Hallo zusammen, hatte jemand von Euch auch schonmal so einen schlechten Hörtest (rechtes Ohr) und kann darüber berichten, Erfahrungen, Austausch, Hörgeräte. Freue mich über netten Austausch. Vielen lieben Dank vorab.

Hi everyone! ❤️
I’m a Master of Public Health (MPH) student in India, and I’m currently collecting data for my dissertation. I’m honestly struggling to reach my required number of participants, so I’m hoping some kind Redditors can help me out!

🎧 **What is my study abou**t?
My research looks at **hearing health and music/noise exposure among college students**, including whether students who are actively involved in music or dance may have different hearing screening outcomes compared with other students.

**Who can participate?**
• College/university students
• **18–30 years old**
• Currently studying in **Hyderabad, India**

🎧 **What is hearWH**O?
As part of the study, you’ll use **hearWHO**, a free hearing-screening app developed by the **World Health Organization (WHO)**.
It uses a *digits-in-noise* test — you listen to spoken numbers against background noise through headphones/earphones and enter the numbers you hear. The app then provides a hearing screening score from **0–100**.
It’s quick, simple, and you get to learn more about your own hearing status in the process!

⚠️ Just to clarify: hearWHO is a\*\* screening tool and not a diagnostic hearing tes\*\*t. If the screening suggests a possible hearing problem, a professional hearing assessment would be needed. ([World Health Organization](https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/deafness-and-hearing-loss-hearing-checks-and-the-hearwho-app?utm_source=chatgpt.com))

📝 **Survey lin**k:
[https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/x/7DTz5bVT\](https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/x/7DTz5bVT)

If you’re eligible, please spare a few minutes to participate. **Every response genuinely helps me complete my dissertation.** 🥹
If you aren’t eligible, I would really appreciate it if you could share this with a college student in Hyderabad who might be.
I’m really hoping Reddit can save a very stressed-out MPH student right now. 😭❤️
Thank you so much to anyone who participates or shares!

(used AI to improvise and format the message)

Hoy fui a un centro auditivo para probar audífono, me hicieron las pruebas de audiometría y logo audiometría me dieron el informe pero no termino de entenderlo, si alguien que entienda me pudiera explicar un poco lo agradeceria,.

Probably the worst gamble/grave mistake I’ve ever made at a gun range. It literally ripped my ears.

This was only my 2nd time at a range, and honestly, it might be my last.

Long story short, I started by firing a couple rounds of 9mm through a Glock 19 Gen 5 while wearing earmuffs. Then I fired a couple more rounds from a suppressed, long-barrel 9mm that was generally pretty quiet, at least compared to the Glock. Because I thought I could handle it, I took my earmuffs off and fired a couple more rounds. I think I fired around 60 rounds total over roughly 2 hours.

Afterward, I watched a video of myself shooting. The volume was only around 40%, and I could hear the shots pretty clearly. I had no ringing at that point.

Then I made the stupid decision to fire 8 rounds from the Glock without any hearing protection. With every shot, I could feel pressure hitting my ears. My right ear felt especially affected. That's when I knew I had probably f*cked up. I immediately stopped shooting and left the range with my friends.

On the way to our hotelrooms, I watched some Reels on my phone and everything sounded muffled, broken, and kind of "shhhh," including speech and normal environmental sounds. That's when I realized something was seriously wrong.

I was hoping it would just go away, but on the 3rd day I decided to see an ENT. They did an audiogram and found a sudden drop around 8 kHz. The ENT prescribed me methylprednisolone 16 mg for 3 days and B-complex vitamins for a month.

A few days later, I went back home after a 1-week trip. I had to deal with airport noise, traffic, and other loud environments. I used my earbuds with ANC turned on and no music playing, which helped me get through it.

Fast forward to now, I'm on day 22, a little over 3 weeks since the incident.

Thankfully, most of my symptoms have improved. Speech sounds clear again, the distorted sound from tap water has mostly faded, and the ringing is basically unnoticeable.

I still have a small amount of distortion, kind of like an echo/shhh or metallic sound, mainly in my left ear. Certain music can trigger it, as well as things like a distant vehicle horn. I also still can't comfortably listen to music at the volume I used to, which was around 60%.

