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No one likes to repeat themselves, apparently
Hearing Loss | Last Active: Nov 27, 2023 | Replies (65)Comment receiving replies
For some of us, it's far more than simply not hearing: it's hearing that someone is speaking, but not being able to decode what's being said. Some of us have, in addition to low levels of hearing, distortion. That's really hard to explain, especially since it doesn't make good sense to me, the person who has it! Between recruitment and distortion, hearing loss isn't really the problem. Fortunately, both are not as bad as they were before I was able to get on a good hormone replacement program, but they're still present.
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Basically, that is what sensorineural hearing loss is...distortion. We can hear but we cannot understand. We have trouble with speech discrimination rather than loudness. With conductive hearing loss, the volume is often the problem, which is why hearing aids can help conductive hearing loss better than SNHL. The majority of hard of hearing people have a combo of these two types of HL, It usually starts with SNHL, and over the years it starts being conductive (volume related) as well. SNHL begins when the hair cells in the cochlea (inner ear) start to die off, one level at a time, over time. Conductive HL is middle ear related. Cochlear implants bypass the cochlea to stimulate the auditory nerve directly....which is why they are so successful. How many of you were told at one time that your auditory nerve was 'dead'?