re: How many of you can't hear for shot (hearing exam / loss)?

If it involves job related hearing loss, I can answer your questions. I am at greater than 50% on my right ear and just below 50% on my left. Raging tinnitus that drives me bonkers when I think about it (as I am doing now). I have trained myself to just ignore it.

To answer your original question, the testing equipment at the big box store is the same as what you will see at an audiologist office. The difference is the person reading it and their medical plan. If you are willing to discuss medical interventions and / or hearing aids, go see the doc. If not, the test you took tells you that you need to protect what you have left. Protect it aggressively, you can’t get it back.

Funny story, when I worked for the government I applied for a job that was supposed to be a lateral transfer but it moved me across Departments. They asked me to complete a full physical, just like a new hire, at the last minute and I was concerned as I knew I couldn’t meet the hearing standards. I happened to be living in a very small community at the time on the southern border and went to my primary care physicians office. He had an old Battle Axe Nurse. She looked at the government physical paperwork and saw “Audiological Exam” and said “Hell we don’t have one of those machines”. She walked across the room and held my patient file over her mouth and said “Cab you hear me?” To which I replied “Yes” and she then told me I passed the “Whisper Test” and marked me down as having perfect hearing. I still laugh about it to this day.

For me left ear is worse than right and that is without a test.

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. According to this exam, I have 37 % hearing loss in my left ear and 31 % hearing loss in my right ear,

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bro, do you even second opinion?

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I get real angry when hearing a lawnmower or weed eater.

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I thought that was only me was kind of keeping that to myself but I've noticed that the last couple of years too, ironic because of all of the mowing and weed eating I've done, and I've always enjoyed it

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tinnitus

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fricking maddening. like an alarm going off in my head 24 hrs a day

The tinnitus doesn't bother me, but the weadeater does...

I am deaf as hell in my right ear. Too much raving at clubs back in the day. It has caught up with me

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Too much raving at clubs back in the day

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For me, it was too much Kicker 12" subs in the back of my S-10 Blazer bumping a Bass Mechanic cassette. Just nonstop bass for hours at a time, fricking stupid kid.

I lost more then 50% of my hearing. Was in a explosion way back in 1987. From that point my ears ring all the time. Had a test done last year and they told me I do need Hearing Aids. Asked them why? Told them I just don't want to hear crap when I don't feel like it.

Me...

Beat on drums since I was 12, duck hunted, in a wooded swamp, since I was 15...

Can't hear shite...