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I use this one and the graphs are nearly identical to the ones I get from my ENT. The curves match but the actual values (hz/dB) differ.
I think that app is good for identifying changes in hearing as long as you are consistent with how you take the test, same headphones and environment each time.
Well if you would to refer to this audiogram yes.. But since this is an app (I pressume) it's hard to tell if you really have some hearing loss. Apps need proper calibration for them to work right. I would advise you to go to an Audiologist and get a proper hearing test bc only they (in most cases) can tell you if you have a hearing loss. Eventually ,when you have your proper results, you can track you hearing by doing various hearing tests at home to see if your performance diminishes or if it stays stable. I would higly recommend this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobile.eaudiologia
I dont know if it's available for apple too. Use the original headphones which came with the phone if possible.
Following up here..
One thing I've noticed about my L/R hearing imbalance is that it goes away after taking the hearing test on this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobile.eaudiologia
It gets you to calibrate your headphones with tiny sounds left tand right, then does a test. After this, my hearing is almost balanced.
I thought it might be worth a try to see if it works for you.
found this app for testing hearing. Obviously not as good as a proper test in an Audiologists office. Likely better than those free tests offered at popup counters in shopping malls. (honestly I don't know why anyone bothers with them, thankfully I haven't seen one for a while, I always thought they were scammy/pointless.)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobile.eaudiologia
There’s an app to check the frequencies you have more trouble listening to, take note and then you can manually adjust your eq. I’ll report back with the name of the app.
Edit: here it is
Have you seen a otolaryngologist and have they done a MRI and blood tests?
TLDR; sudden hearing loss is considered a medical emergency and you should seek treatment from an ENT right away. If not treated within 72 hours, recovery prognosis goes down rapidly. Always be proactive about your health and don't ignore your instincts!
My hearing loss happened over about 24h. By 48h I had dexamethasone injected through my eardrum, and was started on 7d (I think) of Prednisone. Two more dexamethasone shots each 2 days apart. Hearing started coming back about the time I got the third shot and was fully recovered (with enhanced spatial awareness) after about 10d total.
The whole thing started by feeling like my ear wouldn't pop one evening. Popped a pseudoephedrine but by next morning (of course a Friday) it was fuzzy and at one point I had to switch ears to use the phone. By afternoon I called insurance nurse and she said to go to urgent care or ER. She also reminded me that her job was to keep me from unnecessary ER visits.
I went to urgent care and they said it looked like there might be fluid but they couldn't tell for sure, and I should keep taking the pseudoephedrine through the weekend and check in with them on Monday if it was still bad. That seemed incongruous with the insurance company nurse advice, and I knew from a friend's experience dating him that the doctor I saw was kind of full of himself, misogynistic, and not particularly interested in people he was supposed to be carrying for.
So I called an ENT doc. He was just getting off work for the weekend and said it could be serious, and it depended on if there was fluid. :-/ I was able to tentatively self-diagnose with the help of a hearing test app that identified my left ear as "profoundly deaf" and my right ear as normal/excellent. By that time it was late, so I called and left a message on an after-hours emergency line for the nearest otolaryngologist I could find in a big city 2h away.
I got a call back a half hour later, at almost midnight(!), and the doctor told me that it was important to get treated right away, and to come into his office at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. He told me to stop at a hearing clinic on the way and get an audiogram, and that he would make sure someone was there to meet me at 8 (on a Saturday!). When I got there he stuck at tuning fork against my skull on the left side and I could only hear it on the right side. Then he injected me with dexamethasone through the eardrum after cauterizing a little hole, out me on Prednisone, and I had two more shots, a bunch of blood work and a MRI over the course of the next week. None of the blood work are MRI found anything, thus the diagnosis of 'idiopathic' sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL).
My doc said I was very lucky that I acted so quickly and he was able to see me within ~36 hours of the time my hearing was affected (less than 24h from complete hearing loss). Turns out SSHL is a big deal because it usually indicates that either the blood supply to your cochlea has been cut off, or the blood supply to your auditory nerve, or your body is basically attacking your ear. That often results pretty quickly and permanent damage. That said, some people respond well to dexamethasone injections and a course of steroids even after a prolonged period if I remember correctly.
The most common causes for those scenarios are brain tumors or autoimmune disorder. Otherwise, it is hypothesized that inflammation from an unknown cause such as a virus is essentially cutting off the blood supply or squeezing the nerve, so they treat the symptom first and look for the cause. Apparently the most common causes of idiopathic SSHL are viral infection, but from what I understand they can't identify that definitively until you are a cadaver.
Thus is an awesome Android app for testing hearing. Very detailed but simple to use. Saves all my previous results for quick comparison. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobile.eaudiologia