Frequency hearing drop Options

[eahm]

"Hello doctors/experts,"

I read that the ability to hear high frequency sounds drops with time and age and I am aware that we have a range and I also saw graphs and documents about it.

My concern is about how the drop appears, does it change from where one lives? How much and how fast can the time/age drop? Does it depend to humidity? Weather (too cold, too warm)? Altitude? Bad habits (alcohol/beer, whisky etc., smoking/cigars etc.)? Most important, fatigue/not to much sleep (and probably still related to the weather being too warm)?

I am 30, can it be temporary and go back up during winter?

It's not a matter of life and death, I actually don't really care, the music is still good to me and if age does this it's ok but I was able to hear up to 17Khz let's say 5-6 months ago and now only up to 13Khz. Here in Phoenix 5-6 months ago was cooler than this very hot summer that's why I'm asking about the weather possibility. I've been in Arizona 6 years but I am not from here, I am from a small mountain town from the center-north of Italy, I have no idea what the desert can do to a person.

If anyone can answer, thanks.

This post has been edited by eahm: Sep 11 2012, 03:06

[mzil]

http://www.speechandhearing.ca/files/noise...ring%20loss.pdf

the music is still good to me

And it very well may be what has caused your hearing loss. Amplified music such as at a concert or club, or the use of headphones (even very inexpensive ones on a portable device) are quite capable of causing irreparable harm. Other examples include machinery and loud traffic noise. Cumulative harm can occur even when individual exposure events don't cause any "ringing" or temporary deafness, so don't use that as your indicator of there being a problem.

Always follow OSHA noise exposure time guidelines, at the very least, and wear ear protection, such as E-A-R (3M) foam ear plugs, in environments you can't control.

http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.sh...S&p_id=9736

This post has been edited by mzil: Sep 11 2012, 03:52