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JohnnyRogue

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:wave: HELLO

im new here (24, female). My mother is completely deaf in her right ear and HOH in her left (she has never wanted anything to do with the deaf community and acts like nothings wrong :roll:). She says it not hereditary it was caused from the mumps. But there are so many times i feel like i cant hear so well and ppl always tell me to get my hearing tested. my mother always told me it was cuz she had things loud im just used to loud. i plan on seeing someone soon for a hearing test.
but can anyone who is losing there hearing give me any insight to what its like? i know it may sound weird, but to me this is just how i hear, its normal for me, but sometimes i ask myself maybe if not normal for others. :ty:
 
Sounds like your mother is in denial. Does she wear a hearing aid in the HOH ear?
Too bad she's "pushing" her denial on you by saying you don't need a hearing test.
Good for you to recognize that you might have hearing loss and will go get a hearing test.

Hearing loss is different for everyone so it's hard for us to tell you what it's like.

My hearing loss is kinda a reverse cookie bite. I have hearing loss in both the low freqs and the high freqs. This is kinda good, for me, as my loss is not too bad in range of where speech falls, so, with the appropriate amplification, my speech discrimination scores are pretty good.

Google "speech banana" to get an idea what freqs speech falls in.
 
LoveBlue said:
Sounds like your mother is in denial. Does she wear a hearing aid in the HOH ear?
Too bad she's "pushing" her denial on you by saying you don't need a hearing test.
Good for you to recognize that you might have hearing loss and will go get a hearing test.

Hearing loss is different for everyone so it's hard for us to tell you what it's like.

My hearing loss is kinda a reverse cookie bite. I have hearing loss in both the low freqs and the high freqs. This is kinda good, for me, as my loss is not too bad in range of where speech falls, so, with the appropriate amplification, my speech discrimination scores are pretty good.

Google "speech banana" to get an idea what freqs speech falls in.
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she has NEVER had a hearing aid, and ive always wondered why. ive always wondered about other deaf ppl since i was young a would ask her sometimes cuz i had a feeling there was a community out there since ppl know ASL and that we should learn it too. She never wanted a hearing aid and never wanted to learn ASL, she just seems to brush it off or says what u want to her n never LEARNS what she can do n the vibe is that its not important to her. i agree with you, she is very FAKE n she acts like she perfect. its more important for her to go clubing and partying at age 47 :roll:

but hear I AM. and i WANT to learn and understand and thank you i dont even know what you mean by hearing loss in low or high freqs so that just shows i have alot to learn
 
crackpot said:
I can understand about not wanting to be a part of something...just because you have this doesn't mean you HAVE to belong to that. I'm not big into being "deaf". But besides that it sounds like your mother has her share of issues. Do you live with your mother.

I'll echo the agreement about getting a hearing test first thing. You won't know for sure until then.
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not anymore, i live with my son and boyfriend now which is part of the reason im able to even SEE if there is something up, becuz living with her i wasnt really allowed to
 
Get tested. It's very... 19th century to feel some shame in having hearing loss. Some degree of hearing loss is present in a vast majority of adults. Just get tested.

Hearing Aid in right ear is my better half. Completely deaf in left ear. It's a choice really.
 
First off that is great that you are going in for a hearing test. Sometimes people just can't face what they have, maybe she is ashamed of it. But she shouldn't be.

For me, I would think that if you wanted an idea of how I hear....I would tell you to put silly puddy in your right ear...the whole thing just cover your ear till you can't hear anymore. Then take cotton and stuff it down your left ear until things sound muffled. (I had my husband do this because he was curious to what the world sounded like to me) And if you do that, have someone speak to you and just sit around and absorb your world. That would be the best way for me to describe it. My husband about went batty, but he really learned what it was like for me. He has always been very attentive but after that little experiment he became even more so. My hearing is so bad that I can't hear cars even if they are right beside me. And if it wasn't for my hearing dog Charlie and my husband I would get run over all the time. lol
 
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I stlarted losing my hearing in my left ear fist. I had gone sky diving when I was 20 and it felt like someone stuck an ice pick in my ear when I was in free fall, had to be the drastic pressure changes. I woke up one moring about 3 weeks later and realized I couldn't hear out of it. I used to play cd's at night and put them on repeat. I had been laying on my good ear and I was waking I was thinking...it's like I hear a song but don't, like vague melody but no lyrics, I picked my head up and I could hear the music. I kept covering and uncovering my good ear, and I was "zomg!!! I'm deaf!!!" I was told later by a specialist in Boston that I probably already had the loss just hadn't noticed it, that the sky diving had nothing to do with it. ooookkkaayyyy

I did okay with the loss in just that ear for like next 5 years, until it started going in my right. That was more gradual. I had a good indicator of how bad it was getting. I lived in an apartment building that had an intercom system and you had the buzz people in so they could open the door. When we first moved there I could hear it buzz from anywhere, then only if I was at least in the living room, couldn't hear from the back. Then only if I was at least in the kitchen, even closer to it, and then I couldn't hear it at all any more.
 
Smithtr said:
:lol: lol!! it is pretty new tubing to 6 month is replace :lol: hehe!
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ik, and I'm such a dumbass ROFL!!! I'll probably use my old tubes until my audi may give me new ones when she comes to my school or when I come and see her on the 28th this month :3
 
Sarfarigirl2011 said:
ik, and I'm such a dumbass ROFL!!! I'll probably use my old tubes until my audi may give me new ones when she comes to my school or when I come and see her on the 28th this month :3
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:lol: hehe LMAO!!! you ask on audiologist it more tube :giggle:

need to more tube new replace lol!! it is pretty!
I have experience eek on my hearing aid annoy! loud! I hate eek voice noise!
 
Smithtr said:
:wave: I hate it eek :lol: I have annoy on my hearing pretty serious! it is pretty It is interesting I have annoy on my hearing aid! :P

I figure out vowel more increaes?
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well, I'll see if I can try that but volume way up high makes me feel like crap.
 
If one has the volume up "high" than perhaps. one should be tested for a more powerful Hearing aid. Presumably the person's "hearing loss" is getting greater?
Hopefully your audi can ascertain.
React to the "new facts".
 
drphil said:
If one has the volume up "high" than perhaps. one should be tested for a more powerful Hearing aid. Presumably the person's "hearing loss" is getting greater?
Hopefully your audi can ascertain.
React to the "new facts".
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yeah but I can tell my loss is actually stable so that's not the ear itself, just the aid ROFL!!! :)
 
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