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Hi,

I'm here to try to help my mom, who was recently diagnosed with profound hearing loss in both ears, due to nerve damage. Currently, she is treated with Predisone, but overall sense is that there is no recovery.

She is 72yo, and her audiogram shows that higher frequencies are in the severe range, while lower frequencies are in profound range.
This is where we are standing at, at this point.
She can hear hand clap and finger snap from 6ft distance and they sound realistic to her. She can hear music on 100 dB SPL, but can't recognise any instruments. Also, while we were at doctors, she tried amplificator that looks like black box with microphone attached to it, and regular headphones. Using that we were able to carry conversation.

We did not have appointment to try out HAs yet, but I'm the person who will guide her thru it, but my experience in this area is very small.

If you guys can help me to sort out and give some ideas what the realistic expectations are with hearing aids, that would be really appreciated.

Thanks,
Ed
 
:welcome: to AllDeaf forum. You have to take her to the audiologist for her hearing test to find out her graph of the hearing loss and then will fix her with hearing aid. That is the only way she can get her hearing aids. When you described that she can hear hand clap and finger snap away from 6 feet. That might be mild hearing loss which is my guess. I may be wrong. I am Deaf from birth and I am 62 years old. I have an hearing aid on my left ear (profound hearing loss) and totally deaf on my right(could not wear hearing aid, because I could not hear nothing). Every hard of hearing person and also deaf person have different degrees of hearing loss and they all go to audiologist to get hearing tests whether they can wear hearing aid or not, even Cochlear Implant (CI).

I hope you enjoy reading and posting all the threads here. Have fun with us. See you around. :wave:
 
Hello and :welcome: to AD! I'm sure this forum will help and guide you in the right direction with insightful information. :)
 
Hi there, welcome to AD.

A place you might want to check out is the Canadian Hearing Society. They have a website if you want to check them out.


Cheers.
 
:welcome: to AllDeaf. I hope ya will enjoy posting and reading. :)
 
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