Medical History for Hearing Loss

If you report symptoms of hearing loss or your doctor finds that you have some Reference hearing loss Opens New Window, he or she may ask a number of questions.

Questions about symptoms

• When did you first notice your hearing loss?
• Was your hearing loss sudden, or do you feel it has slowly been getting worse?
• Do you notice your hearing loss in one or both ears?
• Have you noticed ringing in your ears, a "fullness" in your ear, dizziness, fluid draining from your ear, or ear pain?
• Have you ever had to strain to hear?
• Have you had symptoms of a cold or the Reference flu Opens New Window recently?

Questions about your family and lifestyle

• Do others in your family have hearing loss?
• What is your job? How noisy is your workplace? Is there machine noise?
• What do you do in your spare time? Are you around loud noises, such as found in motorcycling or snowmobiling?
• Do you listen to loud music?
• Do you routinely use snowblowers, gas lawn mowers, leaf blowers, or power tools?
• Have you traveled on an airplane or been scuba diving recently?

Questions about health and medicine

• Have you had ear infections or an ear injury in the past?
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• What medicines are you now taking? Aspirin? Water pills (Reference diuretics Opens New Window)?
• Have you ever taken antibiotics directly in a vein (Reference intravenous Opens New Window)?
• Have you ever had Reference chemotherapy Opens New Window?

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