Tinnitus

[MajorR]

Reading this thread it’s surprising how many people have tinnitus. I’ve had it for 10 years and haven’t come across many who have it. Mine came on suddenly while I was in work, sound became a bit muffled and after a while I had this continuous high pitched whining in my ear - to go with the usual whining in my ear from wifey!

Ended up having some tests and an MRI which confirmed some hearing lost. I was given a hearing aid type thing to try and train my ear and drown the high pitch whining out. The tinnitus is there all the time, most of the time I’m able to ignore it but there are times when it plays up and I have to use the hearing aid. Old age!!

 

[Niigata Jack]

Life can be a kick in the nads.

Don't go mentioning a kick in the nads, that's just cruel

 

[Squarebear]

Yes you will get to see what comes out. I use Viney in Sketty.

Mrs Bear goes here for hearing tests.

Decades spent teaching means her hearing is shot yet Vineys (who presumably are wanting to sell hearing aids) tell her "Your hearing is not 100% but you're alright". That at least tells me they're ethical.

Alternatively their measuring equipment might be inaccurate

 

[K23]

Mrs Bear goes here for hearing tests.

Decades spent teaching means her hearing is shot yet Vineys (who presumably are wanting to sell hearing aids) tell her "Your hearing is not 100% but you're alright". That at least tells me they're ethical.

Alternatively their measuring equipment might be inaccurate

I don't think any adult has 100% hearing, whatever that means. Age related hearing loss normally starts around 30 but in modern society, hearing is likely to have been significantly impacted much earlier by exposure to things like traffic, music and noisy workplaces so a so called professional referring to '100% hearing' seems a bit odd to me.

 

[Niigata Jack]

Mrs Bear goes here for hearing tests.

Decades spent teaching means her hearing is shot yet Vineys (who presumably are wanting to sell hearing aids) tell her "Your hearing is not 100% but you're alright". That at least tells me they're ethical.

Alternatively their measuring equipment might be inaccurate

My eldest goes there he bought his hearing aids from them, he finds them very good, the hearing aids are quite discreet to in fairness.

 

[Squarebear]

I don't think any adult has 100% hearing, whatever that means. Age related hearing loss normally starts around 30 but in modern society, hearing is likely to have been significantly impacted much earlier by exposure to things like traffic, music and noisy workplaces so a so called professional referring to '100% hearing' seems a bit odd to me.

The "100%" remark was me paraphrasing to be honest.

Her hearing is crap actually. My life has become one long saga of repeating myself but louder.

I'm amazed they haven't tried to flog her a set of aids.

 

[K23]

The "100%" remark was me paraphrasing to be honest.

Her hearing is crap actually. My life has become one long saga of repeating myself but louder.

I'm amazed they haven't tried to flog her a set of aids.

Fair enough.

Your situation reminds of the one I had with my late wife except that her hearing was better than mine which being 17 years younger than me, was not surprising really although my hearing was probably impaired during the 20 or so years I'd played in bands before we even met. The thing is, she was generally quite softly spoken and I often had to ask her to repeat things and that sometime frustrated her but by the time she'd passed away last year, we'd been together for 35 years and I often wondered (and occasionally asked) how long it was going to be before the penny dropped that only she had the simple solution to this just by speaking slightly louder to me but the inference always seemed to be that I should somehow listen 'harder'(?) despite the fact that I rarely struggled to hear anyone else speaking. Anyone who's ever been married or in a long-term relationship knows that there are always compromises and behavioural adjustments to be made by both parties just to help things get along smoothly but clearly speaking a little louder is exempt. The irony in my wife's case was that she spent around 12 years as a 'befriender' for Age UK visiting elderly ladies who lived alone and I sometimes visited with her but every time I noticed that she spoke louder than normal to every one of them and only very rarely did she have to repeat anything.