Hi John, Scott.

Scott - you mentioned about the seeming selectivity of chemo damaging the higher frequency hairs - in normal hearing loss, it's usually the upper frequencies which go first - usually - I'm betting those hairs must be more delicate and damage more easily, than those of the lower frequencies.

John - what make and model of hearing aids do you have - I think you mentioned this before, but I don't recall. Scott also asked if you have ear buds or ear moulds. Which one? Do your aids have multiple program capabilities.
I have a dedicated program for speech and another for music and also one for noise - all at the touch of a button on the Behind-the-Ear aid. The audiologist at the hospital sorted out some of my adjustments using "real-time" measurements . . . not just for the speech program, but for the music program (it really helped me with my music production).

Other problems I have John, is that I cannot "tune by ear" anymore. The higher the notes, the less I can tell the difference between and E and an Eb - with missing frequencies and harmonics from the loss, the less tone I hear - as you say, it sometimes sounds like a "click" - no musical information at all. I'm thankful that 800 Hz and down I still hear - not well - but enough. If I had to rely on my higher frequencies, I couldn't tell the difference between a fiddle, a resonator or a pedal steel.

John - as Scott suggests, really make a point of getting in to see Marshall - he may have some knowledge and approaches your regular audie doesn't. Remember - most audies only learn how to adjust for speech . . . music needs a whole other approach.

Pulling for you, man. Remember too that UofWestern has a great hearing centre.

Cheers . . . Boo Leafs.


Ian

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