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Hi..... Loved your comment "What used to seem inadequate is now amazingly wonderful". I recently had another significant hearing loss. Left ear pretty useless already, now right ear went from 95% word recognition during testing to 45%, enough so I could no longer understand what my husband was saying 6 inches away from me. We were writing notes and using texting to communicate. Just finished a 10 day course of oral steroids and regained 10% in that ear. It is enough so that I can hear and understand him if we are out on the porch early in the morning. So now we have our "porch time" date each morning at 7am to discuss and plan the day.
Now I am doing a course of three once a week steroid injections into my eardrum. Done it before..... not fun but worth it if it helps more. I'm hopeful but meantime am so grateful to have the 10% gain!
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@judyca7 your recent hearing loss sounds similar to mine. My hearing of sounds/volume hasn’t changed much but my speech recognition has degraded badly. One ear is now profound and the other severe.
Do you know what caused your hearing loss? I know it can happen with aging, but I believe that both cirrhosis and immunosuppressants can also cause that, but rarely. I think they exacerbated my loss which started in 2004. As my husband has aged his voice is less clear so it’s almost impossible for me to hear him the first time he says something.
Having hearing problems really is isolating. I had been going to water classes prior to the pandemic. It was a large friendly class but I was definitely an outsider because it was impossible for me to communicate over the sounds in the pool area and I have to pay a lot of attention to the class leader. This despite wearing my HAs into the pool - my head does not go under.
Phone calls with customer service people are impossible! Frequently they have strong accents and they always speak fast. My doctors are pretty accommodating.
JK