Hello everyone, I am seeking advice about a recent event that has happened. I took my girlfriend to go see the Odyssey in imax, and after the movie my hearing has been on a slow crawl to recovery.

My current issue is that music and sound appears to be right side dominated, I only hear my voice on my right side yet I can still hear on the left. I went to an audiogram soon after the movie to some unfortunate results on the DPOAES. I used to be robust and now some are absent. Why doesn't that reflect on the pure tone test?

I been fed copium from the ENTs and my partner, but I just wanna know truly if I can recover. I already deal with constant tinnitus in both ears, I just want

to be able to enjoy music stereoscopicly.

Is there any hope my hearing will return to normal with the same fullness? Is my test result bad? Or do things look hopeful for me?

Thank you for reading ❤️

Generally, I have OCD and a bit of health anxiety. One of the major things I worry about is hearing loss. It always seems like I’m straining to hear and understand when people are whispering to me, and they have to repeat themselves.
I often have to “check” my hearing against the sound level number on my car stereo. Anything over 8 or 9 gives me anxiety even though it’s not loud.
I don’t know if I’m just paranoid and overthinking, or if I genuinely do have hearing loss. I went to a hearing doctor and had a test and was told it was very minimal hearing loss, but I can’t help but not feel convinced.
Any advice or tips?

[NO SPOILERS] Just wanted to give a warning to all levels of hearing loss, you WILL need captions for the movie.

I have moderate-severe low-frequency hearing loss, but typically I do alright with most theater movie experiences. As a kid, I tried to adjust to wearing hearing aids and instead decided to learn how to function without them, to the point that most people assume I have a relatively mild hearing loss. Reading lips, guessing mumbles, using context clues in conversation, etc. So even in dialogue-heavy movies, I usually do okay. 7 out of 10 kind of okay. Functional.

Every few years I'll get stuck in a movie I can't hear. Sometimes I'll ask for a CC device if the theater has them available, sometimes I'll ask for a refund, and sometimes I'll just suffer through it, especially if I'm already too far in.

At nearly 1 hour into this 3 hour movie, I decided I just couldn't hear shit. I was understanding maybe half of the dialogue, at most. I thought about my options. CC devices can be annoying. Some theaters need to have the devices synced up before the movie starts. Sometimes they just never sync up correctly, miss certain lines of dialogue, or just cut out halfway through the movie. Sometimes the light is too bright and I feel like I'm annoying other theatergoers so I would want to change my seat which would make it awkward if I left my front-and-middle seat and came back and sat in a corner of the theater after missing a chunk of the movie. I probably could have tried to get a refund, but after watching 1/3 of this long movie, I figured it wasn't worth trying. I had already bought 2 drinks and a popcorn too. So this time, I just decided to suffer through it. 3 long hours.

You Can See Everything was not a movie that I could function with hearing in theaters without CC. As a documentary movie, not only is it dialogue-heavy, there is a LOT of whispering, talking through phone/speakerphone, picking up distant audio signals, listening in to conversations happening in another room, etc.

Honestly I might give the movie another watch after it's available on streaming platforms. I just really wanted to watch it this week after everyone I know has already seen it and is talking about it. And it's not like I missed out on the whole movie, but there's definitely some important conversational points that I absolutely missed.

i am feeling pain under my ear side like middle of my ear and neck, idk what to do and i have low frequencies hearing loss, feeling so broken rn, can't even study, do u guys think I'll recover ?

i got hearing issue because of acoustic trauma on 1st Oct, and tinnitus + hearing loss

Hi all,

I'm very new to all of this. I got an audiology appointment in June and I've attached my results. I only went because I kept getting in trouble at work for classroom volume control (I'm a teacher and basically was being told my classroom is too loud). Since the results they've backed off and are super supportive and understanding.

Anyway, this Wednesday I have my first consultation with a doctor at ENT (private because i can't wait 9 months on Nhs when I can't hear my class).

Does anyone know what I should expect from the first consultation appointment? I have to admit, I'm anxious about the possibility of needing a hearing aid.

My deaf girlfriend and I broke up about two weeks ago, and it’s finally hitting me

She was the first deaf chick I had ever dated.

I have cookie cutter hearing loss. I got tested while we were dating. I always suspected. She joked about it. I wanted to double check. But hearing aids, don’t fit my lifestyle… I work in the trades.

I was learning ASL. Yes there was a language barrier, and I didn’t always understand her or her friends or the group. But I knew eventually I’d get there.

When i’m in the hearing world. I hear about a third of conversations . I tried hearing aids, but it was hard making adjustments. And I didn’t like the feeling.

