doctorofaudiology
16 Years Experience
Marlboro, NJ
Male, 40
I've been an audiologist for 16 years. I work with all types of patients, focusing on balance disorders, tinnitus, and hearing aids. As I have worked in an Ear, Nose, Throat setting much of my career, I am also exposed to much of the medical side of audiology. ASK ME ANYTHING about being an audiologist.
DISCLAIMER: If you feel that you have a hearing or balance issue, please be sure to see your local ENT or audiologist. This Q&A is not designed to treat or diagnose your problems.
-10 dB is a volume unit. People are often under the impression that if your hearing test reveals a response of "0", that means that your hearing is "perfect". It is not. We are also not born with "100%" hearing. We are born with whatever. If a person can hear a specific sound at -10 dB, he or she most certainly has great hearing.
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When you take the earplugs out they make a loud noise? Are you constantly getting hit in the head? I am sorry, I would love to help, but I still don't understand the situation.
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Please kindly refer to my other answers above about these questions.
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If you are worried, by all means, protect yourself. I am not sure what the volume of the movies are when they are in the "end credits", which is what I assume you are referring to time wise, but you absolutely should. If you are unsure of the volume, use a sound level meter app. It could help you learn about volume. If the volume exceeds 85 dB over an 8 hour span, protection is appropriate.
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As an audiologist I cannot give a medical recommendation, per se, but given my history, steroid injections are essentially a "salvage mission". Depending on how long ago the sudden hearing loss was, oral steroids can help. Yet if there is still room for improvement, the steroid injection is a more direct approach...literally. Whereas with tablets the relief can be anywhere in the body, a steroid injection is most certainly isolated to the ear.
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The relationship with LPR...not 100% sure but if you are getting congestion through your passageways, the muffled sensation may be Eustachian tube dysfunction. ETD can result in a clogged feeling in the ear, though the clog has not officially made its way behind the eardrum. Some MDs will give nasal steroids or recommend decongestants. Please consult someone else because there is more than "just the hearing test".
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That is only one part of it. Fundamentally, the tiny hair cells in your ear age, then die. This is pretty much like a lot of other parts of the body. This, in tandem with noise exposure, medicines, health, medical conditions, and genetic create our own "perfect storm" to determine when our hearing goes.
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