Issue 22.12
Probably the most frequent complaint we hear as hearing and balance specialists from our male patients is that their wife mumbles when she talks. Of course, women don’t mumble when they speak, but most men with this complaint have hearing loss in the high frequency range of their hearing. Since women have high pitch voices, their wife’s voice may sound like they are mumbling when they talk. Children also have high pitch voices so their fathers and grandfathers may have difficulty understanding their voices.
Exposure to loud noise attacks the hearing nerves responsible for hearing in the high frequency range. People who shoots guns, hunt, use chain saws, operate heavy equipment or have served in the military may be experiencing this type of high frequency hearing loss. Also, ringing in the ears is usually a sign of nerve damage in the inner ear.
If you have ringing in your ears, or a problem understanding your wife, daughters, or grandchildren especially in a group setting, it may be well to see a clinical audiologist for a hearing evaluation.
People with hearing problems may tend to withdraw from their spouse, children or grandchild, church, friends or become irritable or embarrassed because they are afraid of asking others to repeat themselves.
Many times, a hearing loss causes the greatest frustration to the spouse and family than it does to the person with the hearing problem. Many marriage relationships have been healed simply be improving hearing well.
If I don’t wear my hearing instruments when I am with my family, I feel like a am missing a few bricks out of my load and that I am not all there. When I am wearing my instruments when I with my wife and children and grandchildren, I feel like I am a complete person and I enjoy my family much more and I don’t tend to withdraw.
Please call today for a Free consultation and 75 day risk-free trial period with a new improved enjoyment of your family. Call 688-8866, Kimball B Forbes, Clinical Audiologist. Enjoy Better Hearing again.