Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Hearing Loss

@blisshifi 

Juan..you made my day.

I was born with constant fairly loud bilateral tinnitus and selective narrow band loss.  The fact that you can be so right on with your listening observations brings to light a great point.  For me, I have never heard music or anything else like others do.  I rarely understand lyrics, but I still have the ability to compare what I hear And I even get the benefit of being able to enjoy Korean singers like IU.  Especially IU... hate her girlie genre..but love her voice and good looks.  I'm partially deaf, not deaf and old but not dead.

Anyway, Juan..appreciate your guidance and @kb54 I Also have sleep apnea and use a cpap...there are so many health benefits to getting this sorted out.  Mine is structural..but kindof use to the cpap.

@kb54 I hope you find a way to keep the experiences positive as well. Happy to chat if you ever need someone to talk to about it. Yes, Vintage Vinyl’s closing was really sad news. I think it was around 2015 or so when vinyl was definitely on the uptick. I feel that vinyl again has become less popular in the last two years, though it is still going strong. Digital has come a really long way these past two years.

@vonhelmholtz Thanks for sharing your story. I recall us discussing the Tinnitus in the past but wasn’t aware of your hearing loss.

To both of you, thanks for being receptive to my sharing what I did. Sometimes I’m a bit protective of sharing about my hearing loss due to me being a dealer and avid audiophile, and the conversation could have gone a really different way. You two are great examples of what make this community an incredible experience to be a part of. 

I'm so sorry to hear this. Maybe switching to headphones might help? I have nasty tinnitus too and expect this to happen to me too in the future.

Nothing to do with sleep apnea, but I've been wearing hearing aids for around 20 years or so now, and I've got loads of great audiophile gear, both 2-channel and headphones. I use in-ear hearing aids for the headphones. I may not hear it as well as a person with normal hearing, but I can sure tell the relative differences between gear anyway....

Just what I wanted to read-I’m going for my Sleep test tonight.  I’ve also been in denial for years.  I used to be in great shape but relied on exercise, about 2 hours a day high intensity, to keep my weight down, but I turned 50 and developed leukemia, gained weight from steroids, then had to have emergency heart surgery shortly after coming off them, then blew out my back, developed arthritis of the knees…on it goes.  I still try to exercise but I feel so far behind the eight ball weight wise that frankly I can’t get motivated to starve myself for months.  Maybe a positive Sleep Test will finally light a fire.  Happy to be alive, though

  Anyway, I’m a Physician, and hypoxia can definitely cause ischemia to the auditory nerve.  My sympathies with the OP