Aw man I spent a loooot of time with you and the audiologist as a kid. Myringotomy as a child left me with I think a hard time hearing and pronouncing. All S sounds where SH😅
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Wowww! One ear or two? Just curious🥰 I love audiology, I almost became one when I was in undergrad, but ended up doing speech for my master’s.
In both. I don’t remember getting them in but I do remember getting them out around 5 or 6 YO. Absolutely riddled with ENT problems. I vaguely remember sitting behind a glass wall with two buttons and a bunch of doctors would play low frequencies and I’d press the button corresponding to the ear I heard it in. Nowadays I have awful tinnitus that I can’t help but think is linked to those procedures as a kid
Yeah I think the tinnitus is definitely related. I hope it is somewhat bearable, a lot of my patients with hearing loss complained about it being awful.
How is your hearing now otherwise?
I’m riddled with some sortve condition that I am convinced is related to my ENT problems as a child. Also had tonsils/adenoids removed around 10 YO. My entire childhood was a series of infections and surgeries😂
Tinnitus is weird. If I focus on it it’s blaring. Otherwise it sortve just exists
I wouldn’t be surprised. Tonsils and adenoids are often correlated with Eustachian Tube Dysfunction. I would be interested to hear more or if you decide to do an additional ENT or audiological eval.
Have you looked into masking devices for the tinnitus?
Honestly Nos you may be able to help me because I’ve sortve been looking for types of assisted hearing aids. In some instances to cut noise OUT. In many ways I have almost “supersonic” hearing. Or something. My tinnitus is awful but I can hear someone chewing from 3 miles away.
Absolutely. We should chat because I have an audiology background that kind of goes to waste sometimes. When’s the last time you saw an audiologist?
I need to see one lol my hearing is shit sometimes. And I think I have tinnitus
A long, LONG time ago. My guess is probably 25 years ago.
That is WAYY too long. I would want an eval to rule out additional issues or at least get fitted for a device that can mask and filter sounds for some relief
I never really considered that if I had problems with my ears as a kid that I probably still would as an adult. Likely exacerbated. I’m going to look into that. You just get used to living with problems and forget that you may have options at your disposal.
I may want to follow up with you about some stuff because you’re making me rethink everything rn. Thank you for this.
You get used to it. My audiology professor put on this loud white noise machine everyday before he started class and when he was going over tinnitus, he turned it off to illustrate that even though we barely heard the noise/got used to it, there was a huge difference when it was gone.
Do you have simplex? If not you can always dm me questions
I feel that. I give so much credit to my SLP & audiologist with their guidance and education in speech comprehension and pronunciation growing up as a child with severe-to-profound post-lingual hearing loss.
Without nostr:npub1ymt2j3n8tesrlr0yhaheem6yyqmmwrr7actslurw6annls6vnrcslapxnz's SLP profession, I would’ve been stuck with having to either communicate via dry-erase marker and white board, very slurred deaf-speak, or learn to sign in ASL limiting myself to a small, isolated community within my hometown.
We’ve come a long way!
It really does make all of the difference. You’re a physical therapist! Do you practice in the US? Originally I went to college to be a PT.
Hardest achievement I ever worked for in my entire life. All I care about is that it made my parents proud.
While I received my doctorate in physical therapy after finishing the 3-year DPT program, I’m currently in the process of obtaining my license to practice in the US.
My licensure exam takes place at the end of April, so fingers crossed I’ll be practicing by the start of this summer.
& interesting! Do you have some background in fitness, healthcare, or the medical field?
My man! Congratulations to you. I bet your parents are so proud of you.
I have a CSCS, if you’re familiar. It’s through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. I’m looking to go to veterinary school in 2026/2027 but I figured the CSCS was a way for me to work with athletes without the doctoral program, if you catch my drift.
A good PT is a miracle worker. My guy fixed my knee up in a way no ortho could.
Thank you! I appreciate your kind words, good sir.
And yes I am familiar with CSCS. Many of my colleagues either came into the DPT program with a CSCS certification or were working real hard to obtain one. And lemme tell you, those guys really knew their stuff.
I have mad respect for y’all putting in, the knowledge you have, to work at the gym & educating your athletes alongside with them.
Those who put in minimum effort just talking the talk, but not actually walking the walk, really grind my gears because, at the end of the day, without that first-hand experience in the treatment/exercise plan you give them, are you really giving them the highest quality of /support? No.
We need guys like you for both the pre-rehab and the aftermath of our treatment. So all in all, we all work together and everyone wins. 🤙🏼
Man…no one ever knows what a CSCS is! Amazing!
I really love exercise + ex phys so I figured I had to monetize my knowledge if I could.
Would love to follow your journey through licensure so you should definitely post about what you’re doing. I’ll be on the lookout for your content
That’s amazing!! Is verbal speech your main language modality? What did they use for receptive hearing (devices/lip reading)?
Beautiful to hear this 🫂
Yes,100% verbal speech all the way. I was fitted with bilateral BTE hearing aids in which helped both my parents to nurture me in a verbal speech environment. Somewhere along the line, I started lip-reading (which helped my pronunciation) and using touch of others’ vocal cords to adjust my volume level in certain areas (church, movie theatres, noisy restaurants, etc).
Doing all of this helped me work well alongside my peers in mainstream K-12 education & dispel any reasons to be on the Special Education track or Schools for the Deaf programs.
Ironically, I was fitted with a FM amplification system in the classroom to help me listen to my teacher better without background noises, but it led me to depend greatly on lip-reading with my peers since I wasn’t able to switch from the FM system to my hearing aids at a whim. 5 years of that in elementary school, I kicked off my IEP/504 plan and went completely mainstream as a highly proficient lip-reader and never looked back.
Wowwww that’s a huge success story🥰
That’s amazing you were able to maintain full general education and were exposed to good strategies/as much access to sound from the beginning.
Luckily those FM systems are now blue tooth with the hearing aids so kids with hearing loss can easily switch