Need a hearing aid! Please help. - Hearing Disorders Message Board

spanky111 · 06-26-2007, 03:12 PM

Hello,

I have had slight hearing loss in my right ear for years and years. The hearing loss is at 4,000 hertz (I think). The only reason I know I have this hearing loss is because I take hearing tests every year and it always shows this.

I hear every other tone of the standard hearing test fine in both ears. Is there a hearing aid that will allow me to hear this tone? Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Spanky

Perspective · 07-03-2007, 11:05 AM

Yes. The thing that differenciates digital hearing aids from the pre-ditgital ones is that they can be set up to compensate for the particular hearing loss of the individual sufferer. So, if you have a loss at 4KHZ, then the response of the aid can be tailored, by the audiologist, to boost this area of the audio spectrum.
All digital aids will do this.

skyhighifly · 07-03-2007, 09:53 PM

What decibel level is the hearing loss at 4k? A loss at 4k is commonly called a 4k notch and can be an indicator of other things. Before spending on a hearing aid I would really look at whether or not you are missing speech sounds. How do your word recognition tests come out (%) and at what decibel level are they given? All my charts are in my classroom and I so I couldn't say for sure what sounds are around that level although it is consonants.

Lenin · 07-09-2007, 06:22 AM

Spanky,

With just a slight hearing loss and a 4K notch in just one ear, I don't think the benefit and expense of a hearing aide are justifiable.

For one thing, to get you amplification at the 4K mark will require mechanically blocking your ear canal and thus making it necessary to amplify the entire range.

I went for YEARS having one ear fixed and the other quite deaf and that single ear can do most everything that 2 can do...EXCEPT tell where a sound is coming from.

A 4K notch is usually caused by noise trauma, either sudden or sustained.

I don't think you'd be happy with a hearing aide.