Ansd?

[appleeater]

So, I asked about ANSD at an appointment and the response is that as there's no copy of my MRI from 13 years ago, they'd need to do a new one before anything else. Currently it only says 'MRI was normal' in my notes which audiologist wasn't satisfied with. If they did they did anything else because there's not really anything they can do for it.

I really can't afford the travel for multiple trips and promised my wife I wouldn't accept any more appointments, so I also had to turn an offer to have a specialist program my MAs, but I am going back in a year simply because my issue isn't resolved.

But I would have liked to have known what the cause is, so that if/when a solution comes I could use the right one. My processing speed in general is pretty slow.

I had my old set specially programmed which helped a little but still not enough that I could use them on anything other than a specially adjusted quiet setting for limited periods of time so there's not much hope that it work this time anyway. Have had some basic adjustments at local hospital on the new ones.

Audiologist agreed that my difficulties exceed what would be expected for someone even when using HAs with my loss, particularly in noise, and I can't properly use my HAs because of sound sensitivity anyway. Particularly in anything other than perfectly quiet conditions and even then my hearing feels inconsistent.

I mean, I knew there was nothing much for it (my wife even said it was a waste of time/money before I went) but I'm disappointed all the same. In addition to general frustration at work and feeling stupid, outside of work people try to catch me out on what they assume is about a lie about what I can hear. I guess I feel terribly alone - no matter what I do, I'm not deaf enough to be deaf and nor hearing enough to fit in there either.