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How can you hear 800hz - 1600hz with complete hearing loss?

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buzneg:
I was diagnosed with "no usable hearing" remaining on my left side due to an AN.  But in hearing tests by audiologists at the ENT office and at a hearing aid place, I heard something on my "deaf" side at one isolated frequency.  The ENT's audiologist blew it off and put me down as a "baseline of zero" (?) and when I asked the guy at the hearing aid place how could I have heard something on my deaf side, he never elaborated as his motivation was to get back to trying to sell me a hearing aid for $1500 more than was advertised.

So I did one of those online hearing tests on YouTube and sure enough... around 800hz to around 1600hz... I heard the tone.  Obviously that is not enough to be of any benefit unless I want to compete with German Shepherds on hearing fax tones and dial up internet boot-up tones.  Yet, neither audiologist was willing to talk about it.   I know there is an article out there called "Usefulness of 1000 Hz Tone-Burst-Evoked Responses in the Diagnosis of Acoustic Neuroma" but have no idea what it meant.

Anybody?  ???

Blw:
Very good ENT's will test your hearing through the bone. You will pick up sound through your skull even if your hearing is gone. Bone Anchored Hearing Aids use that principal. I think one of the tests is that they will put an ear bud in the bad side and run static through it along with test sounds that you will have to respond to. They also will put a sound device outside your ear (behind, I think) and run sound through that. It depends on the ear clinic. We have a very big one here in San Antonio and they'll run every possible test on hearing, and a few experimentals. They also do balance testing with a spinning chair and movable floor, warm water in your ear, etc. Very thorough.

ANSydney:
If you try to use a phone in your poorer ear, what do you hear?

buzneg:

--- Quote from: ANSydney on October 04, 2018, 08:49:36 pm ---If you try to use a phone in your poorer ear, what do you hear?

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Nothing.  Zero.  Zilch.

ANSydney:

--- Quote from: buzneg on October 05, 2018, 12:17:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: ANSydney on October 04, 2018, 08:49:36 pm ---If you try to use a phone in your poorer ear, what do you hear?

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Nothing.  Zero.  Zilch.

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That doesn't sound like a hearing aid would do anything fore you.

Why not get the hearing aid place to give you a trial unit. If it works, buy it, otherwise return it.

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