Symptoms of Untreated Hearing Loss
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Hearing loss results in a degraded and distorted encoding of sound information. These distortions can exhaust and mislead the brain resulting in the following social and emotion symptoms.
Social Symptoms of hearing loss:
• Say pardon? frequently.
• difficulty following conversations involving more than 2 people.
• think that other people are mumbling.
• difficulty hearing in noisy environments, like restaurants.
• difficulty hearing children and women.
• need the TV or radio turned up to a high volume.
• answer or respond inappropriately in conversations.
• ringing in the ears.
• read lips more intently.
Emotional symptoms of hearing loss:
• feel stressed from straining to hear speech.
• feel annoyed with other people because you can't hear or understand them.
• feel embarrassed to meet new people
• feel embarrassed from misunderstanding what others are saying.
• feel nervous about trying to hear and understand.
• withdraw from social situations that you once enjoyed because of difficulty hearing.
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