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Nice link.🙂

I have no hearing loss. I SAY, I HAVE NO HEARING LOSS ! 😱

Rob
 
:D Correctomundo !! :D

Rob
 
I had all sorts of tests not long after diagnosis because the Tinnitus was driving me nuts. I've had it for many years as a result of Meniere's but at the time it was particularly loud. I still have it but I'm too busy now to listen to it, apprarently that does make a difference. Luckily for me, the hearing tests showed I haven't gone completely deaf, just doolally.
 
Phew, neither have I, apparently.

And strangely neither has Pete when he has it done at work but he can't hear anyone who speaks behind him and also misses it from the sides half the time, so I dunno how they work that one out. Why he imagines his hearing could be perfect when he spent so many years out in fields with a shotgun and a trained spaniel, or at gun clubs smashing clay saucers - I shall never know!

Still my first husband was exactly the same - so I'm quite used to it after 40 years!

And I don't think I'd wish tinnitus on my worst enemy after listening to some of that (had to turn it off, couldn't bear it)

Very very interesting though because I've never seen that link before .......

(Name of the first site made me cringe though!)
 
Thought I had better do the online hearing test as I put the link forward.

My hearing is fine. The tinnitus noises are something else, what a dreadful complaint.😱
 
I passed the test too, despite not hearing all 3 numbers in most of the test.
Tinnitus has plagued me too for many years, result of ill spent youth:D
 
Hmm the test say that I may have hearing loss see doctor
 
"Your result suggests you do not have a hearing loss"

I didn't hear all of the 3 numbers. I have noticed since I had the stroke I can't hear as good in my right ear, this is the side I use the phone and it doesn't sound as loud as my left ear. I see my GP next week so will ask her about it.
 
I'M DEAF IN ONE EAR AND BLIND IN THE OTHER 😱

All joking aside, I have hearing aids (2) never associated Type 2 and hearing loss.

I have scaley skin in the ears and other parts of the body, they mentioned it could be ...

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There are a number of ways the ears can be affected by diabetes, and hearing loss is frequently the result. Diabetics tend to have a lack of keratin protein which forms a protective layer within the ear canal, enabling wax to travel outwards, and preventing over stimulation of the ear canal tissue. Absence or abnormal levels of keratin protein can lead to hearing problems.

Diabetes can also lead to hearing loss as it causes deterioration of the epithelial tissue in the ear canal. This can make the ear canal overly sensitive to the type of plastics commonly used in hearing aids, and can cause yeast, fungus, irritation and infection within the ear, particularly when the air circulation is limited by a hearing aid.
 
For about 4 maybe more years I have had mega itchy ears, I have even made them bleed. My GP asked if I was putting anything in my ear as she could see where I had cut the skin. I thought it was linked to allergies, as I take an antihistamines all year round, and summer months they itch more.. When I saw my GP about it again she had a good look and told me I have excema as you just go in to the ear canal, that doesn't surprise me as I have suffer from excema since I was a baby and over the years I have had it on most of my body. She prescribed me some hydrocortisone cream which works :D
 
I don't have a hearing loss apparently but I'll admit that I struggled to hear some of the numbers.
That was a very interesting link.
 
squidge63 said:
For about 4 maybe more years I have had mega itchy ears, I have even made them bleed. My GP asked if I was putting anything in my ear as she could see where I had cut the skin. I thought it was linked to allergies, as I take an antihistamines all year round, and summer months they itch more.. When I saw my GP about it again she had a good look and told me I have excema as you just go in to the ear canal, that doesn't surprise me as I have suffer from excema since I was a baby and over the years I have had it on most of my body. She prescribed me some hydrocortisone cream which works :D
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SNAP ...thats what they have told me !!
 
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