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@contentandwell

Hi @samt Welcome to Connect.
It must have been tough to lose a lot of your hearing during your teen years. My daughter started wearing hearing aids when she was 4 and was fine with them until she hit those teen years when kids can be cruel. For a long time she only wore one but when she went to college she resumed wearing two knowing she really needed to hear everything in class. We never knew what caused her loss but were told that’s true with a large percentage of people.

I hope that you don’t end up deaf too. That’s something that scares me also since my hearing seems to have deteriorated a lot. I didn’t start wearing HAs until I was in my 50s, 15 years ago. Are you wearing HAs or a CI?
JK

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samt | @samt | Sep 24, 2019

Hi @contentandwell. I am sorry to hear about both you and your daughter. I remember the hard times I had in school...I had to ask the teacher if I could sit up close, as well as hid my hearing aids with my hair. But at least I had better hearing then as compared to now.

I have always used hearing aids. I am not a candidate for cochlear implants, since the hairs in cochlea are dead. But, technology is changing, and maybe one day I will be a candidate.

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