What was that, dear?

Speaking of tuning out, Gael, it can turn quite comical around here when the wife and I have our hearing aids out, like first thing in the morning. Neither of us puts their aids in until we have washed and gotten dressed for the day.

The whats and huhs flying around can get annoying as well as funny.

Hon, what? Are you ready for your coffee, huh? Louder....are you ready for your coffee?
Yes I am, what? I said, louder, yes I am.

It never ends, and I hope it never does.
 
I am a bit deaf in my left ear due to scarring from untreated ear infections as a kid. If I am in a crowded place I find conversation difficult as I can't tune out extraneous sound.
 
Funny these resourcers never mention :

Sound is collected by the pinna (the visible part of the ear) and directed through the outer ear canal. The sound makes the eardrum vibrate, which in turn causes a series of three tiny bones (the hammer, the anvil, and the stirrup) in the middle ear to vibrate. The vibration is transferred to the snail-shaped cochlea in the inner ear; the cochlea is lined with sensitive hairs which trigger the generation of nerve signals that are sent to the brain.
 
Pappy said:
Speaking of tuning out, Gael, it can turn quite comical around here when the wife and I have our hearing aids out, like first thing in the morning. Neither of us puts their aids in until we have washed and gotten dressed for the day.

The whats and huhs flying around can get annoying as well as funny.



Hon, what? Are you ready for your coffee, huh? Louder....are you ready for your coffee?
Yes I am, what? I said, louder, yes I am.

It never ends, and I hope it never does.
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Pappy!
My husand is very deaf. But it requires me saying things at least twice or more many times as he won't work with a hearing aid.

I may join him soon due to hearing damage from his blasting the tv!!:mad:
 
Davey Jones said:
Funny these resourcers never mention :

Sound is collected by the pinna (the visible part of the ear) and directed through the outer ear canal. The sound makes the eardrum vibrate, which in turn causes a series of three tiny bones (the hammer, the anvil, and the stirrup) in the middle ear to vibrate. The vibration is transferred to the snail-shaped cochlea in the inner ear; the cochlea is lined with sensitive hairs which trigger the generation of nerve signals that are sent to the brain.
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My husband had diptheria as a child in the 30s and he wound up losing all hearing in one ear with damage to the other. But he did escape with his life at least as it was a killer.

He probably has a mess of what you describe in his ear. They say he has like nothing in it.
 
The new smart TVs that are equipped with Blue Tooth can be use with ones hearing aids if they are comparable. My aids have the BT feature and I can listen to my Ipad music and not bother anyone. Can also hold a phone conversation if they are turned on. Might work for you Gael.
I didn't explain it too well but you could google the info.
 
Pappy said:
The new smart TVs that are equipped with Blue Tooth can be use with ones hearing aids if they are comparable. My aids have the BT feature and I can listen to my Ipad music and not bother anyone. Can also hold a phone conversation if they are turned on. Might work for you Gael.
I didn't explain it too well but you could google the info.
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Now that's what we need!!
 
Justme said:
I am a bit deaf in my left ear due to scarring from untreated ear infections as a kid. If I am in a crowded place I find conversation difficult as I can't tune out extraneous sound.
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I have not suffered any significant ear damage that I'm aware, but I've had this same problem most of my life. I really don't even try to converse in a high ambient noise environment. I can hear the voice well, I just can't separate what the words are from all the other sounds. Oddly, if it's quiet, I seem to have much better hearing than my wife, who has no trouble in crowds.

Interestingly, and I'm not sure what it means, I had to take a hearing test, when i was young, for one of my jobs and I got to accidentally see the chart from the person ahead of me. They put me in a sound proof booth with earphones on. They played a very slight tone in increasing volume. I was supposed to press the button as soon as I heard it, at which time it would start decreasing, and then release the button when I heard it disappear. So the result was a curvy line plotting the volume of the tone against time. No surprises there. But when I saw the other person's, theirs was the same curvy line but the swings (amplitude) were much, much smaller than mine. It's like it took longer for something to break my hearing threshhold but when it finally did, I could keep track of the sound for longer. I've often wondered if this way I perceive and process sounds has some relationship to why I can't understand people in high background noise environments.
 
RC,
You probably have what is known as Sensorineural Nerve Deafness,I have had this since the age of 3,
Those that have it say "I can hear but dont understand".
I had the advantage because I got at age 3 and got quite adapted to the "hearing" world.I can speech read just about any person talking to me.

Those hearing aid dealers that tell you it will help with your hearing is false and misleading.

http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/sensorineural-hearing-loss/
 
Davey Jones, interesting. I read the symptoms (googled some more info) and that does sound like an almost perfect description. I used to shoot competitively but I always wore ear valves. I only remember one time experiencing pain when someone next to me fired a large cal. revolver and I didn't have the ear device on his side seated properly. I also played in a rock band for a while but again, nothing I ever noticed as bothering me. Maybe I was just born this way. At any rate, very interesting. Thanks for the reply.
 
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