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redfoxrising 15-Feb-19, 09:43	Hearing Loss I had my hearing tested after driving with my wife and her telling me I said what too much! I had a hearing aid sample made for me and I was surprised to hear way more than I thought I ever heard. I can hear sounds quite well enough with out the aid. I'm constantly hearing sounds sometimes that make me check my cell phones to see if I have a call coming in. I am listening to the T.V now and it seems the commercials have some kind of stereo that throws sound all around me in front and back and on each side of me. I'm at my desk facing the opposite direction of the T.V. and remembered that my hearing was like 60/40 better in my right ear. My son gets excruciating pain in his ears and has then cleaned of excessive ear wax. I know Q-tips are used to clean ears and people actually push in wax deeper into the ear canals so I try to use them ever so gently with a spinning action to just soak up the most outer ear wax. I know I should not use them at all. Does anyone else use Q-tips?
archduke_piccolo 15-Feb-19, 12:25	Q-tips... I do, and have done for over forty years. I suffer from chronic itching on my ears, for no reason that I have been able to discover. It can be relieved by the old cotton-bud (Q-tip) soaked in hot water (I like it just barely tolerable) with the spinning motion. I don't have much in the way of wax. The relief is exquisite! I have had hearing aids for the last 6 years. I don't use them very often.
the-sigularity 16-Feb-19, 06:43	My wife has a problem I have a very soft voice to begin with, and lately I found that I have to raise my voice in order for her to hear me. We are both old, me 82 and she 4 years younger, but my hearing is still good as I can hear sounds outside the house like when I click my car to lock the doors. I do not suggest a hearing aid for my wife, because I know she will reject the suggestion.
archduke_piccolo 16-Feb-19, 11:28	@easy-win At times I wished my womenfolk had had as much tact. Even with some government subsidy, my lug assisters weren't cheap. Having said that, they have been useful at times, and they do make a difference. They aren't even especially uncomfortable (apart from inducing ear-itch). Oddly enough, I actually don't like the background noise much. I've been slightly - very slightly - hearing impaired after getting a middle ear infection when I was 14 (during school exam time, too, which meant I sat the English exam with a tremendous earache, and missed the remainder - had to get aegrotat passes for them). I could hear conversations in normal tones, but it became problematic when people dropped their voices for any reason. I think by the time I got to my sixties, the womenfolk decided it was getting worse and making communication problematic for them. But here's a thing. Very often my 'what?' did not mean I couldn't hear them. It meant that several words had gone by before my consciousness tuned in to what they had to say. This was not once a conversation had begun, but perhaps at the beginning of one, or, especially, when I was spoken to unexpectedly.
the-sigularity 17-Feb-19, 08:34	@archduke_piccolo When I was very young, (maybe (5 or 6) my dad was hammering on a board, while doing some work, and for some reason, I decided to put my ear to the board. The very loud sound, made my ears ring, and now I have ringing in my ears always. It is called tinnitus and I think there is a cure for that, but it just does not bother me that much, I have grown to ignore it, especially if I am concentrating on other things, like writing or speaking. By the way, I think I have heard that there is now an implant for the deaf that can give them some hearing. Do you know anything about that?
archduke_piccolo 17-Feb-19, 11:42	Implants - I know nothing about them; never thought to inquire. Probably an expensive procedure, and may be reserved for patients for whom hearing aids are no help. That's just a guess, though. For years I used to get a kind of tonal hissing in my ears, like the sound production of a very old gramophone record, but with a single tone, and more hiss than tone. Used to get a deal worse when I was tired. Don't get that so much these days, except when very tired. When that happens, though, my hearing really is quite badly impaired. Fortunately a decent sleep is enough to deal with it. When I was small I'd occasionally get a sudden 'bong' sound in my ear, quite a pure tone that gradually faded away over maybe a minute or so. Never knew the cause - there seemed to be none - and didn't seem to affect anything, so I ignored it. Didn't even tell my parents.
the-sigularity 17-Feb-19, 11:58	Here is a funny Joke I heard a long time ago Two old timers were chewing the fat one day, and one of them was saying he had really good eyesight. There was a house across the street from where they were sitting, and the first fellow said, well my eyesight is so good, I can see a fly walking on that roof top, bet you can't see it. The second old timer answered, no, but I can hear it's foot steps.
redfoxrising 19-Mar-21, 16:56	hearing loss has been corrected I got my hearing aids this past year in December It is so exciting to be able to hear what I've been missing!!
redfoxrising 19-Mar-21, 17:00	Welcome Radmax17 welcome to our club good to see you found us. I saw that BC accepted you. Tell us about yourself. Feel free to look thru our threads. topics get old and sometimes a new member can start them back up, if you want. I just wanted to say hello to you and hope all is well!
mo-oneandmore 20-Mar-21, 07:48	Ringing My ears ring almost constantly (usually around 3000 hz or so but it can vary) --- Likely due to my spending too much time around screaming jet engines when I was in the Navy. I also have balance problems that is apparently neurologically related (not as bad as ear related balance problems). I should also have hearing aid assistance for my hearing loss.
redfoxrising 05-Aug-23, 14:53	my hearing aids are great mine charge eith usb base no batteries. I did have new start with new hearing aids same model after they fail working. I do the cleaning by replacing their wax filters. I use them with my iphone when browsing and on TikTok facebook youtube and while talking on the phone.

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