From the article: Articles - Hearing Loss - Causes
So many things cause hearing loss that it is impossible for About.com Deafness to cover them all. Some of the more common causes of hearing loss include meningitis and cytomegalovirus. What caused your hearing loss or your child's hearing loss? What was the first thing you or your parents did about it? If there were other conditions in connection with the hearing loss, how did you or your parents deal with them? Tell What Caused It
What caused my hearing loss
- When I was diagnosed back April this year, my audiologist wasn't too certain about the cause of my loss. I was told that I have a progressive sensorineural loss that is worse in my right ear and that most of the loss is in the higher frequencies and that ties in with the problem I have with hearing and understanding conversations where there is background noise (bars, restaurants, traffic noise and so on). My audiologist thought that with my history of going to discos in the 70s, clubs etc along with listening to music through headphones and such may have contributed to my loss and probably meant that I was going deaf sooner than I might have done without those things. Following the diagnosis by my audiologist I was fitted with a hearing aid for my right ear and this has been a help, so has going to lip-reading classes, but 6 months later I think that I'm going deaf in my left ear and I'm seeing my audiologist again shortly to see if I need a hearing aid for this ear as well.
- —ians1958
hearing loss
- Meniere's disease is the main cause of my hearing loss.
- —Guest Jim
The Deaf Gene
- You can read about my family's gene here: http://deafmomworld.com/the-deaf-gene/ We were the first US family identified with this gene.
- —Guest Karen Putz
Deaf Origin
- Combination active Alport Syndrome, series of high fevers as a child, pisspoor failed operations to insert ear Tubes. First thing my parents did, or rather..my Father, was ignore the issue..Treat me as a Hearing individual, I had a mouth, so I was "taught" to use it I never received hearing aids until after the Divorce, w/o getting into gritty Detail, Once I got suitable help, I taught myself rudimentary ASL, by my mid-teens I was pretty adept at Speech-Reading, with hearing aids, my grades improved 10-fold. My speech therapist highly recommended ASL, but I always found road-blocks in Learning, and I know very well that ASL from a Book is not quite up to par with actually learning in a Class or Socially. I'm stuck between worlds.. Deaf culture, and Hearing.. I can't understand the Hearing most of the time, and they lack patience to help.. I can't understand Much within Deaf community, My ASL is rusty, and they too sometimes lack patience and understanding.
- —Guest Elijah Betancourt
