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I have progressive hearing loss that is currently severe to profound. In February of this year (the day after my 26th birthday) my left ear basically quit working.
After an audiogram it seems that my thresholds for that ear have gone from 70 in the lows and 100 in the highs to 85 in the lows and 120 in the highs. My right ear remains almost completely flat at 90dB.
I wear phonak Naida hearing aids and I was really impressed with them when first got them but my left ear was the one I used to actually hear with and now my understanding has dropped off.
I'm in graduate school and applying to medical school. My hearing actually took the nose dive *right* before my medical school interview this year (sorta a funny story because my interviewer was a Russian guy with an accent no hearing person can understand. It was TERRIBLE. I couldn't understand him and I misheard some of his questions and in retrospect had some awkwardly hilarious responses.)
Anyway.
My speech scores are 40% in the left and 48% in the right which I know is pretty good but it could be so much better. I am really struggling in grad school and I'm tired all the time from struggling to hear and keep up with my hearing peers. The last time I was I school, 2 years ago, I had an interpreter (I didn't ask for one but the school assigned me one and it worked out).
I have a wonderful support system. My fiancé is amazing and has been learning ASL because after a day of class with my hearing aids screaming in my ears, I usually rip my hearing aids out as soon as I leave school. He knows to always get my attention and to re-word what he says if I don't understand instead of just repeating.
He is a damn good guy.
After an audiogram it seems that my thresholds for that ear have gone from 70 in the lows and 100 in the highs to 85 in the lows and 120 in the highs. My right ear remains almost completely flat at 90dB.
I wear phonak Naida hearing aids and I was really impressed with them when first got them but my left ear was the one I used to actually hear with and now my understanding has dropped off.
I'm in graduate school and applying to medical school. My hearing actually took the nose dive *right* before my medical school interview this year (sorta a funny story because my interviewer was a Russian guy with an accent no hearing person can understand. It was TERRIBLE. I couldn't understand him and I misheard some of his questions and in retrospect had some awkwardly hilarious responses.)
Anyway.
My speech scores are 40% in the left and 48% in the right which I know is pretty good but it could be so much better. I am really struggling in grad school and I'm tired all the time from struggling to hear and keep up with my hearing peers. The last time I was I school, 2 years ago, I had an interpreter (I didn't ask for one but the school assigned me one and it worked out).
I have a wonderful support system. My fiancé is amazing and has been learning ASL because after a day of class with my hearing aids screaming in my ears, I usually rip my hearing aids out as soon as I leave school. He knows to always get my attention and to re-word what he says if I don't understand instead of just repeating.
He is a damn good guy.