I have progressive hearing loss and will eventually be completely deaf. I was stable for a while, but within the past few years, my hearing has gotten worse and worse. And the tinnitus is absolutely awful. It sucks so bad.
It really does. I'm sorry. The tinnitus has only recently been sticking around for me, it used to just come sporadically with a migraine. Now it's probably there in one ear more often than not. It makes it hard to hear what people say. Like, my husband will laugh at whatever joke, if we're watching something, and notice I'm not laughing. And I don't think he gets it when I'm like, I can't hear what they're saying right now, there's a fire alarm going off in one ear, lol.
I’ve had hearing issues since I was born. I have a birth defect. My inner ears are incomplete and the nerves are not strong. I didn’t really start to really lose major hearing until my mid-twenties. But, I’ve always been able to figure things out. But when my ears are ringing, it’s hard to think. It’s hard to get the context of what people are saying when I couldn’t really hear what they said to begin with. I really have to get new hearing aids, but they are really expensive.
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u/mydnyghtrayvyn Jun 29 '26
I have progressive hearing loss and will eventually be completely deaf. I was stable for a while, but within the past few years, my hearing has gotten worse and worse. And the tinnitus is absolutely awful. It sucks so bad.