RalphVa
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- Joined
- Dec 19, 2003
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- Location
- Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Tractor
- JD 2025R, previously Gravely 5650 & JD 4010 & JD 1025R
You need a COMPLETE hearing test at a hearing doctor's office. Audiologists can do complete hearing tests IF they have the soundproof room like the one I use does. HOWEVER, they typically will not do a bone conductivity test.
A bone conductivity is needed to determine whether you might have otosclerosis, which is a cementing of the stapes inside your ears. This can be fixed with one of the very first miniature surgical techniques ever done. They go through the ear canal, cut and flap the ear drum aside and go in there and chip away and remove the cementing and replace the stirrup with a plastic one and affix it to the back side of the drum. Usually done under general anesthesia now; so, you don't know whether it's successful until the doctor removes the cotton plug in your ear canal and speaks to you and KNOCKS YOUR SOCKS off with his voice. Then you go out and drive your (sounds like) log wagon home. Then, if you're in the basement, and your wife drops a pin 2 floors above, you'll hear it.
Have had both ears done and had GREAT hearing in my right ear for about 15-20 years until it declined some. Had one of those in-the-ear Resound aids for the left ear that wasn't worth a **** until my right ear also needed help. Now have the 2 Starkey aids plus a little $500 remote gizmo to work the 3 programs on them. Can also push a button on the right one to raise volume in both or in left one to lower volume in both. This does not work near as well as the programs the audiologist has installed in the remote.
Ralph
A bone conductivity is needed to determine whether you might have otosclerosis, which is a cementing of the stapes inside your ears. This can be fixed with one of the very first miniature surgical techniques ever done. They go through the ear canal, cut and flap the ear drum aside and go in there and chip away and remove the cementing and replace the stirrup with a plastic one and affix it to the back side of the drum. Usually done under general anesthesia now; so, you don't know whether it's successful until the doctor removes the cotton plug in your ear canal and speaks to you and KNOCKS YOUR SOCKS off with his voice. Then you go out and drive your (sounds like) log wagon home. Then, if you're in the basement, and your wife drops a pin 2 floors above, you'll hear it.
Have had both ears done and had GREAT hearing in my right ear for about 15-20 years until it declined some. Had one of those in-the-ear Resound aids for the left ear that wasn't worth a **** until my right ear also needed help. Now have the 2 Starkey aids plus a little $500 remote gizmo to work the 3 programs on them. Can also push a button on the right one to raise volume in both or in left one to lower volume in both. This does not work near as well as the programs the audiologist has installed in the remote.
Ralph