Welcome Rena. I see that you also connected with others in the discussion about mid-range hearing loss here:
- Cookie Bite Hearing Loss https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/cookie-bite-hearing-loss/

Hi, @renajoy Welcome to Connect.
Have you tried a different audiologist? My hearing loss is much more severe than yours, severe in one ear, profound in the other, I can't expect things to be perfect but prior to my hearing loss being as bad as it is now I could hear reasonably well with my hearing aids.

I assume that UC San Francisco is highly regarded but even the best can miss something sometimes. I think my audiologist is excellent but my daughter convinced me to go to a different one in NYC who is well known in the field. My daughter thought she would be able to help me more than my local audiologist. Well, the NYC audiologist agreed with my local audiologist! It was reassuring though to get her input too and know I was doing what was most helpful, and using hearing aids best suited to my hearing loss. It's difficult to have to face that hearing aids will never give us the same hearing as natural hearing. They are not like eyeglasses.
JK

Did you manage to get help? I have this problem and I'm very frustrated with my current hearing aids, it's group conversations, TV and certain people's speech that are so challenging and disabling especially for group conversations. I miss so much.