Mark Lanctot Wrote: > You may want to consider getting tested. Hearing loss is usually > gradual and progressive and your brain adjusts to it so you don't > notice it. Unless you get very-noticeable tinnitus as mentioned by > jmpage2 and aubuti, you may not realize how much hearing loss you've > incurred. > > High-frequency hearing is the first to go. A cheap (free!) test is: > can you hear the HF whine of a CRT TV? I think that's about 16-18 kHz > and it's quite quiet. If you can hear it from several feet you've > probably still got fairly good hearing.
Interestingly enough my hearing loss is not severe, but I am very susceptible to tinnitus. When they tested my hearing it was quite good other than a dip in the left ear around 7khz. Unfortunately since I am apparently pre-disposed to tinnitus it means that over time as natural age related hearing loss occurs the tinnitus will probably only get much worse. -- jmpage2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jmpage2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21414 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
