Common Signs & Symptoms
If you experience any or all of these symptoms, please see your physician.
Do you:
- Frequently have to ask for repetition?
- Have trouble hearing when spoken to from another room?
- Feel that you hear sound, but do not understand speech?
- Feel that people are mumbling?
- Have trouble hearing when there is noise around you?
- Need to turn the radio or TV volume up to hear well?
- Have difficulty hearing women’s or children’s voices?
- Have to turn one ear toward the person speaking?
- Have trouble hearing when you can’t see the speaker’s face?
- Need to be close to the person speaking?
- Become anxious or tired in social situations because you cannot understand what is being said?
- Have to strain to hear?
- Frequently misunderstand what is said?
- Have ringing or buzzing in your ear(s)?
Do others tell you that you:
- Do not react to loud sounds?
- Do not respond when spoken to?
- Speak loudly or shout in conversation?
- Are missing what is being said?
- Do not hear sounds coming from behind you?
- Have a change in your speech?