What kind of hearing loss would be progressive?

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Would only genetic hearing loss be progressive? If not, can you explain?
 
Usually you would think of sensorineural loss .

Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Sensorineural hearing loss occurs when there is damage to the inner ear (cochlea) or to the nerve pathways from the inner ear (retrocochlear) to the brain. Sensorineural hearing loss cannot be medically or surgically corrected. It is a permanent loss.

Sensorineural hearing loss not only involves a reduction in sound level, or ability to hear faint sounds, but also affects speech understanding, or ability to hear clearly.

Sensorineural hearing loss can be caused by diseases, birth injury, drugs that are toxic to the auditory system, and genetic syndromes. Sensorineural hearing loss may also occur as a result of noise exposure, viruses, head trauma, aging, and tumors.

Type, Degree, and Configuration of Hearing Loss
 
Deafteen90 said:
Would only genetic hearing loss be progressive? If not, can you explain?
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EVAS can be progressive. Some drug exposure can be progressive. I think they say about 60% of hearing loss never has an explanation, so....
 
I was just wondering what was progressive
 
If you were deafened by ototoxic drugs, would your hearing loss be progressive? or does it depends?
 
Autoimmune hearing loss and loss associated with Meniere's Disease are often progressive.
 
Bottesini said:
Usually you would think of sensorineural loss .

Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Sensorineural hearing loss occurs when there is damage to the inner ear (cochlea) or to the nerve pathways from the inner ear (retrocochlear) to the brain. Sensorineural hearing loss cannot be medically or surgically corrected. It is a permanent loss.

Sensorineural hearing loss not only involves a reduction in sound level, or ability to hear faint sounds, but also affects speech understanding, or ability to hear clearly.

Sensorineural hearing loss can be caused by diseases, birth injury, drugs that are toxic to the auditory system, and genetic syndromes. Sensorineural hearing loss may also occur as a result of noise exposure, viruses, head trauma, aging, and tumors.

Type, Degree, and Configuration of Hearing Loss
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I knew one guy who had a conductive loss and his loss was progressive due to all the ear infections he got.
 
I've wondered if prolonged wearing of HA would make a hearing go progressivly due to flattening of the hairlines.

It seems that most deaf people's hearing goes progressively to some degree or other. I was born with a 40db loss and ended up with an 80 db loss before it went altoghether.
 
Dominant Progressive Hearing Loss (DPHL) is a genetic progessive loss. It's what I have :)
 
dreama said:
I've wondered if prolonged wearing of HA would make a hearing go progressivly due to flattening of the hairlines.

It seems that most deaf people's hearing goes progressively to some degree or other. I was born with a 40db loss and ended up with an 80 db loss before it went altoghether.
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I've wondered that too, my right ear was aided for many years before I was aided bilaterally. It used to be better than my left ear, but now it's almost as bad.
 
I have progressive loss since I have Menieres Disease... My hearing is running away from me fast aka-"progressively" lol
 
dreama,

I asked my hearing aid audi about the possible damage hearing aids can have on one's residual hearing. Her answer was "none" unless the aids are programmed with too much gain/amplification. Since hearing aids are programmed (or should be) not to be uncomfortably loud, this is what protects one's residual hearing from further damage.
 
DeafLissa90 said:
If you were deafened by ototoxic drugs, would your hearing loss be progressive? or does it depends?
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I lost my hearing due to ototoxic drugs given to me while in the neonatal ICU.

My hearing loss was progressive. It was mild at age 3. By age 24, it was profound.
 
Do you think my hearing loss was progressive then? I am not sure.

At nine months I had a severe loss, now it is profound in all frequencies except some of them which is very close to profound
 
I was born with an 85 db loss. By the time I finished high school, I was at about 105 db. So, that 20 db more loss didn't happen overnight, but it stopped there. At least for now anyway, since it's been more than 15 years since I last experienced any additional loss.
 
DeafLissa90 said:
Do you think my hearing loss was progressive then? I am not sure.

At nine months I had a severe loss, now it is profound in all frequencies except some of them which is very close to profound
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What you've described is a progressive loss. A progressive hearing loss is one where hearing drops more than 5-10 dB in one or more frequencies.
 
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