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Setting up single-sided hearing aid for tinnitus reduction

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Later today I will get my hearing aid (left ear only) in an attempt to reduce my tinnitus. I have a hearing loss of 20 @ 8 kHz in my left ear compared to my right causing the tinnitus.

9 years ago when my tinnitus started they tried a hearing aid which worked well but at that time I was only 48 and was not ready for it. I had no hearing loss in my right ear so setting up the hearing aid was very straight forward: compensate for the loss in my left ear.

Now I am 57 and I have additional age related hearing loss of 25 dB @ 8kHz on both sides. My question is, do you set up the hearing aid to correct the total hearing loss of 20+25=45 dB or do you only compensate for the 20 dB difference between left and right?

Other than my tinnitus my hearing is excellent so I am only looking for the optimal solution to get rid of my tinnitus. I am afraid that full correction will cause a disbalance the other way possibly triggering tinnitus on the other side.

Thanks, Walter

That’s not how gain figure are calculated. Your hearing loss of 45dB will yeild a gain figure of around 12-15dB plus or minus what the aid does using .

Tinnitus tuning is slightly different, there’s a couple of approaches to ‘notch filtering’ and ‘peak matching’ which you can try, once you’ve established the frequency (pitch) tonal spread and nature of the Tinnitus.

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In reply to @Um_bongo

Thanks for your reply but I am new to this and don’t understand your remark about gain.

Up to 4kHz I have perfect hearing on both sides, then at 6kHz it is -15/-25 (R/L) and at 8kHz -25/-45.

My tinnitus is a hiss at 8kHz. I am not attempting to mask my tinnitus only to remove the R/L imbalance which is the proven cause of my tinnitus, which I hope will lessen my tinnitus.

Hi. I am doing the same thing…made an appt for my first hearing aid at Costco. This is all new to me so I am struggling with its realization of what my future hearing issues will be. Hope you have a positive resolution.
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