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keykSince I have time to (although I was planning to study for A.P. exams and finals today), I did more research on hearing loss.
It was really difficult since every time I mentioned THE EAR, my mom would just ramble on and on about how I should stop doing anything music related, asked if I could hear my teachers, told me to stop playing music until I met with the doctor, etc. etc. Anyway, I got that she had sensorineural hearing loss. Further research has allowed me to determine that it is NOT genetic. My mother is the only one with hearing problems in her family, and hearing loss on my father's side is only found in much older individuals, that is, hearing loss due to natural degradation over time. Therefore, it is neither a dominant nor recessive inherited trait.
Tinnitus is not something that should set anyone off. It's just tinnitus. GEEZ. A symptom--a sign that I may have damaged my ear, perhaps, but nothing to fret over. The more paranoid one gets, the more obvious one's tinnitus is, and the more annoying it is. The fact that it IS annoying is the main reason it is treated in the first place. Yes, I get headaches, I have balance problems, I get dizzy and nauseous, but all of this can be attributed to my failure to take care of myself. I do not sleep well, my posture is really bad (I have scoliosis, too), I do not eat correctly, I do not exercise as much as I should, and I have emotional problems, which undoubtedly affect me physically. These problems are better candidates for causing my tinnitus than my having the same ear problems as my mother.
Frankly, I have no idea what the doctor will do about this. The only thing I can tell him is that I have chronic tinnitus, which may lead to my admitting that I have all of the aforementioned problems, and that is something I'm more nervous about than finding out I have some major ear problem because I really don't think he'll tell me that. I'll have to take some hearing tests to find out if my hearing has been damaged. Well, I do get ear pains every now and then, but I haven't researched that yet. Whether that will be a sign of some hearing problem, I do not know. Still, I am not panicking.
I'm glad that I've found reason not to worry about becoming deaf by the time I'm in college. My mom still won't get off my case though. She tells me that I'll be made fun of, will have soooo many problems later in life, and that I should give up on music (and voice-acting if she knew about that). I'm aware that there are cruel people in the world and that becoming deaf is difficult, but, mom, I've lived long enough and dealt with enough people to know that. I wouldn't be so picky with people if I wasn't. I've always been ridiculed to some extent, and I get it. Sometimes I wish you'd listen to me. I'd rather do something with whatever hearing I had left if I did have severe hearing problems than preserve my hearing just for the sake of preserving it. I know that we're so distant because of your hearing problem. I may be a teenager, but I'm not entirely naive and reckless and uncooperative. Please don't make me panic over things I shouldn't be panicking over. I've panicked over enough of my health problems already.
It was really difficult since every time I mentioned THE EAR, my mom would just ramble on and on about how I should stop doing anything music related, asked if I could hear my teachers, told me to stop playing music until I met with the doctor, etc. etc. Anyway, I got that she had sensorineural hearing loss. Further research has allowed me to determine that it is NOT genetic. My mother is the only one with hearing problems in her family, and hearing loss on my father's side is only found in much older individuals, that is, hearing loss due to natural degradation over time. Therefore, it is neither a dominant nor recessive inherited trait.
Tinnitus is not something that should set anyone off. It's just tinnitus. GEEZ. A symptom--a sign that I may have damaged my ear, perhaps, but nothing to fret over. The more paranoid one gets, the more obvious one's tinnitus is, and the more annoying it is. The fact that it IS annoying is the main reason it is treated in the first place. Yes, I get headaches, I have balance problems, I get dizzy and nauseous, but all of this can be attributed to my failure to take care of myself. I do not sleep well, my posture is really bad (I have scoliosis, too), I do not eat correctly, I do not exercise as much as I should, and I have emotional problems, which undoubtedly affect me physically. These problems are better candidates for causing my tinnitus than my having the same ear problems as my mother.
Frankly, I have no idea what the doctor will do about this. The only thing I can tell him is that I have chronic tinnitus, which may lead to my admitting that I have all of the aforementioned problems, and that is something I'm more nervous about than finding out I have some major ear problem because I really don't think he'll tell me that. I'll have to take some hearing tests to find out if my hearing has been damaged. Well, I do get ear pains every now and then, but I haven't researched that yet. Whether that will be a sign of some hearing problem, I do not know. Still, I am not panicking.
I'm glad that I've found reason not to worry about becoming deaf by the time I'm in college. My mom still won't get off my case though. She tells me that I'll be made fun of, will have soooo many problems later in life, and that I should give up on music (and voice-acting if she knew about that). I'm aware that there are cruel people in the world and that becoming deaf is difficult, but, mom, I've lived long enough and dealt with enough people to know that. I wouldn't be so picky with people if I wasn't. I've always been ridiculed to some extent, and I get it. Sometimes I wish you'd listen to me. I'd rather do something with whatever hearing I had left if I did have severe hearing problems than preserve my hearing just for the sake of preserving it. I know that we're so distant because of your hearing problem. I may be a teenager, but I'm not entirely naive and reckless and uncooperative. Please don't make me panic over things I shouldn't be panicking over. I've panicked over enough of my health problems already.
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