I noticed a problem with my hearing in the past 12 months so I decided to get it checked out. Lo and behold I have significant hearing loss with my right ear. Surprisingly the technician then proceeds to tell my my diabetes most likely had a 'role' in my loss. I was stunned with this info.
After research I have read where diabetics chances for hearing loss at high frequencies are common. Last visit to my endo confirmed this.Fortunately, hearing aids for both ears will assist with my hearing loss.
So a word of advice is that you may want to add a hearing test to your annual check-ups items like the eye and foot doctors.
It is also not widely known that if you were a rubella baby (this virus often induces hearing loss), you have a 60% higher chance of developing diabetes in adulthood. The virus itself is believed to be able to induce changes in the pancreas that show up decades later. Since we now have vacinnations against this virus, only older (50's up) would be getting this and so I'm betting it is getting even less known to young doctors.
How interesting. I had rubella as a kid. Everyone I knew at the time had it also. We had German measles parties so all the kids would get it & not worry about the birth defect consequences of getting it as an adult.
