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How does hearing loss change you?

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@nurseheadakes

You know I do hear much better on FaceTime than regular...I did check my iPhone and saw that I do have the LTE on. But I bet my mom's iPhone is not on it. So, I sent out an email to the siblings telling them about this next step so we can all talk better on the phones with each other. (and not get interrupted and I can hear better with them!) YEA!
My daughter inherited the migraines from me - it runs in our family. There are a number of genes that we carry in the genone for the hearing loss and unfortunately she has them as well. We have the cluster type predominately. She also has the hormonal. I never had those kinds. Yes foods were my worse enemies for me but not for her. She is starting on medications now with a new neurologist. She is on Step 1 of the Three Steps to gaining control of one's migraines.
My daughter claims she doesn't have much hearing loss or tinnitus or anything like her mother...just the infertility and migraines. (she was our miracle baby - another long story for another day)
There are many hearing aids on the market now and they all work for the various hearing losses that are out there. The manufacturers make them to be customized to the consumer. The Audiologist help to do that when the consumer comes in for their hearing tests and when they ask for what they want the aids to do for them. These aids are computers and they can do many more things now than they use to....its amazing when you think of it. Mine are $6000 and add the $1000 iPhone and I have a mini computer working in my head so I can hear and talk.

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@nurseheadakes My daughter also inherited migraines from me. When she has one she sometimes call, talking can actually be soothing at times. I always so bad because I know they are in the genes I gave her, and my mother gave to me.

Her hearing loss and mine are opposite though. My hearing was phenomenal when I was young, the loss started in my late 50s. I am wondering now, after reading some of these posts, if ibuprofen could have contributed to it. I had a doctor back then that had me on nine ibuprofen a day.
As I mentioned, I recognized that she had a hearing loss before her doctor did since she would peer at me and say "WHAT?". Her pediatrician said her mind was probably operating on a different level because she was very intelligent and had an active brain, but a mother knows. Fortunately, when she did get diagnosed at age 4 the speech and language tests came back well over age level -- I guess I must have been talking pretty loudly.
JK