If you experience these warning signs repeatedly or in combination, they may indicate a hearing loss.
- Asking others to repeat themselves
- Difficulty understanding a conversation when in a large group or crowd
- • Turning up the TV or radio to volume levels others find loud
- Having trouble understanding conversation in noisy places
- Feeling like other people mumble or slur their words
- Having trouble hearing women’s and children’s voices
- You find telephone conversation increasingly difficult
- You can no longer hear normal household sounds, such as the dripping of a faucet or the ringing of a doorbell
- Feeling more irritable or depressed
- Avoiding social situations that were once enjoyable
- Missing important information in meetings
- Being told by others that you have hearing loss
- Answer or respond inappropriately in conversations
- Read lips or more intently watch people’s faces when they speak with you
- Trouble hearing consonants
- Have difficulty hearing at the movies
- Experience ringing in your ear