Hearing impairment history and symptoms
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History and Symptoms[1]
History
The care provider should inquire about the following:
- Duration of symptoms
- Associated symptoms
- Any things that makes it better
- Anything that makes it worse
- Focused medical history
- Family history
- Any exposure to loud noise
- Drugs patients has used in past
Symptoms
Symptoms of hearing loss also include:
- Certain sounds seem too loud
- Difficulty understanding conversations when two or more people are talking
- Difficulty hearing in noisy places
- Hard to tell high-pitched sounds (such as "s" or "th") from one each other
- Less trouble hearing men's voices than women's voices because of differences in pitch of sound
- Problems hearing when there is background noise
- Voices that sound mumbled or slurred
Other symptoms include:
- Cognitive impairment
- Feeling of being dizzy (more common with Meniere's disease and acoustic neuroma)
- Pressure in the ear (fluid in middle ear)
- Ringing or buzzing sound in the ears (tinnitus)
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Withdrawal from relationships and hobbies
- Poor word discrimination can be signs of hearing loss
References
- ↑ Nieman CL, Oh ES (2020). "Hearing Loss". Ann Intern Med. 173 (11): ITC81–ITC96. doi:10.7326/AITC202012010. PMID 33253610 Check
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