Can you get by without the help of a hearing aid?
Sadly, if you’re like many people with hearing loss, you think that as long as you can hear well enough “to get by” you are doing fine. What you don’t realize is that hearing loss is unique and the extent of the condition can be hard to discern if you suffer from it you may even have to wear ear hearing aids just to hear properly. Hearing loss is a condition that frequently masks its actual severity. In the first few years of suffering from hearing loss it is unlikely you’ll even know you have it. It can delude you into thinking it is less severe than it actually is and you tell people that you are hearing well enough and doing just fine. But remember, you are the only one who is hearing what you hear. If you aren’t hearing correctly, you don’t know it. To you, what you hear is correct.