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Hi, @jymm I see you have posted a while ago, but welcome to Connect. My daughter started wearing HAs at age 4 so I understand how it is for children. I was in my 50s when I started wearing HAs. My loss is totally different from my daughter’s. She always just wore regular HAs. She is in her 30s now and her hearing loss is, I believe, classified as moderate.
I too have had to accept my loss, despite the social difficulties it causes. I am severe in one ear and profound in the other with 30% and 50% word recognition. It sounds as if you are doing very well though, which is great. For me, it was the loss of word recognition that made things the most difficult. How is your word recognition? I suspect that loss in me may have been due to either a medication or to having had cirrhosis because it happened very quickly.
JK
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Hi JK, I think word recognition tests can be misleading since the audiologist can set the volume up too loud and in a quiet setting. Although it's a good test for comparison year to year. Mostly I can understand conversations if the speaker is talking directly to me. If a 3rd person enters the conversation, I cannot understand the speaker and lose interest.