Hearing loss

I have subtitles on the telly now, and have got so used to them being there I don't 'see' them [but they annoy other people ]. However since I got home yesterday the subtitles have gone and I don't know how to get them back.

I've got to the stage where most of my conversations with my OH and my mother are filled with all parties saying 'pardon?' and 'sorry, didn't catch that'. It's quite comical at times. I've got tinnitus in both ears which doesn't help but find myself using the headphones on my iPad to watch TV programmes because it's so much clearer that way. But it's getting more of a problem so I've booked a hearing test. Do they still offer ear trumpets?

Oh, dear, gillybob. I have heard they are not always successful. I'm in prevaricating mode again.

My DD has had gromits in (and out of) her ears from being around 5 years old (she's now 30) NotTooOld She has had several ops over the years. She suffered terribly with earache and glue ear as a baby and her hearing has suffered as a result. The operations are straight forward enough but whenever she has a heavy cold or sneezes hard the gromits literally shoot out of her ears. I think she has given up.

NotTooOld. Sadly I think they've all gone deaf

Hearing aids are one thing, but there's not much help available for listening aids

My husband has been getting progressively deafer over the last few years, and now wears a hearing aid in each ear, but it drives me mad every time we say anything, we get "What?", or "Eh?" It`s doubly annoying because all those weeks he was in ICU, he wasn`t wearing the aids, yet he heard every word they said to him!

Hello? Can anybody hear me?

I've been to the docs several times because I can't hear very well. He gives me nose drops and they don't help much, so the next step he tells me is gromits in the ears. There is nothing wrong with my hearing apparatus but I have fluid in the ear and it needs draining. It does make me quite deaf at times but I don't fancy the gromits. Has anyone tried them, did it hurt and did they work?

I have had two hearing tests over the last couple of years. Each time the GP says my hearing isn't bad enough to benefit from a hearing aid, but I do miss an awful lot. Detactive programmes are particularly difficult because I completely lose the thread of who did what to who!

My hearing has deteriorated over the last year, and my family have talked me into going for a hearing test. Appt. on Tuesday.
The thing is, it's not a problem to me at all just for the others!
Husband complains too, but he's also a bit deaf, so as rosesarered says, leads to comical conversations.

I am with anya on this one - couldn't have put it better myself. DH's hearing is deteriorating at a rate of knots but he won't recognise the fact and he won't countenance having a hearing aid. He's not keen on company these days - especially people he doesn't know very well, and I think it's because he has difficulty following conversations.

Me too,deaf as a post.I wear two hearing aids,but still need sub titles,and struggle to hear in a group conversation.Ok with family and Freinds because they're used to me,but I've been accused of being stuck up by a couple of people,

It's me with the poor hearing, not DH, although we do have some comical conversations at times, however since I have always had a hearing problem from birth ( only one ear works!) I am used to contentrating hard when in company, but hey ho,am healthy in most other ways.everyone should have a hearing test if they think they need a device, it comes to us all in the end, as my Uncle used to say gloomily ( about everything.)

It's very hard isn't it? I can get very grumpy with DH and I know I shouldn't but it does kill the art of conversation and all those little throw away remarks - you just give up.

I try to think how much worse it must be for him.

I have this problem with my DH too, poor chap. He wears hearing aids but it is obviously sometimes that he has no idea what is being said when we are with a group of people. Consequently he gets the wrong end of the stick, says things that have no relevance as he doesn't 'get' what we are talking about. People are constantly having to repeat themselves. I don't know what the answer is really. I feel bad for saying this but sometimes it drives me up the wall.