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| Serpent 2005-04-27, 5:55 pm |
| On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:34:16 -0000, RocketMan <Rocketman@hotmail.com>
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>http://www.naturear.com/sys-tmpl/door/
Greetings!
How severe is your hearing loss, and what is your hearing loss
profile?
What is your criteria for defining "good"?
Best Regards,
Serpent
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| RocketMan 2005-04-27, 10:51 pm |
| Serpent <ttt@none.com> wrote in news:3f3071t56btp7otfqpvm6mr6ejo8f20knh@
4ax.com:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:34:16 -0000, RocketMan <Rocketman@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Greetings!
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> How severe is your hearing loss, and what is your hearing loss
> profile?
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> What is your criteria for defining "good"?
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> Best Regards,
> Serpent
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How do I quantify the hearing loss?
I have been watching subtitles with TV for 5 years or so. I havent been
able to hear distince conversation from my left ear for 25 years or so.
I cant understand people in the car, or when there is lots of background
noise. All of my frequencies in the "voice range" are well below the
threshold for what is considered good hearing. I as people to repeat
themselve often, and I dont know when a voice from behind is talking to
me, althouth I know someone is there, and I didnt hear them address me
specifically.
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| Serpent 2005-04-28, 8:52 am |
| On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 01:59:13 -0000, RocketMan <Rocketman@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>Serpent <ttt@none.com> wrote in news:3f3071t56btp7otfqpvm6mr6ejo8f20knh@
>4ax.com:
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>How do I quantify the hearing loss?
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>I have been watching subtitles with TV for 5 years or so. I havent been
>able to hear distince conversation from my left ear for 25 years or so.
>I cant understand people in the car, or when there is lots of background
>noise. All of my frequencies in the "voice range" are well below the
>threshold for what is considered good hearing. I as people to repeat
>themselve often, and I dont know when a voice from behind is talking to
>me, althouth I know someone is there, and I didnt hear them address me
>specifically.
Typically, an Audiologist will give you a series of hearing tests. One
involves listening to tones at different frequencies. This will help
determine your degree of hearing loss. For example, I have a steep
drop of around 65 to 80 db above about 2K frequency.
The audiologist should adjust the hearing aids to compensate for your
hearing loss profile. After a couple weeks, once your brain" learns"
to hear again, you should return to the Audiologist for free
"tweaking" visits, for further adjustments, so that you may be able to
hear the best that you may.
Your degree of hearing loss is important, and If you have moderately
severe hearing loss as I do, it will determine what type of hearing
aid you can have. Only the Behind The Ear model is powerful enough to
allow me to hear.
Good luck,
Serpent
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| Bill M 2005-04-28, 11:51 am |
| Serpent circled above the clouds until daylight, then folded his wings and
dropped rapidly through the cold morning air. After passing through the
clouds he spiraled around the castle, then landed on the parapet. He dipped
a claw in a terrified scribe's ink, and wrote:
"What is your criteria for defining "good"?"
This is important, because it's what YOU feel is "good" that matters. Some
people need hearing aids that can hold up to motorcycle crashes, others find
that the right color is important.
Bill M
"RocketMan" <Rocketman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.naturear.com/sys-tmpl/door/
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| "RocketMan" <Rocketman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.naturear.com/sys-tmpl/door/
My reading of the specifications is that these devices are limited to about
20 db of gain. Further, they provide uniform amplification at all
frequencies to about 3500 Hz. -- no emphasis in the upper range as a true
hearing aid would. I believe it is common to call such devices *amplifiers*
rather than *hearing aids*. It seems pretty doubtful that they would
significantly correct the hearing loss you describe in a later post.
SJF
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| RocketMan 2005-04-28, 5:50 pm |
| "SJF" <SJF@nospam.com> wrote in news:Ew9ce.148$%o.6@fed1read05:
> "RocketMan" <Rocketman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns96459E65122400000TRM0000@216.168.3.44...
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> My reading of the specifications is that these devices are limited to
> about 20 db of gain. Further, they provide uniform amplification at
> all frequencies to about 3500 Hz. -- no emphasis in the upper range as
> a true hearing aid would. I believe it is common to call such devices
> *amplifiers* rather than *hearing aids*. It seems pretty doubtful
> that they would significantly correct the hearing loss you describe in
> a later post.
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> SJF
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Thanks. Makes sense to me.
RM
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