Hearing Loss Symptoms

Hearing loss occurs to most people as they age. Hearing loss can be due to the aging process, exposure to loud noise, certain medications, infections, head or ear trauma, congenital (birth or prenatal) or hereditary factors, diseases, as well as a number of other causes. In the year 2001, there are some 28 million people in the USA with hearing loss. Hearing loss is the single most common birth "defect" in America. Hearing loss in adults, particularly in seniors, is common.

The problem of hearing loss, if not since birth, is often a like a process than an occurrence. Other than due to accidental reasons, when the loss can be instantaneous, normally it is caused over a prolonged period of time. In the beginning the hearing loss can be deceptive; however, with time, it goes profound and start interfering with your ability to react to a sound and thus becomes prominent during conversational speech.

• Do you have trouble in hearing what others say?


• Do you feel that people around you have started mumbling?


• Do you steer up the TV volume to a level others start complaining?


• Do you feel blame your concentration as you hear less when it is bit noisy?


• Do your friends or family members complain about your hearing inability?


• Do people tell you that, off late, you have been talking loudly?


• You hear people speaking but you have to strain to understand their words.


• You frequently ask people to repeat what they said.


• You don't laugh at jokes because you miss too much of the story or the punch line.


• You frequently complain that people mumble.


• You need to ask others about the details of a meeting you just attended.


• You play the TV or radio louder than your friends, spouse and relatives.


• You cannot hear the doorbell or the telephone.


• You find that looking at people when they speak to you makes it easier to understand.