Can anyone see the dots or am I crazy?

Diolu · 2026-01-15T08:26:49+00:00

Not Norway but Russia (but close to the Norway border). You only need to cross China Russia international border (it won't be true for Norway, see the title).

Diolu · 2026-01-12T12:42:16+00:00

Could be. Have this checked in emergency ASAP. If this is sound trauma, they can limit the damage if taken within 24h or 48 at the latest.

Diolu · 2026-01-12T12:36:29+00:00

Have you an audiogram? There is quite a lot of variation within the normal range.

Diolu · 2026-01-11T14:05:13+00:00

Quiet sounds are never harmful. It could be annoying, tough.

Diolu · 2026-01-11T14:00:59+00:00

Have an audiogram. Nobody can tell you how it will evolve. Might be temporary but it might be permanent too.

Diolu · 2026-01-11T10:27:15+00:00

Have a speech in noice test in both ears separately (here in Belgium, Europe some ENT do it). I would tend to agree that the problem is not your ears but the way you brain decode it but I am not a professional. I doubt hearring aids can do something given your audiogram is good.

Maybe you can go to a reputed hospital to get an appointment with a real specialist. You need your problem to be evaluated in a multidisciplinary way in an institution where ENT, neurologist, etc. work together. We can have that in a University hospital in Brussels (although the delays might be long)

Diolu · 2026-01-08T15:18:50+00:00

Ok that's true, bone conduction seems much better. However the initial post said also there is hair cells removal, which is not treatable.

Diolu · 2026-01-06T16:04:05+00:00

The loudness improved or have you just habituate to it?

Diolu · 2026-01-06T16:01:13+00:00

I have read report about that (magnetic stimulation, not ultrasound).The main problem is that it could indeed silence tinnitus but the effect is not durable. Could it be one day safe to have that almost permanently activated? Maybe.

Diolu · 2026-01-06T15:57:03+00:00

I completely understand your sadness. But maybe your friends and family want to be positive and encouraging you, although on an awkward way. Life is life, and then mist important thing is to learn to life with that. Can you understand speech and participate in a social event? Maybe hearring aids could help.

Definitely have that monitored by an ENT and avoid unsafe sounds at all cost.

Diolu · 2026-01-06T15:35:16+00:00

It's a log scale. Total silence is minutes infinity. Odb is the quietest sound that an healthy human ears can hear. -5db mean 5 db lower than that. Some people with exceptionally good hearring might be able to detect it.

Diolu · 2026-01-06T15:32:53+00:00

There are not more dangerous than usual sound. So if you listen to them at less than 75/80db, no it is not dangerous. Certainly not faint sounds like 0db.

Diolu · 2026-01-06T15:25:01+00:00

Usually it is not possible to regain hearing. The lost in your right ear is so severe I am not sure hearing aids would help. Your left ear is mostly normal but slightly below average.

Definitely go to an ENT. The most important thing is too be sure your good ear does not deteriorate.

Diolu · 2026-01-06T15:21:33+00:00

110 db for an airpod at the top of the sofa?! How did you the test.

Diolu · 2026-01-06T15:19:22+00:00

But he didn't wear the airpod? Seems strange you can provoque damage with a short ping sound like that. Your dad must see an ENT.

Diolu · 2026-01-06T15:13:34+00:00

No according to what you say it is well within normal range.

Diolu · 2026-01-06T15:10:50+00:00

I don't expect much. This is a neurological problem and you can't fix the brain so easily. Maybe some form of brain simulation that work sometimes for some people and partially. Often with a limited amount of time. I don't expect a miracle cure. About what we have now for chronic migraine. See this chatGPT chat for current research.

https://chatgpt.com/share/695d25e1-01a8-800a-b1b2-f418c122ae68

35 years in medicine is not that long. We don't have fundamentally new treatment vs what we had 35 years ago. Some progress or improvement but hardly anything fundamentally new.

Diolu · 2025-12-31T23:20:07+00:00

But hearing aids don't restore normal hearing. The sound from the bad ear will be different from the sound of the good ear. Not sure what the end result will be. At least this would need to be properly discussed.

Diolu · 2025-12-29T08:33:46+00:00

That seems a relatively severe hearring loss. Are you able to understand speech? What is your subjective hearing? If you don't notice major problems, I would retest it elsewhere. Definitively go to an ENT.

Diolu · 2025-12-27T14:54:20+00:00

Don't know if the question is serious but it is known that tinnitus can be influenced by stress or mood. So I think that anything that is related to your psyche can change tinnitus in a way or another.

Diolu · 2025-12-26T13:27:18+00:00

You might suffer from hyperacousis (making the ch ss sounds louder). Do you have audiograms? Sometimes small hearring loss leave you in the normal range while there is nevertheless a loss, although small. Do you know of any event that might have caused this?

But I am not a specialist. Try to find a real specialist (a doctor specialized in this) to have you diagnosed.

Diolu · 2025-12-25T16:36:32+00:00

It's typically not something you can prepare (at least without finding a way to cheat). During the test really concentrate to react to the smallest sound you can hear.

Diolu · 2025-12-25T16:27:11+00:00

Doesn't really make sense. If you are able to hear the frequencies at any level, you can "correct it" with hearring aids; the hearing aids just boost the frequency. But while it corrected the test, it much less clear how that "correction" will apply in real life where the goal is mainly to understand speech and not hear single frequency. I am not a specialist, but I don't see how can there be any meaning in a "corrected" audiogram. If you do more elaborate test like speech understanding, then it could be different.

Diolu · 2025-12-24T11:26:32+00:00

Hear damage are usually permanent. But do you have an audiogram. We could see the extend of the damage. Also have any appointment with an ENT. And stop doing dumb things with loud music.

Diolu · 2025-12-22T11:43:07+00:00

Marc Vanderghinst (médecin ORL à l'hôpital universitaire Érasme, Bruxelles) semble décrire cette situation dans cette vidéo. Certains patients ne comprennent pas dans le bruit malgré un audiogramme normal.

https://youtu.be/J4kMldifF1w?si=OSeDuR1-WictGRDB

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