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Have you been exposed to loud noises?

Loud noises can cause a hearing loss, even if the exposure was years ago. If you continue to have loud noise exposure, purchase hearing protection to protect your hearing. Get your hearing checked often when working in or being exposed to noise. High levels of noise cause damage and accelerate age related hearing loss.

Do you have difficulty hearing TV or phone conversations clearly?

You may have a low and a high frequency hearing loss. This type of loss makes it difficult to hear many consonant sounds as well as the vowel sounds. Without consonants and vowel sounds, speech becomes soft sounding and it becomes difficult to understand speech.

Do you have difficulty understanding conversations in a group?

You may have a high frequency hearing loss leaving the low frequencies dominant. This type of loss makes it easier to here vowels and more difficult to hear consonant sounds. Without consonants, it becomes difficult to understand speech. Low frequency hearing enhance background noise.

Are you told the TV or radio is too loud?

When you need to increase the volume on the TV or radio, you may be experiencing a hearing loss and are trying to compensate for it. It may be a high frequency loss. This type of loss makes it difficult to hear consonant sounds. Without these sounds, it becomes difficult to understand speech in many listening environments.

Do you have trouble hearing when there is background noise?

You may have a high frequency hearing loss leaving the low frequencies dominant. This type of loss makes it easier to here vowels and more difficult to hear consonant sounds. Without consonants, it becomes difficult to understand speech. Low frequency hearing enhances back ground noise.

Do you ask people to repeat themselves?

You may have a high frequency hearing loss leaving the low frequencies dominant. This type of loss makes it easier to here vowels and more difficult to hear consonant sounds. Without consonants, it becomes difficult to understand speech.

Do people sound like they are mumbling?

You may have a high frequency hearing loss leaving the low frequencies dominant. This type of loss makes it easier to here vowels and more difficult to hear consonant sounds. Without consonants, it becomes difficult to understand speech. When you have better low frequency hearing, vowels are easier heard making voices sound like they mumble.

Do people get annoyed because you misunderstand what they say?

If people are getting annoyed because you misunderstand them, you may be experiencing a long-term hearing loss that you are unaware of. Hearing loss can gradually increase over a number of years and can be difficult for you to detect.

Do you experience ringing or buzzing in your ears?

If this buzzing or ringing has recently started along with starting a new medication, go see your Doctor to determine if the medication could be causing the issue. The ringing or buzzing could also mean you have a wax block, a middle ear infection or you have had noise exposure.