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Hello I have been looking for some answers, and let me say I am the first to admit when I think I have jumped into something I know nothing about, and this is one of those things. Our 4 year old daughter was tested for a hearing loss, this Monday, after going to see an ENT specialist, because she failed her hearing screening for Preschool. This worried me, as I already have one daughter with conductive hearing loss, and tubes have had to be placed.
Our four year old has only had two ear infections in her life that we know about. Anyway let me get to the point. The audiologist told me that she has mild to moderate hearing loss in the low range frequencies, and moderate loss in the high range frequencies, but within normal range in the mid range. They sent the results to the doctors office, and they called and said, she has conductive hearing loss, with moderate loss in the high range. That isn't what the audiologist told me just yesterday. Would you get a second opionion if your doctor told you that they thought your daughter needed tubes placed in her ears? As it doesn't sound as though that is really what is going on here does it? I'm confused, and to say the least believe people that are dealing with any hearing loss would know,or at least have an opionion. Thanks in advance,
Valarie
 
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Most people I know with a mild-moderate loss just have hearing aids. Maybe they are suggesting it because her loss is so mild? I'm honestly not sure. I'm moderate-severe and I wear bilateral hearing aids.
 
When they said "conductive" it means they did not think nerve deafness.

Fluid might be the thing preventing conduction. If they use tubes to get rid of the fluid and it helps the hearing loss, you have made a gain. If the loss is still there you would need to look further for the cause of the loss.
 
:welcome: to AllDeaf forum. I hope you can stay and look around in all the threads here. You might learn a lot about deafness, Deaf Culture and ASL. See you around here. :wave:
 
I can understand that it could be conductive, but my problem is that he has jumped right into saying lets place tubes, with no history of ear infections, and when he looked at her ears before we saw the audiologist, he said they looked great. I did forget to mention to everyone that I also informed this doctor that when our daughter was almost 3 we received a letter in the mail stating that she had failed her newborn hearing screening(don't ask me why they waited so long to tell us). So with a history of failing hearing screenings, exspecially from birth, I wouldn't think it was a conductive hearing loss. Then again as we all know I am not a doctor, and he is. Maybe I will get a second opionion just to feel better about where this is all leading. Thanks for responding, and as requested I think I will stick around and learn a bit more, as it seems we may be dealing with more hearing problems in the future.
Mind you I did say I have one child with tubes placed already, and the last time she was tested for hearing problems after the tubes, it showed a high frequency hearing loss still, so I kinda need to learn about it anyway. Also this daughter has a twin, and they are almost 2 and neither are speaking real words, and are just now starting to make any sounds, most of it being the word um. The twins are alot like there sister, and seem to be coming along alot slower in speech, which could be from the hearing problems. Who knows. Guess I will have to wait and see. We have a person coming from the New Mexico school for the deaf, to check on the twins this next week, to assess weather they have any need for an audiologist, so I guess I will be finding out more then. Thanks again for all the responses, and I will be hanging around to read more.
Valarie
 
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