Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Audiogram

So I had an appointment with an audionome yesterday and had an audiogram done. My results were sort of how I thought they would be. Almost completely deaf on my left ear. But the strange thing though, during the test I didn't really know if I should have pressed the button (to signal that I hear the signals) when I felt the sound vibrations so much it tickled like crazy, but I couldn't hear anything. Really high and loud sounds vibrations really tickles in my left ear, especially if the sound comes from head phones. 

So I sat there and cringed in the chair a bit, but still not pressing that button cause I couldn't hear the sound, only feel it. Interesting, huh? You have probably heard about deaf people that can feel the vibrations of music, and I really understand that. Every sound has it's own vibration. The lower sounds vibrates slower, and the higher sounds vibrates faster. The quieter the weaker, and the louder the stronger. The faster and stronger they are, the more it tickles. Tickling sounds, ain't that something? And that's another reason why I really hate high and loud noise.

Anyways, during the test, the lowest decibel level I could hear on my left was 83. Some sounds I couldn't hear until they were up at 110 decibel. That is loud, really loud. Like heavy metal concert, standing close to the speakers loud. Some sounds I couldn't hear at all (they didn't go over 120 decibel). Oh, and my right ear is absolutely fine, by the way. Some signals I could hear already at 0 decibel, most at 10 and one of the lowest at 25. Everything under 25 is apparently normal.

Then I had another appointment with an aurist today (constantly confusing the words audionome and aurist, but the first mentioned basically just does the tests, and the second mentioned is a doctor specialised in ears and hearing. Just to clarify). They said that despite my almost complete lack of hearing on my left, they won't give me any hearing aid. The reason they said, was because my hearing is normal on my right ear. But the aurist was gonna check with a few contacts, said maybe he could pull some strings. So we'll see, but I’m not too hopeful to be honest.

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