Medical history for hearing loss
If you report symptoms of hearing loss or your doctor finds that you have some hearing loss, 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 flu 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?
- Have you ever had a stroke or a heart attack? Do you have diabetes?
- What medicines are you now taking? Aspirin? Water pills (diuretics)?
- Have you ever taken antibiotics directly in a vein (intravenous)?
- Have you ever had chemotherapy?
| Author: | Monica Rhodes | Last Updated: April 30, 2007 |
| Medical Review: | Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine Donald R. Mintz, MD - Otolaryngology Charles M. Myer, III, MD - Otolaryngology | |
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