Yep, I was diagnosed with the same, much to my surprise. I just thought that it was the rest of the world that weren't talking loud enough!!!!!!!!! Fortunately I am not at the hearing horn placed to the ear stage yet, although I have found myself saying eh a few times............

My husband is a drummer...when he was younger, he did not wear ear plugs while playing. He has significant hearing loss now. It is causing a lot of problems, especially since I have refused to be his mouthpiece when he can't hear or understand what people are saying. He has to wear headphones to watch TV since the volume would be so loud as to drown out or hurt the ears of others. I have made his getting a hearing aid a condition of my continuing our marriage...yes, it is THAT serious...think of all of the things I have asked him to do or told him and he can't hear any of it...

I, on the other hand, can hear a pin drop in the next room...the sound of a dripping faucet drives me crazy and I can hear my husband's car a few streets away....

I am interested in learning more about the best hearing aids for my husband...

You will save well over $2000.00 (!!!!!) by getting your hearing aids at a Costco with an audio shop....their people do not work on commission, so what they recommend is right...plus, best hearing test I had of the 3 places I researched, and they threw in a couple freebies (a drier, & a remote operator for changing conditions of sound) the same warranty, guarantee, free repairs/resets etc as everybody.

Yes the slow creep to decrepitude is upon us. Best to try and laugh about cause it's the road we are all on. I know there is some but since I still hear better than everyone around me I'm not concerned. It the other stuff, digestion changes, gas, aches and pain oh and vision changes. I gave up coloring my hair years ago. Need I go on? LOL Good morning, have another cuppa coffee.

Sorry

I sorry to hear that...I have a couple of friends who are suffering from hearing loss....it’s very common as we get older. One seems unaware of it and doesn’t appear to have gone to have her hearing assessed, sitting in a car with her is horrendous....she shouts so loudly and I have to do the same back, it reverberates around in the small confined space. My sympathies go with you.