Most people suffer gradual hearing loss as they age. About 25 percent of American’s between the ages of 65 and 75 have some degree of hearing loss. There are two main factors of hearing loss. The first is heredity. The second is chronic exposure to loud noises. Working with heavy machinery or power tools without proper ear protection can contribute to hearing loss by increasing the natural wear and tear on your ears over time.
Hearing loss happens when your cochlea, a snail shaped structure in the inner ear, is damaged. Nerve cells in the cochlea can degenerate and the hairs on them can break or bend. This causes electrical signals to transmit less efficiently, resulting in hearing loss. Other causes of hearing loss include ear infection, waxy buildup, ruptured eardrums and abnormal bone growths or tumors.
If your hearing loss is caused by damage to the cochlea a hearing aid may help restore some function. While hearing aids are not for everyone they do help many people hear better.
A hearing aid is a small electronic device you wear in or behind your ear. It is made up of three basic parts, a microphone, an amplifier and a battery. The hearing aid works by amplifying the sounds you hear. This makes processing those sounds easier for the chochlea. The greater the damage to your inner ear, the more sounds must be amplified for you to hear them.
Before you buy a hearing aid you should be evaluated by a licensed physician to be sure that your type of hearing loss can be helped by a hearing aid. Various kinds of hearing aids are available. An audiologist certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing can help you shop around and find the hearing aid that is best for you. You will even be able to test-wear the device before you commit to buying it.
As technology increases hearing aids are becoming more discrete. Most are flesh colored to blend into your ear. Many are very small, making them more comfortable to wear and less noticeable by others. Some fit entirely into your ear making them almost impossible for others to detect.
Hearing aids vary in cost depending on their size, features and sophistication. The cost of buying and replacing batteries also varies between hearing aid since different models use different types of batteries.
The cost of your visits to the doctor, hearing tests and all or part of your hearing aid may be covered by your private health care plan. Medicare does not cover hearing aids however Medicaid often helps pay for children’s hearing aids.
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Help answer the question about Hearing Aids
Hearing aids?I go to college like a normal girl..
->I try to follow in the class but cannot grasp some of the words which make me a failure.
->I get less marks in the class.
->This makes me lose interest and I try to bunk the class regularly.
I want to live a life of a normal girl..is it possible???
some people does not reply to me more than once and easily get irritated..I also like a person and will he like me??
I think I am getting metally ill..I want to come up in life.
Please help.
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Gemma-Leigh Garner is a freelance copywriter and blogger that writes on many different health subjects such as the causes of hearing loss and how hearing aids can help you if you have a hearing condition.
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I have 2 children w/ Sensorineural hearing loss. They both wear hearing aids. It is kind of a misnomer (named wrong) because it isn't acutally a loss, they never had it to begin with. Most likely something they were born with, something in their ears never developed correctly.
I shot a .50 caliber rifle next to a huge steel building in 94 .I blew out my right eardrum .My hearing gradualy returned but I still have problems hearing
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most adults start losing some level of vision around age 40 due to the cornea getting thicker- thats normal
you might have allergies which can cause increased fluid behind the eardrum ( causing hearing issues)
he ordered a MRI to rule out any growth, abnormalities
Your physical health overall isn't going to effect your hearing but ear infections can be cured without antibiotics too I heard, so anything is possible.
Yes meningitis can cause hearing loss. Meningitis is what made me deaf when I was 2 years old (I'm now 21).
Best thing you can do is to find an audiologist (they're more qualified when it comes to hearing loss and diagnosing it). They can test your hearing and figure out how much of a hearing loss you have, and can help you find the right hearing aids to help you hear. There's different styles of hearing aids available (behind the ear, in the ear, completely in the canal), and different types (analog, digital), and even different colors. You can even have trials with different kinds of hearing aids too, to find which one would be the best for you.
Don't think of hearing loss as a bad thing. Sure, it's difficult at times to make sense of what someone is saying, especially when there's stuff going on (noise or other conversations). But it's not the end of the world. Trust me on this. And as for being a high school student, I never had any issues with people making fun of me, and my hearing loss was NOTICEABLE since I wore FM systems in school to help me hear even better (of course, now there's better technology out there so FM systems are being made much smaller and so on). Sometimes it helps if everyone were more educated about deafness/hearing loss. People who don't know about it, they tend to assume things and even make fun. But usually people who KNOW about it and are educated, they won't bother you about it. That's what I've noticed while growing up and going through the public school system.
http://www.hearingexchange.com is a good website to find resources on hearing loss and such. They have a list of different websites where you can find information, and even a messageboard to post questions on.
Also, if you need more information on meningitis, you can go to these sites: http://www.meningitis-angels.org
http://www.nmaus.org/
http://www.musa.org/
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why are you asking us? talk to your bloody CO.
To answer your question – Yes! People with mild degrees of hearing loss do use hearing aids/devices. From the brief history you give it sounds like you may have a high frequency hearing loss in which you will find that you hear things, but have difficulty understanding speech in certain situations. Usually female voices, children's voices are difficult to catch every word they say. You will get bits and pieces. This will be evident for all voices when you are in background noise situations – the more noise, the less you catch the conversation successfully.
Your first step is to have a complete audiological evaluation with an audiologist. Once you have a clear idea of the nature and degree of your hearing loss then you will be presented with your options. Most high frequency and other mild hearing losses are being fit VERY VERY successfully with "open fit" devices. This is a very small device that sits on top and back of the ear with only a very thin wire with a speaker in the ear canal. They are very comfortable to use, very inconspicuous and depending on the technology that you opt to use are extremely beneficial in the more challenging background noise situations. Check out Oticon Delta 8000 (www.oticonusa.com) or the Oticon Epoq XW (if you would like to utilize the state of the art technology which includes BlueTooth Streaming to your BlueTooth cell phones!!)
To answer your second question about problems caused in your lifetime. Your particular problem can be helped, if you don't choose to use hearing aids it is a quality of life issue. If you choose to improve your quality of communication then you should absolutely pursue this NOW. Depending on what employment situation you are in it may affect your performance and, therefore, future opportunities for advancement. For example, if you rely heavily upon your communication abilities to sell and work with clients you may be adversely affected on the job by your hearing loss. If you are married and you are having difficulties communicating it does affect both of you – not just the hearing impaired person.
I would say, go for the test first. Find out your options and go from there.
Good luck
I wear a hearing aid and this past November began experiencing some random jaw pain. After a couple of doctor's visits, I found out that I was allergic to one of the synthetic materials my hearing aid was made out of, thus causing the pain.
If your relative wants to skip all of the in between doctors, just check out an allergist!
Good luck