Do you use Close Captioning when you watch TV?

[Bigun]

Don'tcha just love how people always seem to stand on the wrong side when they want to talk to you?

  My wife goes out of her way to make sure I'm sitting in the right place if we are with friends.

[Cyber Liberty]

My wife goes out of her way to make sure I'm sitting in the right place if we are with friends.

I am at the stage where hearing aids don't help much and I tell people to look at me when they are talking to me. so I can fill in what I don't hear with lip reading.

I can hear fairly well, but the Tinnitus makes it hard to understand the soft speakers. Videos are almost impossible.

[Bigun]

I am at the stage where hearing aids don't help much and I tell people to look at me when they are talking to me. so I can fill in what I don't hear with lip reading.

I can hear fairly well, but the Tinnitus makes it hard to understand the soft speakers. Videos are almost impossible.

I can handle videos by using an ear bud or headset, but I don't have Tinnitus.

Crowds are impossible for me.

[GtHawk]

I can handle videos by using an ear bud or headset, but I don't have Tinnitus.

Crowds are impossible for me.

I have Tinnitus and profound hearing loss and even the noise of moderate gathering of family can overwhelm me and make me very aggravated so that I have to leave the room or area. I have hearing aids but no matter how I try to tune them all they seem to do is amplify everything and make it worse

[sneakypete]

I have Tinnitus and profound hearing loss and even the noise of moderate gathering of family can overwhelm me and make me very aggravated so that I have to leave the room or area. I have hearing aids but no matter how I try to tune them all they seem to do is amplify everything and make it worse

@GtHawk

That is why I threw mine away years ago.

THINKING about checking out some new ones,though. The ones I got came from the VA,so you know  they were the cheapest ones available.

I now need them a lot more than I needed them before,so I might try getting a pair from a commercial source.

[Bigun]

I have Tinnitus and profound hearing loss and even the noise of moderate gathering of family can overwhelm me and make me very aggravated so that I have to leave the room or area. I have hearing aids but no matter how I try to tune them all they seem to do is amplify everything and make it worse

Yeah! I get that! Boy! Do I ever get that!

[bigheadfred]

I don't use close captioning. It doesn't have a Braille edition.

[roamer_1]

I can handle videos by using an ear bud or headset, but I don't have Tinnitus.

Crowds are impossible for me.

@Bigun
I kinda have that crowd thing... Talking to someone in a crowd... I think I can hear them fine. I think my brain is having trouble with interpretation against all the background. I get tinnitus off and on again. Can't hear high stuff so well... Too much time around machinery and guns.

But that has it's benefits. I can't hear a naggin woman. at all... God may have some planning in that 

I'll tell you what though... I didn't know how much I rely on lip reading and facial expression for interpretation purposes until this whole mask thing. I find it really difficult to understand someone in a mask.

[Bigun]

@Bigun
I kinda have that crowd thing... Talking to someone in a crowd... I think I can hear them fine. I think my brain is having trouble with interpretation against all the background. I get tinnitus off and on again. Can't hear high stuff so well... Too much time around machinery and guns.

But that has it's benefits. I can't hear a naggin woman. at all... God may have some planning in that 

I'll tell you what though... I didn't know how much I rely on lip reading and facial expression for interpretation purposes until this whole mask thing. I find it really difficult to understand someone in a mask.

  To ALL of that!

[Lando Lincoln]

@Bigun

I'll tell you what though... I didn't know how much I rely on lip reading and facial expression for interpretation purposes until this whole mask thing. I find it really difficult to understand someone in a mask.

True for me as well. The masks clipped the frequencies where I’m most challenged. So difficult.

The best hearing centers I have visited are at Costco.  I’ve been to several and they are outstanding.

Can anyone recommend a telephone landline handset that provides clarity?  We still have ours and I hate it.

[sneakypete]

True for me as well. The masks clipped the frequencies where I’m most challenged. So difficult.

The best hearing centers I have visited are at Costco.  I’ve been to several and they are outstanding.

Can anyone recommend a telephone landline handset that provides clarity?  We still have ours and I hate it.

@Lando Lincoln

I never knew I had been lip-reading until everybody started wearing masks,and I had no idea what  they were talking  about. All I could hear was noise,not words.

[roamer_1]

True for me as well. The masks clipped the frequencies where I’m most challenged. So difficult.

The best hearing centers I have visited are at Costco.  I’ve been to several and they are outstanding.

There's a thing... I don't know and can't recommend... But higher end earbuds are developing a pass-through sound feature, which is basically for being able to hear ambient sound THROUGH the earbuds, with vol control and mixing... So you can say, be listening to music walking down a sidewalk and still be aware of things around you.

I don't know how any of it works at all, but for folks that have hearing issues close to needing aids, maybe that's a cheap hearing aid, or enough assistance that the real thing might be pushed off a while.

Like I said, I don't know nothin.

Can anyone recommend a telephone landline handset that provides clarity?  We still have ours and I hate it.

