Now, now I'm kinda pissed.

[conuly]

For a few months, my hearing has comparatively sucked. It wasn't up to my standards of hearing. I had a few colds, a little congestion, and the weather was weird, and I noticed that I couldn't hear as well as I should.

Well, one adapts. Among other things, I got to the point where I couldn't hear background noise that much at all. Didn't really notice, though.

In the past two weeks, my hearing has suddenly gone back to what I suspect it's normally at. Which is fine, I *like* to hear everything - but my comprehension has, accordingly, gone way down. I hear everything people are saying, but I don't understand them anymore, and it's really annoying. I can't tell, but I think this is how I heard before - I just can't understand what I'm hearing at the moment, either because I'm not used to it anymore (please!) or because things are working a bit funny right now (which I hope isn't the case, because if that *is* the case, there's no guarantee it'll fix itself the same way it got broken in the first place) and either way, right now, it really sucks.

Comments

[peebs1701.livejournal.com]

Since you had the very mild hearing loss a relatively short time your comprehension should be back up to 100% very soon. Your brain just has to get used to filtering things out the way it used to. It's when people have hearing loss for a long time before they get help that comprehension stays down.

[conuly]

My brain doesn't normally filter stuff out like everybody else, I suspect - so it's possible even that this is my normal state and I've largely forgotten.

I'm both fascinated and horrified by this possibility, as you might imagine.

At any rate, I'll keep everybody posted when it seems things have settled down, hearingwise.

[conuly]

But thank you - if things change within a week, I'll go "Gee, she was right this whole time!!! YAY!!!!" and be all happy :)

[stexgirl2000.livejournal.com]

Can you get your hearing checked out by a doctor? Just to see if it was a temporary hearing loss or something that you might need to get taken care of?

If you find that you adjust quickly to your hearing being back to normal, you still might want to make sure that your hearing is in a normal range, just to be on the safe side.

[conuly]

Given that people are routinely surprised by what I can hear (as in "Wow! You heard those guys talking? But they're all the way down the block!" or "You heard that kitten outside from way up in the attic????"), I think it's fairly safe to say that either the folks I know have really bad hearing, or my hearing is definitely not in the most normal of ranges. Normally, that is.

Could be both, I don't know.

Even with my hearing being "bad", I still could hear things other people say they couldn't - people talking normally across the street and the windows closed in my apartment, bugs crawling on a chip bag in the garbage, that sort of thing.

[adina77.livejournal.com]

YOu can have my hearing aids if you want. I can't stand them! I need newer ones

[peebs1701.livejournal.com]

Since you had the very mild hearing loss a relatively short time your comprehension should be back up to 100% very soon. Your brain just has to get used to filtering things out the way it used to. It's when people have hearing loss for a long time before they get help that comprehension stays down.

[conuly]

My brain doesn't normally filter stuff out like everybody else, I suspect - so it's possible even that this is my normal state and I've largely forgotten.

I'm both fascinated and horrified by this possibility, as you might imagine.

At any rate, I'll keep everybody posted when it seems things have settled down, hearingwise.

[conuly]

But thank you - if things change within a week, I'll go "Gee, she was right this whole time!!! YAY!!!!" and be all happy :)

[stexgirl2000.livejournal.com]

Can you get your hearing checked out by a doctor? Just to see if it was a temporary hearing loss or something that you might need to get taken care of?

If you find that you adjust quickly to your hearing being back to normal, you still might want to make sure that your hearing is in a normal range, just to be on the safe side.

[conuly]

Given that people are routinely surprised by what I can hear (as in "Wow! You heard those guys talking? But they're all the way down the block!" or "You heard that kitten outside from way up in the attic????"), I think it's fairly safe to say that either the folks I know have really bad hearing, or my hearing is definitely not in the most normal of ranges. Normally, that is.

Could be both, I don't know.

Even with my hearing being "bad", I still could hear things other people say they couldn't - people talking normally across the street and the windows closed in my apartment, bugs crawling on a chip bag in the garbage, that sort of thing.

[adina77.livejournal.com]

YOu can have my hearing aids if you want. I can't stand them! I need newer ones