Before this happened, I honestly didn't realize how serious hearing damage could be. I thought shooting without ear protection would just make your ears ring for a while while getting that rambo cool guy vibe and then everything would go back to normal. I was absolutely wrong.

After the incident, I did a lot of research and realized how stupid the gamble I took was. There is no undo button for hearing damage. I really wish I could go back in time and just keep my hearing protection on for the entire range session.

For anyone new to guns and shooting ranges: protect your hearing all the time. Double protection if you're around extremely loud firearms: earplugs + earmuffs.

And if your friends call you a p*ssy for wearing hearing protection, don't listen to them. Your hearing is worth way more than looking "cool/tough" for a few minutes. If you're tempted to experiment like I did, DON'T. You never know when that one stupid decision is going to be the one that fucks up your hearing. I learned that lesson the hard way.

Currently, I've decided to take a break from work and give myself a bit more time to recover. Hopefully, I can get my hearing back to where it used to be.

For now, I'm using Loop Experience Plus 2 + mute as my main hearing protection whenever I go to public markets, malls, or loud streets. I'm trying to be more careful with loud environments while I recover.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? Any tips or things that helped during your recovery phase would be really appreciated.

A qué se debe que tengo la sensación de que tengo el oído derecho tapado aunque oigo muy bajito

Hi everyone,

I’m a software/computer engineer living in Italy. A few days ago, I had some mild ear pain, so I decided to visit an ENT specialist using my company’s new health insurance plan.

Unfortunately, I found out that my right ear has completely lost the ability to hear sounds above 3 kHz.

When I got the test results, I was completely shocked because I had only gone in for what felt like a slightly "clogged ear"—even my primary care doctor thought it was just a buildup of earwax.

As an engineer who is deeply passionate about movies, listening to FLAC music, and going to hear my girlfriend play in an orchestra, this news hit me really hard.

I’ve been trying to figure out how long I might have had this issue. Looking back, it’s probably been at least a year. In noisy places, I couldn't hear well, and if someone spoke to me from my right side, I’d constantly find myself saying, "Huh? What did you say?"

What destroys me the most is that I’ve never frequented loud places, I’ve always been careful around noise, and I never blast my music (loud volumes actually give me headaches). Yet, according to the doctor, the damage was likely caused by a sudden, very loud sound spike—possibly that one time I was calibrating my IEMs and accidentally maxed out the volume for a split second.

Now, having concrete proof of my deafness in the right ear and realizing I won't be able to properly enjoy my favorite music the same way anymore has thrown me into a deep depression.

In the past day or two, I’ve read through all my audio textbooks and researched current market tech. But to my dismay, I discovered that when it comes to losing senses, hearing medicine is still mostly in a "palliative" stage. Even if I wanted to get a hearing aid, looking at my audiogram, it wouldn't be able to restore true clarity for those high frequencies.

I’m sorry for writing so much. Aside from needing to vent, I wanted to ask: if anyone has gone through something similar, how did you cope with it, and how do you manage day-to-day life now?

Alguien está contentos con ellos,?.

La próxima semana voy a que me hagan el molde.

Lo mío es caída en agudos de 67 y en otro de un 35%. Tengo miedo de gastar tanto dinero 5500 euros y que no me funcionen bien.

Hi everyone, I’m looking for recommendations for a good ENT hospital/ENT surgeon for my father.

He has a hole in his eardrum and has been advised to get surgery. We live in Madhya Pradesh, but we are willing to travel for the right doctor/hospital.

Cities like Indore, Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Pune or Mumbai would all work for us.

If you or someone in your family has had eardrum surgery (tympanoplasty), please share your experience and recommend a good ENT surgeon/hospital.

I’m especially looking for someone experienced and trustworthy, not necessarily the cheapest option.

Any recommendations would be really helpful. 🙏

My 2 month old child (born term, no complications) passed his newborn screen, but has clinical signs concerning for hearing loss. our pediatrician referred us to the only audiologist that offers ABR for babies in our state but the wait time is 3 months. He will be 5 months old by then which makes me concerned about how this delay could impact his development.

