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My hearing had gotten worse, as shown on an audiogram filled with X’s, O’s and squiggles connecting them.

The best results will come from a test administered by an audiologist, but in a pinch, an audiogram app can estimate your levels of hearing loss.

Early this year I learned that I have a rare type of hearing loss called a cookie-bite, so named because the audiogram appears to show a chunk missing from mid-frequency sounds.

Based on my audiogram, I was fitted for a pair of Starkey’s Muse hearing aids.

That loss is what is picked up by a standard test called an audiogram that measures how soft a noise we can hear in a quiet environment.