Hearing Test

Have recently had a hearing test is part of a doctor for the TA. Everything was going well until the hearing test. They put me on one of those old machines with different color helmet you listen seeds in each ear. I failed this test twice and had to be a third test in a soundproof booth. They said there was a sharp drop at 40 Hz and then apparently he has taken. Is it bad for a person 25 years and what that means I have heard has suffered damage from somewhere.

I think you have been warned of a sharp drop at 4kHz, not 40Hz. No standard hearing test is quite lower than 125Hz. These machines with different colored helmets can not test at 40Hz.

You also mentioned that the machine looked old. Well, by law these machines must be calibrated annually. He was probably right.

In all honesty, I find it hard to believe that your loss is entirely due to noise. You really would have had to have been exposed to a massive amount of noise for many years for this to be entirely due to noise.

I tell my patients that hearing is as vision, to the extent that some people are lucky and never need to wear hearing aids, while others may develop a loss at a young age. It's the same thing with glasses, some children need at school and some people do not ever need. It's all about your genetics. If you're lucky and have ears genetically weak, it is quite possible that you now have permanent nerve deafness at a certain frequency.

The best thing to do is go see an ENT for a complete hearing test to determine what happened in your case.

The good news is that if you need it, a modern hearing aids can be very discreet and very simply to stimulate the area that needs help.

The bad news is, according to the selection criteria you can not enter the TA.

Do not worry, this happened to me a year ago. hearing only mine was 65% lost in both ears. It seems I had a little fluid behind the eardrum and I also need tubes. I had the fluid drained and the tubes put in and I hear fantastic now. Please could be many things, just go see a doctor hearing. What's worst that can happen? If you need a hearing aid, they are so small and so advanced, people do not even know you have one. Good luck and go see the doctor ...

From what I read your question, I assume that a drop in your levels were at 4000Hz. Often, when there is a fall in 4000Hz with a recovery above that frequency is attributed to noise. That is what we call a 4K notch or notch noise. Even if you do not work around loud noise now, you have suffered damage to the inner ear of your previous exposure to noise. This is a permanent hearing loss and can not be improved with medicine or surgery. It would be worse if you imagine the exposure of your ears to loud noise again.

When a person "fails" a screening assessment, it is strongly recommended to see an audiologist for a complete audiological evaluation to rule out any serious problem. In the meantime, remember to wear earplugs while in a loud noise, like working on car engines, drag racing, motorcycles above, vacuum cleaners, concerts, etc.

Yes, it's done. Hearing tests administered different frequencies at different amplitudes (volume) in each ear. According to the frequencies you can hear, a curve can be assembled graphically showing hearing your response. Then, the tones are administered at different amplitudes to determine your hearing sensitivity. This makes for both ears to check each.

"Perfect" audience is 20 hertz to 20,000 hertz to about-75dB. Hearing damage caused by repeated damage generally higher frequency range and sensitivity decreases. sounds of weapons firing and the drum can form a notch centered about 5,000 Hz. Driving on the highway much W.