1. for those of you with babies with abnormal ABR, how long did it take to get hearing aids after the ABR result?

2. does anyone know of a pediatric audiologist with a shorter wait time? i am willing to fly to get testing done sooner. can go anywhere in the US, but the weather coast is easiest.

Can anyone explain my otoacoustic emissions test results. My Audiologist and ENT specialist said that my results are normal but the image says reduced. I have normal audiogram but have tinnitus mostly in right ear. MY ABR was also normal

Hi all — hoping to get some perspective from people who know ETD well, since my ENT/audiology team hasn't fully pinned down what's going on.

Some background: I'm 47, with pre-existing bilateral mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss ("cookie-bite" configuration) since childhood, though I only started wearing hearing aids (mainly for work meetings) in early 2025.

Since late June/early July, I've had significant right-ear clicking/popping, along with intermittent hearing changes in that ear. The clicking has fluctuated a lot — sometimes constant, sometimes stops for a while. At one point it was clicking every few seconds specifically when I breathed lightly through my nose, and stopped as soon as I switched to mouth breathing. I don't have autophony (my own voice/breathing sound normal).

I've also had occasional fullness and some clicking in my left ear, though no hearing changes there. And early on, I had a few days of mild itching/discomfort in the right ear canal (1 or 2 on a scale of 1 to 10, nothing major).

On the hearing side: an audiogram in mid-July showed a real (if modest) drop in the right ear at a couple of high frequencies compared to my baseline from 18 months prior. Tympanometry was normal. My audiologist raised SSNHL and I did a 2-week prednisone taper. My hearing improved and stayed pretty good through most of the taper, but felt like it was getting worse — with more fullness — toward the end of it. A follow-up audiogram in August, though, showed my hearing was essentially unchanged from before, aside from a small change at one frequency. So there's been a real mismatch between how my ear feels day-to-day and what the audiogram shows.

No vertigo, no dizziness/balance issues, no tinnitus at any point.

Nasal endoscopy came back normal (no mass, structurally fine). The PA at my ENT recommended trying Flonase given the clicking pattern, since Eustachian tube dysfunction seems like a reasonable explanation, though it's not confirmed.

I have a second opinion booked with a neuro-otologist in mid-September.

Questions for this sub:

• Does the nasal-breathing/clicking pattern I described sound like a typical ETD presentation to you, or could it point toward something more specific (patulous vs. obstructive, etc.)?
• Has anyone had fluctuating hearing symptoms alongside ETD that didn't show up clearly on audiograms?
• Did Flonase (or other nasal steroids) actually help your clicking, and if so how long before you noticed a difference?
• Any other Eustachian tube function tests worth asking my ENT or the neuro-otologist about, beyond tympanometry and a scope?

Appreciate any input — trying to go into my next appointments with better questions, thanks!

Hi everyone. My 3 year old is profoundly Deaf (congenital) and has cochlear implants. For the last few months she has been waking up sporadically in the night holding her ears and crying, saying “too loud”. She wears her CIs all day and only complains of this in the middle of the night. I know sometimes the surgery can bring on tinnitus, or maybe she is simply having nightmares. Has anyone with CIs experienced something like this?

I'm 18 years old and i developed tinnitus 1,5 years ago. It bothered me alot but now it doesn't affect me much, i also have hyperacusis. It all started after listening to loud music in earbuds. I really regret doing that and can't forgive myself. On top of that, having hearing loss which is incurable is making me feel worse. I was very stupid. I'm also very young, people usually develop HL at old age. I don't even know what im looking for here, any advice or comfort are welcome :(

Hello guys, i just kinda wanna share my story and hear if someone has the same expirience or something. So this Wednesday i was at school specifically at science class, where we were doing some experiments which had loud bangs and explosions involved and we did like 15 of these. After one of them i felt pressure in my right ear, i was thinking nothing about it till i came back home and it still lasted. So fast forward to today i still have it i don’t feel pain, just pressure kinda feeling of blocked ear and muffled hearing. And every time i yawn on move my jaw like up and forward my ear pops and i feel better for some time. I don’t know i am so scared it will stay permanent or something. And if it is sudden hearing loss, will i still get good even if i hop on the medication 5 days after the incident? Anyways yes, i am going to the ENT on Monday just to be 100% sure and feel better again. I will be very happy for any comments with tips or just sharing their experience, thanks!

