melissa
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...and tell me what it means- do I really have 'near normal' hearing in the 'speech frequencies' as I've been told- if so, why do I have so much trouble without my hearing aids, asking people to repeat things all the time? Why do I still have trouble WITH them? Do I have an unusual sort of loss? It's sensorineural after being born prematurely.
I've never been told much about audiograms, except that a 'normal' (my emphasis) person would be around 0-10 db for the whole chart, I think. I have looked online and know what db loss = mild/moderate/severe/profound etc.
Applying the info from here
Audiology Awareness Campaign: How to Read an Audiogram
tells me that, at the following freqs:
I am working from an old audiogram before I got my digital aids, from '98, and there is no value under 125hz. It's the most recent one I can find as anything after that would be on the computers at the hospital and I didn't get copies.
250 Hz: 45 and 50 dB (R, L ear in that order)- moderate loss
500: 30 and 20 (R/L) -mild
1000: 10 and 10 (R/L) -'normal'
2000: Above 0 for R ear (I don't understand this! Looks like it's about a 3db), around 3 loss for L ear -'normal'
4000: 65 and 80 (R/L) -moderately severe/severe
6000: 85 and 95 (R/L) -severe/profound
8000: 73 and 90 (R/L) -severe
In the background of the graph is a shaded area with different letters on- I assume this is the 'speech banana' I've read about on here. Now, seeing as my 'best' results/least lossy areas are the letters m, n, ng, aw, ah, ay, ee, d, t, does this mean that they are more commonly used in hearing english than f, th, and s where I have a far greater loss, and that's why I was told I have 'near normal' hearing at 'speech frequencies'- or is it just that I don't know what everyone else is hearing so I don't know I'm missing it?
Apologies if this is in the wrong place, but I've recently become curious about the intricacies of my hearing, and what it is that I'm not hearing, that people without hearing loss can hear.
I'm aware that this is very long, thankyou for reading! Most of my life I've tried to brush off my hearing loss and pretend it doesn't exist, but I've been going through a lot of (psychological) changes lately and I think I should start accepting myself as I am. Which requires some sort of understanding beyond 'I can't hear high pitched sounds well', for me at least.
Melissa,
I've never been told much about audiograms, except that a 'normal' (my emphasis) person would be around 0-10 db for the whole chart, I think. I have looked online and know what db loss = mild/moderate/severe/profound etc.
Applying the info from here
Audiology Awareness Campaign: How to Read an Audiogram
tells me that, at the following freqs:
I am working from an old audiogram before I got my digital aids, from '98, and there is no value under 125hz. It's the most recent one I can find as anything after that would be on the computers at the hospital and I didn't get copies.
250 Hz: 45 and 50 dB (R, L ear in that order)- moderate loss
500: 30 and 20 (R/L) -mild
1000: 10 and 10 (R/L) -'normal'
2000: Above 0 for R ear (I don't understand this! Looks like it's about a 3db), around 3 loss for L ear -'normal'
4000: 65 and 80 (R/L) -moderately severe/severe
6000: 85 and 95 (R/L) -severe/profound
8000: 73 and 90 (R/L) -severe
In the background of the graph is a shaded area with different letters on- I assume this is the 'speech banana' I've read about on here. Now, seeing as my 'best' results/least lossy areas are the letters m, n, ng, aw, ah, ay, ee, d, t, does this mean that they are more commonly used in hearing english than f, th, and s where I have a far greater loss, and that's why I was told I have 'near normal' hearing at 'speech frequencies'- or is it just that I don't know what everyone else is hearing so I don't know I'm missing it?
Apologies if this is in the wrong place, but I've recently become curious about the intricacies of my hearing, and what it is that I'm not hearing, that people without hearing loss can hear.
I'm aware that this is very long, thankyou for reading! Most of my life I've tried to brush off my hearing loss and pretend it doesn't exist, but I've been going through a lot of (psychological) changes lately and I think I should start accepting myself as I am. Which requires some sort of understanding beyond 'I can't hear high pitched sounds well', for me at least.
Melissa,