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Hi all, my name is Suzanne and I am almost 38 years old. I lost hearing at the age of 15 monthes old and am just this next week getting my first pair of hearing aids. I am very excited for this! As I can read lips fairly well, and I was so young my loss occured, I have adapted extremely well.

I have moderate loss in both ears, but I really don't know what I'm missing, as they say! I am in that interesting place where maybe others have been in which I question, even after all the tests at the audiologists, am I 'really' hard of hearing? Do I 'really' need hearing aids? Then I ask my co-workers a million times a day to repeat themselves, and get disappointed when the radio doesn't go any louder :)

I am verry interested in hearing from others who lost hearing as young child and have compensated to a point that is almost ridiculous. Also, my mother always denied my having hearing issues even after the school got on her about it-This was the 70's when stigma was huge.

S.
 
Welcome Suzanne. You will find all sorts of stories that you will be able to related to on AD, I'm sure.
 
Hello and welcome to Alldeaf! Am sure the excitement and anxiety of the fact you're getting a pair of ha's..hope it turns out real well for you, one suggestion, for the first few times wearing it, take it slow by wearing them for so long, a few hours here and there while gradually increasing the amount of time each day or so..this way, not only will it possibly help you adjust to it, but perhaps prevent headache(s). Am sure you will know what it is you need to do and will do quite well, hope the best when it comes to actually wearing the ha's. In the meantime, enjoy your stay here in AD! :)



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I was hard of hearing most of my life and didn't realize what I was missing. some things you will want to miss and other sounds you won't want to go away. hearing the rain fall, hearing birds twittering away, even mundane ordinary things like hearing the coffe pot perking or the ice machine refilling and dumping. It will get on your nerves at first but like the post earlier said, wear them a little at a time and slowly build up so that it doesnt bother you so bad.
 
Wow. It will take time to adjust due to everything will sound extremely loud to you at first. Just either take them off after a few hours or just slowly adjust the volume up as time goes on.. When I first got my hearing aids at the age of Five I must have not liked it at first because my mother told me I took them and flushed them down the toilet. I'm 33 now and when I get around loud environments, I turn down my hearing aids. My husband leers at me and tells me that he wishes he has selective hearing LOL. . I just grin and lower the volume on my hearing aids.

Welcome to AD and I hope you enjoy this place.. :welcome:
 
oh Baby Blue isn't it nice to have what they call selective hearing at times? I do it in walmart every time we walk in the loud roar of the place is like walking into a wind tunnel full of screams and I just cant stand it! volume control is my best friend since I got my hearing aids!
 
Welcome. My sister's experience was 100% silence from day one, but my hearing loss was as an adult a bit at a time, wearing first one, then both more powerful aids. Hearing has been all gone for about eight years.

Steph, I like your use of "selective hearing," cranking the volume up and down. Otherwise, it's pretty much an insult from people who think we deafies could hear "if you just try a little harder," ha ha ha.
 
Hello Suzanne,

Welcome to Alldeaf and hope you will enjoy your stay here hon.
 
Welcome to Alldeaf and please enjoy your stay here. May you have many years of happy posting here in Alldeaf.
 
steph9700 said:
oh Baby Blue isn't it nice to have what they call selective hearing at times? I do it in walmart every time we walk in the loud roar of the place is like walking into a wind tunnel full of screams and I just cant stand it! volume control is my best friend since I got my hearing aids!
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:D yup sure is. Especially when it gets too loud and overwhelming.

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LittleCat Let us know how the Hearing Aids turn out for you.
 
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Steph, I like your use of "selective hearing," cranking the volume up and down. Otherwise, it's pretty much an insult from people who think we deafies could hear "if you just try a little harder," ha ha ha.
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yeah all my concentration goes out the window by the time hubby gets home and he thinks its because I don't want to hear him or don't want to listen. that isnt it, its because I am tired of trying to decypher the stuff I hear and understand everything. Do you get tired at the end of the day like that too?
 
OOOHHH goodness we all seem to have

a similiar story!:grouphug: I also became hard of hearing at the age of 18months. However, I have worn an aide since I was about 5yrs old. (One ear is dead) But, can I tell you that I LOVE the end of the day when I can take it off or I love sleeping on my good ear (so I do not hear a SOUND) I wish you luck w/ your HA- you will be amazed!

WElCOME!
 
......But back to the thread, I was born with mild hearing loss and it gradually got worse. I am 32 now and have 74-75% loss in my right ear and about 80% in my left ear. My mom wanted to get me hearing aids when I was about ten because the school called her and told her I needed them. my father refused saying that I wouldn't wear them and it would be a waste of money. I didn't get my first set of hearing aids till I was 21 and got them on my own through Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services for The Disabled. They got me a stethoscope with a special bell that magnified sounds and had 4 large hearing aid batteries in it to boost it. I went through college and got my LPN and worked for 5 years like that until I met my now husband online and moved to England to be with him. I haven't worked since we came back from England but ADRS is fixing to help me go through school to be a clinical Laboratory technician so I can work in a lab and small amount of people so I don't have to worry about hearing too much. After I graduate they are going to place me in a job too. I currently own Siemens digital hearing aids that help a lot with my hearing but I still misunderstand a lot due to it being nerves slowly dying off in my ears. Plus it doesn't help that I have tinnitus in both ears too.
 
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