Hi.
Please can someone give me advice?
I'm severely deaf in both ears and have been wearing hearing aids since I was nine years old. I was diagnosed with mild hearing loss (progressive) when I was young but since then, it's deteriorated.
For the past three years, my hearing has slowly become more and more muffled and distorted to the point where I can only hear sound in my right ear with my hearing aid. I can't hear speech and the sounds are like vibrating noises. It's gradually started to happen to my left ear too. It's at its worst when there are lots of people talking and/or background noise because everything sounds muffled and the distortions make it almost impossible for me to hear. I'm having to rely on sign language a lot more to get around too.
I'm having difficulties with an audiologist who comes from a major hospital to see me once a week at school (I go to a special school which has its own audiology team). She has seen me four times for about 10-20 minutes each time and is convinced that what I'm experiencing is entirely psychological. She refuses to listen to me and is very dismissive. I don't think that it's psychological as it has been getting progressively worse over months and stress doesn't affect it etc. The audiology team at school have tested my hearing aids but they are working fine, so are baffled.
Because my hearing has gotten worse over the summer holidays, I'm thinking of seeing audiology again but do not want to have to put up with the audiologist who comes in. I'm stuck and I don't know what to do
Please can someone give me advice?
I'm severely deaf in both ears and have been wearing hearing aids since I was nine years old. I was diagnosed with mild hearing loss (progressive) when I was young but since then, it's deteriorated.
For the past three years, my hearing has slowly become more and more muffled and distorted to the point where I can only hear sound in my right ear with my hearing aid. I can't hear speech and the sounds are like vibrating noises. It's gradually started to happen to my left ear too. It's at its worst when there are lots of people talking and/or background noise because everything sounds muffled and the distortions make it almost impossible for me to hear. I'm having to rely on sign language a lot more to get around too.
I'm having difficulties with an audiologist who comes from a major hospital to see me once a week at school (I go to a special school which has its own audiology team). She has seen me four times for about 10-20 minutes each time and is convinced that what I'm experiencing is entirely psychological. She refuses to listen to me and is very dismissive. I don't think that it's psychological as it has been getting progressively worse over months and stress doesn't affect it etc. The audiology team at school have tested my hearing aids but they are working fine, so are baffled.
Because my hearing has gotten worse over the summer holidays, I'm thinking of seeing audiology again but do not want to have to put up with the audiologist who comes in. I'm stuck and I don't know what to do
