled out of harm's way by family and friends. I am well below speech range. In short, I hear only very loud noises. BTW, I have only had booth tests and only 2 at that.

(It is only as an attachment because I cannot figure out how to copy on an image onto a post, sorry about that).
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Here is your audiogram as an image Beclak.

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MCB said:
I'm a cookie bite. But what is special about a cookie bite? All I know is that it does havoc to the speech range.
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Cookie-bites are reasonably rare compared to other types of losses, which always makes for a more difficult fit because hearing aids are not rolled out by the millions with that sort of loss in mind, they are thinking flat loss or HF loss, with occasional thought for LF reverse slopes. Cookie-bite, as the rarest, gets nary a look-in on the technology world.

Cookie-bite tends to go hand in hand with extremely heavy distortion and hyper-sensitivity in ranges where the hearing is better. A cookie-biter is the one who is going to be kept awake at night by the neighbour's slamming gate but utterly unable to follow a conversation.

It also tends to be difficult to overlay onto fitting ranges where enough power is achieved for the worst losses. Look at most fitting ranges where you need 70dB in the mid frequencies and you'll nearly always see the fitting range slope downwards so that the better frequencies in perhaps the 40s are outside the fit range. It's up to the quality of the audiologist to decide to fit anyway rather than be too conservative and leave you with a mild-moderate powered instrument to try to cover the biggest losses. Hearing aids themselves make circuit noise, and the more power the more circuit noise. It doesn't matter to those with HF losses as the noise they make is HF anyway, but cookie-biters are notorious for being able to hear the hearing aid working before the middle band gets loud enough to hear any speech.

And finally, we tend to need very expensive instruments because we need a lot of channels. There is often a very steep change and a very raggedy edge compared to someone with a profound loss but one which is constant all the way across, you can easily fit with a few channels as you are looking for similar gain in all frequencies, where cookie-biters often need to make rapid changes from big amplification to very small to no amplification, but need powerdomes or full moulds to cope with the LF gain so need to have the HF coming through the hearing aids, and then it's often too loud.

Audiologists are not fond of fitting for cookie-bites, and especially when they see mine (a fluctuating mixed cookie-bite with significant distortion and dead zones in the middle of nowhere) they want to fit me with half a Naida and half a Petite instrument. :D
 
Yeah, that description is accurate to my observation. I have only one acceptable setting on my HA's, the other just has too much circuit noise. I see that setting is a standby setting.

So the decision to go with molds rather than dome was good, because feedback is so irritating. I can't hear birds without them, though.

Then, I see that my audiogram is a smooth bite, so my theory that my ex's drag racing is a factor really isn't that important. Since I have good skills lipreading, maybe I always had it, my father had a hearing loss, but back in the 70's nothing could be done about it. I see there is a genetic component to it, too.

I am very pleased with my ReSound Zigas.ReSound Ziga - Behind-the-Ear (BTE) models Zg71-DVI

I have telephone problems, so my cellphone is a US Cellular Bliss, which has a wide range of amplification. I did have an Axle, but it was just too difficult to understand. I hardly ever use any other phone.

I got a "Personal PA" from church, which really helps me with wandering mind problems, just don't have to concentrate so hard to pay attention.

My son has Asperger's traits, and ALWAYS talks quietly, and rarely rephrases when I ask him "What", so HA's are my best way of coping with his idiosyncrasies.
 
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here's mine
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my hearing loss is also at the same state this year BUT I'm pleased with the Oticon Safari since they're made for tough cookies :) (no, I'm not a cookie biter, I'm a tough cookie since my hearing loss is stable and not going down)
 
Ziga looks good, and at last something which gives me the power I need in the mid-section without sloping violently down at the HF, I can actually overlay my audiogram on the Power version and it doens't stick out anywhere! It says they do an audioshoe for it but can't find one for sale in the UK, apparently there are "reliability issues" with some audioshoe models so they refuse to sell them. Shame, they look good otherwise.
 
Cookie bites are relatively rare. It is a mid-frequency (speech zone). Usually genetic.

Roserodent, it's a u shaped hearing loss in the middle of the chart.
 
Both of my kids have cookie bite audiograms. They have sensorineural hearing loss. Daughter is very mild and her problems are more speech recognition. She hear things in a funny way. She can hear the quietest sound both high pitch or low frequency. Son is now moderate to severe loss. His is progressing faster than mine did. I have had him tested for the same calcium issues I had, but he doesn't have that. He is just losing his hearing naturally with this hereditary loss. Seems, I am the one to pass it to both kids, but we don't know where I got it. Maybe it skips generations. Hmmmm:hmm:
 
She showed me what it did when in the ear, and it matched the audiogram.

I found out why I had so much trouble I had getting used to my Siemens in 2000!!! :shock:

Well, now I get to blame my dad instead of my ex. No anger in that, now.

I had my kids hearing tested about six months after I got my first HA's, and they had no loss at that time. I guess I will have to watch them, especially my son's lack of volume when speaking, but that is more closely related to conductive loss (he had many many ear infections as a little guy)

Yeah-- Denmark. Not so far from Scotland. Got some Shakespeare running through my head.

Was just looking at their spec charts. Should get about three weeks of use out of each pair of batteries. I'll see how that stacks up.

I see that, Rose. If you have a violent dip in the 1000 to 2000 range, their power version might be just right for you.
 
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Do you wear hearing aids at the moment, Sallylou? What did you choose? I've pretty well given up trying to get my health service hearing aid to work and will have to buy another one. The whole office specialises in fitting elderly people with presbyacusis and they don't have what I need for a more complex and ongoing loss.
 
Audiogram:

1. Otologic Medical Group, Inc. Los Angeles in 1986 (2p)

2. Kaiser Perm. Audiometric Evaluation, Norcal in 2006
 

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KristinaB said:
Both of my kids have cookie bite audiograms. They have sensorineural hearing loss. Daughter is very mild and her problems are more speech recognition. She hear things in a funny way. She can hear the quietest sound both high pitch or low frequency. Son is now moderate to severe loss. His is progressing faster than mine did. I have had him tested for the same calcium issues I had, but he doesn't have that. He is just losing his hearing naturally with this hereditary loss. Seems, I am the one to pass it to both kids, but we don't know where I got it. Maybe it skips generations. Hmmmm:hmm:
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Kristina, any family history at all? Whether yes or no, do you know if your mom was sick (flu-like) while pregnant with you? If so, it could be CMV which is hereditary after a mother contracts it.
 
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