Audiologic Examination Results

Codger

Codger

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In a bunch of tests done today, I was told I need hearing aids. Duh. Nerve deafness they said. Can anyone here read these results?
Pure Tone Av. Hearing Level
R: 53 L: 58

Disc. Scores CIDW@@ (MLV)
R: 72%/75
L: 88%/75

Does this mean I have like 88% normal hearing or 12% normal hearing in the left ear? Any clues?
 
If you're referring to the dB level, this might help:
Profoundly Deaf: 105+ dB hearing level

Severely Deaf: 90-105 dB hearing level

Borderline Severely Hard of Hearing to Severely Deaf: 75-90 dB hearing level

Severely Hard of Hearing: 60-75 dB hearing level

Moderately Hard of Hearing: 40-60 dB hearing level

Mildly Hard of Hearing: 25-40 dB hearing level

Normal Hearing: 25-0 (or better) hearing level
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VamPyroX, that is my problem, I don't know what the numbers are. Some are expressed as percentages and some not.
 
Codger said:
VamPyroX, that is my problem, I don't know what the numbers are. Some are expressed as percentages and some not.
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Have you tried asking them?
 
Yes. But to quote the Warden in the movie "Cool hand Luke", (I love Mcqueen!) " Ah thank what we have heyah...... is a failure....... to communicate!"

I'll figure it out. The audiologist is 75 miles away and I cannot effectively communicate over the phone.
 
Sorry, Codger, man; all I see in your test result is a pair of boobs. LOL! However, surely, you yourself can tell us if you are 88% normal, meaning you only have a 12 % loss or completely the other way around which would give us an idea of how deaf ya are.
 
How deaf am I? Lol! Sounds like a cue for one of Johnny Carson's routines! Well let's see. I can not understand any of my 4 year old grandson's speech, except for the word "Paw-paw". I accuse my family of watching TV with the sound turned off. When the family is in the car if I turn ZZ Top up loud enough for me to hear it, the family screams and fight each other to get to the volume control. I never hear silence, always a roaring sound like a loud air conditioner. If a person talking to me is close, and there is no background noise, and they face me I can understand what they say, partly by filling in the blanks by watching their lips. I avoid talking on the phone because I can seldom get the caller to speak loud enough for me to hear them clearly. People accuse me of selective hearing or ignoring them all together so much that I am tempted to get a t-shirt made with my standard response "I'm not ignoring you...I'm deaf". I still have some hearing, and that causes a lot of confusion for people including myself.
 
Well it sounds like you have a moderate loss if those are dcB numbers. Percentage numbers from the spondee tests really don't tell the whole story.
That is not an amount of the loss you have...it's just one of the benchmarks by which a hearing loss is classified.
 
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