Hearing Loss Symptoms in Queensland

Be Aware of the Symptoms

In most cases, hearing loss is a gradual decline over a number of years. It is less common to lose a large portion of your hearing instantly. For this reason, it is often difficult to tell if your hearing is deteriorating. You simply do not know what you are missing when you don’t hear it. Family and friends are often the first to notice that you may be having trouble hearing and suggest that you have it checked. Some symptoms are:

• Needing increased television and radio volume

• Finding it hard to understand speech, especially in noisy environments

• People sound like they are mumbling to you and not speaking clearly

• Finding telephone conversations difficult

• Asking people to repeat themselves frequently

• Avoiding social activities because you can’t understand people

Hearing Loss Categories

Hearing Loss is often categorised as:

• Mild hearing loss: you find one-on-one conversation easy to follow with no issues but background noise makes it hard to follow the conversation; family and friends may be telling you the television is too loud or that you are speaking loudly

• Moderate hearing loss: you find yourself asking people to repeat themselves more often during conversation; telephone interactions are more difficult

• Severe hearing loss: you can’t follow conversation easily without hearing amplification

• Profound hearing loss: a person is not speaking very loudly and you cannot understand them; you require a hearing device to be able to hear speech in conversations