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So, I asked about ANSD at an appointment and the response is that as there's no copy of my MRI from 13 years ago, they'd need to do a new one before anything else. Currently it only says 'MRI was normal' in my notes which audiologist wasn't satisfied with. If they did they did anything else...

I seem to spend a lot of my time trying to (rather unsuccessfully) explain in a concise manner what my hearing aids sound like to other people, particularly their rather questionable processing of music and also how they're not so great in background noise. Is there any way of recording the...

The stance of the National Deaf Children's Society where I live is that all children with hearing loss are referred to as deaf because it's a positive identity, rather than a negative one. By the time I became a teenager, I realised that I wasn't really allowed to be 'deaf' because I had a...

So, I typically have a mild-to-moderate loss (mild in low frequencies, moderate in mid and high) but an episode of glue ear in my left ear left me completely deaf for most of Thursday with some sound returning by the evening. On Friday my hearing had returned even more and my air conduction...

My most recent hearing aids, Oticon Spirit Zests (Epoq) which I've had for at least 5 years were trialled with a three week sound increase. Unfortunately, I found the quietest level too loud with background noise. Though I did try my best with wearing them at home. By the time they increased...

Hi, I used to be fluent in Sign Supported English, or at least as fluent as my vocabulary was at the time, once I left primary school I guess it dwindled behind. I took BSL level one at 10/11 and used to be able to use BSL grammar even if it wasn't my default. When I move I'm hoping to join a...

I'm interested in whether those who learnt sign later started thinking/dreaming in sign and whether those who learnt to orally communicate later began to think in sound. I've been wondering how other people's experiences of this have been; I was brought up orally but later became fluent Sign...

Anyone have tips for getting used to wearing hearing aids? I have moderate hearing loss in both ears, one very slightly worse than the other (I can't tell which, but I'm told not to mix my hearings aids up) and I've always had trouble wearing aids. I've had hearing aids since I was 8...

I've been offered a radio aid by the Disabled Student's Allowance. They advised the Smartlink+ because it has a zoom feature (and bluetooth) but other parts of it's tech spec are behind. My first and third radio aids, many years ago, had zoom but my second and favourite did not. There's a...