Step #2
Now that you’ve seen the Audiologist or the Hearing Instrument Specialist and they’ve given you a hearing test what is there left to do?
Talk…..
The hearing professional will discuss the results of the hearing test. You may or may not have hearing loss but you may still suffer from tinnitus.
How is that possible?
Don’t people with hearing loss all have tinnitus?
It is true about 90% of people with tinnitus also have hearing loss and tinnitus affects 1 in 5 people. What about the rest of us?
Let’s work backwards with some basic information about tinnitus.
Tinnitus or some pronounce it tin-eye-tus or tin-a-tus is not a disease but a symptom resulting from a number of causes most common is hearing loss but others are: ear infections, hearing loss, constant exposure to loud noises, brain tumor, emotional stress, exposure to certain medication , head or neck injury, hypertension, heart disease and earwax to name a few.
There are different types of tinnitus: subjective, objective and pulsatile. Subjective is the most frequent type and it is explained as hearing sound when there is no external sound and it can present itself as ringing, clicking, hissing or buzzing; some people even experience hearing music.
Tinnitus also triggers an emotional response in each individual in unique portions. In other words, tinnitus affects everyone differently and their reactions are all different. Some people can ignore the noise in their ears, whereas others are frustrated and even can be emotionally distraught. No two people are the same.
So where do you go from here?
Counselling is needed and your hearing professional is going to be able to help you with that.
Find out more next week.
If anyone has any questions, please e-mail me.
Until next time…
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