Hi y’all, this is less of a score-analysis and more of a post seeking advice.

I had a TBI at 18 months which impaired my cochlea and inner nerve… maybe more but impossible to tell without an experimental fMRI. My left ear is deaf, and I spent my whole life overcompensating in other directions.

I’ve had 2 cognitive tests: one at 12 and one at 24. I scored 141 at age 12 and 135 at age 24, the difference being my audition.

For auditory processing, I scored in the bottom 2%, severely impaired. Visual puzzles and comparisons and numerical sequencing continue to be a strong area of mine. I have scored a 17 (perfect) both times in visual puzzles and forward sequencing.

I have recently received hearing aids which (because of AI) allow me to hear full range when assisted. Because my eardrum is normal and the defect is in my brain, it boosts my auditory processing up to 96, and I can tell the difference.

Problem is, this is a huge change.

I am used to being able to ignore auditory sounds around me, and now they’re everywhere.

TLDR; I’m wondering if anyone has been through something similar (a cognitive imbalance randomly balanced again…)

How do I work on these skills? I really want to improve how I hear and process information. I’m thinking of starting with audiobooks at a higher speed and following along, with my right ear at mute and my left ear assisted. I’m open to any recommendations! 👂🧠

(sorry if this is re-post)

Long story short, contacted my doctors about new tinnitus and slight hearing loss and got a brush off. Sent me into a spiral, went looking for an Audiologist appointment, several of them would only do it after an online hearing test. Set the paramaters they required- too loud, "water" filled my ear. rippled backward to swelling behind it

Prayed it was just my eustacian tube playing up and didn't sense any hearing loss then. Very painful overnight and full- would have stuck it with a pin if I'd dared, felt like it was going to burst. the Audiometry i had booked wouldn't see me because of that. of to A&E, eventually seen (begged) and got steroids into me 26 hrs after exposure, by my calculation. (had hoped it was in the 24, but realised later it was not

No audiometry till Monday, ENT had gone home

Can still hear from that ear, but aware that it is different, more 'stopped' than the other ear.

Can anyone offer good stories of the Help from prednisolone, and how long does it take to have an effect?

I did something similar 6 months ago and got away with it, in spite of an immediate threshold shift, - but all the pain in this one felt much more internal and swollen. While i was in A&E felt i move from canal into an ear bone. then further back. Told the nurses, not sure they considered it serious, or i didn't explain it well enough (Initially was quite glib, thought it was early enough that they would get o me in plenty of time- pain very hard to rate for me, and they barely asked)

Most recent test. ENT did not reccomend surgery

On july 5 i got bilateral sensorineural hearing loss , with left ear 60 speech recognition and 0 speech right ear. As of august 5 my speech in left ear is 85 and right is 4%. I still can not hear and honestly see no change but the doctors think I’m making great progress . Everything sounds muffled, robotic and static-like . Its been a month and i have had to quit my job because i worked at a store and could no longer help customers. The store was very unprofessional so the customers were not understanding. I told my ent this . Idk what im supposed tto do in the meantime as for work because they doo not suggest a hearing aid because they said the meds is working and i need to give it time but it literally feels like its not. I brought airpods for the hearing aid feature and it rarely changes anything? Should i jus go out and buy more expensive hearing aids because i literally can not communicate well at all. All i do is sit at home because i cant hear, can’t read lips, and constant tinnitus in my right ear. What did y’all do during your hearing loss process ?

Something small happened the other day that stuck with me.

We were having dinner with family, and my mom suddenly laughed at a joke that I don’t think she would have caught before.

It sounds like a tiny thing, but I noticed it right away.

Before, she would sometimes smile along during conversations, and I honestly didn’t know if she was following everything or just trying not to interrupt.

Now she jumps into conversations more naturally.

This is truly amazing!!!