amonkie

I have nerve damage/hearing loss due to Spinal meningitis.

Digital hearing aids remove a little of the volume crutch, as there is no longer a volume switch that can be manipulated by you - it must be done at the Audio Dr. office.


If these questions are personal and you'd feel more comfortable taking this to a PM, feel free. But other questions:

Is the hearing loss low frequency (bass level noises) or high frequency (more piercing sounds)? Even if you don't know the technical part of the range you're in, where do you feel you can't hear as well as you used to? Do you all of the sudden not hear the phone ring, or not hear a knock at the door?

Do they have several tests, spaced several months apart, to help guage your consistent hearing response levels? I know as a kid I "heard" sounds at times simply due to the nature of the test setup. As I've gotten older, on paper my hearing has declined a small degree, but the points that are driving the change are the borderline points where I only showed reaction to the noises on a sporadic basis.

__________________
Calling from deep in the heart, from where the eyes can't see and the ears can't hear, from where the mountain trails end and only love can go... ~~~ Three Rivers Hare Krishna