I don't have a recommendation but I DO have a feature recommendation: My Landline phones are wireless, and I always look for a earphone jack on the handset so I can plug in wired earbuds.

Best headset phone I ever had was Plantronix... Superfine... But it's a business phone and always spendy. And it was long ago... It had a tiny handset that clipped to my belt and a dedicated wired headset that came up from that. Always gave superior sound and control.

[roamer_1]

@Lando Lincoln

I never knew I had been lip-reading until everybody started wearing masks,and I had no idea what  they were talking  about. All I could hear was noise,not words.

I know, right? It's weird.

[Polly Ticks]

Don'tcha just love how people always seem to stand on the wrong side when they want to talk to you?

Yes!  It drives me crazy.

Having said that, in certain social situations I will sometimes put my husband on the wrong side, since he's aware of the issue, and put other folks on my "good" ear to give me a better chance of actually understanding them.  And if I don't, my husband will generally either translate for me or answer them himself ... which I greatly appreciate.

Of course, that's in social settings.  At home, he mumbles.  Or tries to talk to me from another room.  Or says something to me with his back turned, his hand over his mouth, or as he's walking away.   

Hearing loss is NO fun.

[Bigun]

Yes!  It drives me crazy.

Having said that, in certain social situations I will sometimes put my husband on the wrong side, since he's aware of the issue, and put other folks on my "good" ear to give me a better chance of actually understanding them.  And if I don't, my husband will generally either translate for me or answer them himself ... which I greatly appreciate.

Of course, that's in social settings.  At home, he mumbles.  Or tries to talk to me from another room.  Or says something to me with his back turned, his hand over his mouth, or as he's walking away.   

Hearing loss is NO fun.

My wife and I have been married for a very long time, (55 yrs) but the hearing loss thing is testing the limits.  I'll just leave it right there.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

My wife and I have been married for a very long time, (55 yrs) but the hearing loss thing is testing the limits.  I'll just leave it right there.

Have you looked into cochlear implants?

[Polly Ticks]

My wife and I have been married for a very long time, (55 yrs) but the hearing loss thing is testing the limits.  I'll just leave it right there.

I was diagnosed with my disease and had the first of my ear surgeries in my late 20's.  I'm quite bit older than that now and we're still married, so I'm sure you'll make it, too!   

[Bigun]

Have you looked into cochlear implants?

I have no auditory nerve behind my right ear due to it having been surgically removed along with the tumor that was growing from it so no possibility of implant. My left ear still functions with the hearing aid but that is only good if I'm pointed in the right direction.  I seriously doubt an implant would improve the situation.

[Bigun]

I was diagnosed with my disease and had the first of my ear surgeries in my late 20's.  I'm quite bit older than that now and we're still married, so I'm sure you'll make it, too!   

She is a fine lady but even those get tested sometimes. We are good!

[Kamaji]

I have no auditory nerve behind my right ear due to it having been surgically removed along with the tumor that was growing from it so no possibility of implant. My left ear still functions with the hearing aid but that is only good if I'm pointed in the right direction.  I seriously doubt an implant would improve the situation.

Have you tried the cross-over hearing aids?

[GtHawk]

Yes!  It drives me crazy.

Having said that, in certain social situations I will sometimes put my husband on the wrong side, since he's aware of the issue, and put other folks on my "good" ear to give me a better chance of actually understanding them.  And if I don't, my husband will generally either translate for me or answer them himself ... which I greatly appreciate.

Of course, that's in social settings.  At home, he mumbles.  Or tries to talk to me from another room.  Or says something to me with his back turned, his hand over his mouth, or as he's walking away.   

Hearing loss is NO fun.

I have had hearing issues for decades with constant degradation right side effectively zero, my wife is having A-fib issues so can't drive, which puts her on my right side. Well she puts the music sound up and then talks to me in a normal conversational level...and then she gets frustrated when I can't hear her I also get the same with with back turned or so low it comes across as a mumble. What was really frustrating was that for years  she would say I was just making up the hearing issue because I was ignoring what she said.........................maybe

[Bigun]

Have you tried the cross-over hearing aids?

Yes! And I can tell you that they are not what they're cracked up to be at present, but the technology IS evolving.

[Bigun]

I have had hearing issues for decades with constant degradation right side effectively zero, my wife is having A-fib issues so can't drive, which puts her on my right side. Well she puts the music sound up and then talks to me in a normal conversational level...and then she gets frustrated when I can't hear her I also get the same with with back turned or so low it comes across as a mumble. What was really frustrating was that for years  she would say I was just making up the hearing issue because I was ignoring what she said.........................maybe

If you haven't done so already, you need to go and see an ENT to make sure you don't have the same issue I did on my right side (Vestibular Schwannoma) @GtHawk Had I not done that 5 years ago I would not be here today.

[Kamaji]

Yes! And I can tell you that they are not what they're cracked up to be at present, but the technology IS evolving.

Fair enough.  I have a family member who used them and liked them; it's my understanding that it's an intensely personal thing, though.