I was reading a story about cookie bite hearing loss (I thought I was a bad listener. Turns out, I couldn’t hear | Well actually | The Guardian) and got to wondering about the difference between the two types of cookie bite loss. The author of the article had what I am guessing is the more common kind: where hearing loss is in the mid-range frequencies. Thus, understanding speech would be difficult. Mine is a reverse and I’ve lost hearing in both the top range and the bottom range. I don’t find hearing regular speech from adults to be a problem at all and even though I am distracted in restaurants, etc, by the loudness, I can hear speech most of the time. I can’t hear quiet voices or little kid voices or things like the tick-tock of the clocks in my house or rain. As I read through questions folks on this groupl ask centering on hearing aids and how they work, I have just now had the epiphany that these different types of hearing loss defintely require different adjustments. (duh me!)… What are experiences that others have with these differences in hearing abilities top/bottom down of hearing ranges?
Posting your audiogram here would help 
In any case, proper hearing aids allow to adjust to any kind of hearing loss (technically) and a well trained audiologist is a must imho to help you.
You can have the best hearing aids in the world, but if you do not have a good audiologist you’ll never be happy.
Thanks for the reply. Here’s the audiogram. What I’m mostly trying to say is that I had just noticed that the different abilities to hear different levels is so clear between the cookie bite and reverse cookie bite. Does that make sense? My audiogram shows ‘normal’ in the mid range and low on each end. The other cookie bite levels show ‘normal’ on the ends and not so much in the middle. It’s an observation. I go to Costco for my HAs and have had good luck with them and their willingness to change things up. Any other thoughts about these differences? Again, Thanks so much for your input and conversation.
(ANd I think I need to go back and have that left ear checked… I now can’t hear the ticking of clocks at all or voices on the telephone in that ear… rats! ).
I have a similar shaped audiogram only more severe and I can hear clocks ticking (in a quiet room) just fine. Ditto for phone calls.
You probably need to have your upper and lower frequency gains amped up a bit. This may take a bit of getting used to as everything will sound quite loud for a week or two.