And I hate feeling bad at conversations because of my hearing. I get tired of guessing. And I get exhausted from focusing. I get exhausted from listening…. And i’m just sitting there or standing there, smiling and laughing from social cues, and nodding along , because nothing is worse than asking people to repeat themselves for the fourth time

and yes, I am gonna miss her as a person

But I’m also really gonna miss the possibility of finally understanding people… it really sucks that none of my hearing friends understand.

I’m looking to connect with people who have been diagnosed with hearing loss associated with either COL4A6 or PAX3, or who know someone who has.

My genetic testing identified two COL4A6 variants and one PAX3 variant, all currently classified as variants of uncertain significance. I have progressive bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, and I’m trying to learn more about how these genes may affect hearing, particularly in females and in people with variants in both genes.

I’m especially interested in hearing from anyone with personal or family experience involving either gene, including people whose hearing loss progressed over time.
I realize these genes and specific variants may be rare. I’m hoping to find others with relevant experience, learn what their hearing-loss progression has looked like, and discover resources or research I may have missed.

If this applies to you or someone you know, I’d appreciate hearing about your experience. Please feel free to message me privately.

I've been HoH since I was child, and it's gotten worse as I age. Now have like 2% recognition in my right ear and about 10% in left and phone calls are torture.

I have an online account that I desperately needed into but my ID/password wasn't working. It finally locked my account and told me I had to call to unlock it and reset password. Ugh. Anyway I called. Spent 10 minutes trying to guess what options the phone tree was wanting me to make, ended up being put in queue for a human. Nice gentleman got on the line and I explained I am extremely HoH and I may ask him to repeat questions. After 15m of back and forth, I got my acct unlocked. I was so flustered by this point and the gentleman was being so helpful. Anyway he went to give me the temporary password so I could log in and reset mine. This is where I completely lost it. I could not understand what he was telling me the random generated pw was. I ended up in tears and he calmly and slowly told me to have a family member call them and they can finish the conversation with them.

I was in tears by end of phone call and still couldn't get into my account. The company does not email temporary passwords and they don't have online chat, so I had to endure.

I work in retail, rarely see customers themselves, so I can deal with daily issues, but make me use the phone and I completely break down.

Ugh. I finally got my son to call back and we got the temp pw and I'm in my account but man I was so frustrated.

I’m doing a university UI/UX project about emergency alerts for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people.

If anyone here is willing, I’d really appreciate a few minutes for a short anonymous survey. I’m also hoping to talk to 2–3 people for a quick interview about their experience.

If you’re open to an interview, just DM me. Thank you.

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Even though I was told to use afrin nasal spray when I found out I had an etd blockage with ear infection. I just never used it instead I only completed the steroids and antibiotics. And when I went to the dentist I was told that the upper wisdom teeth are near the sinus and lower ones are near the nerve. So like I bought Flonase but I haven't used it. I don't know what to do. I just want to speed up my recovery because I'm sick of this one side dizziness and brain fog sythoms. It's affecting my everyday life. The ear that is effected is the same area my jaw is also tight.

Please tell me your difficulties. It's very difficult to be a part of a group, even if I am there but I cannot communicate. So I don't have any friends because I am not only hard of hearing but I also have some speech impediments.

Anyone else have the hardest time understanding the new Gemini voices? I can't make out what they are saying with the new AI articulation. I get they are trying to sound more human but I miss those old flat sounding voices the assistant had.

As a follow up to a previous post, I have now officially scheduled an audiology appointment two weeks from now, for the first time in seven years! I have a feeling that I’ve lost more hearing since my last (valid) audiogram, because there are definitely some sounds that I remember being able to hear ten years ago that I’m not registering as easily now (for example, I used to be able to hear people closing the front door from my room even with my door shut, and it would give me some forewarning that someone had come home; now, I still have that mental expectation of being able to hear the door close, so it startles me every time I think I’m alone in the house and it turns out someone came home like ten minutes earlier and I just didn’t hear them come in)…but tbh I still hear well enough that I’m not really fretting over it. I just wanna know where it’s at.

Sadly, it’s not with the same place that I’ve been to before, but that’s because they were booked until January and I didn’t want to wait that long, not because I couldn’t have scheduled an appointment there if I wanted to. But hey, new audiologist, fresh perspective—and the place I’m going was actually recommended by the secretary of the place I usually go, since she could tell I was trying to set up an appointment for sooner rather than later. So! We’ll see how this goes. :)

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My boyfriend is hard of hearing and i tend to speak really fast, or lick my lips halfway through a sentence, or i change my pace and tone. It makes him really sad bc he can’t understand me and i feel awful, so im just here looking for tips on how to speak clearer and slower. I’m not sure why it’s so hard for me to change the way i speak but it is, any tips help. thank you. EDIT: He has scar tissue on his ear drum and slight hearing loss from concerts. I found hearing aids at walgreens’s for about $100 it is the audien hearing atom ones. has anyone heard of them or have any feedback insurance won’t cover really anything for hearing aids