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Losing your hearing sucks
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 2:41 am
by DanielChamberlain
So, was at an outdoor concert tonight in our town.
Because the music was loud, I turned my hearing aids off.
A friend of mine came up and asked "Why'd people poop their pants?"
It was sorta weird I thought, but I went into an explanation of fecal incontinence, some of the common causes, potential remedies etc...
He looked at me strangely.
Then he yelled a little louder, "White people shouldn't dance..."
Re: Losing your hearing sucks
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 3:06 am
by Diver43
Shouldn't? I thought they can't
Re: Losing your hearing sucks
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 1:03 pm
by Freezer
I like my bifocals
My dentures fit me fine
My hearing aids are perfect
But Lord I miss my mind
Re: Losing your hearing sucks
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 5:00 pm
by PFD45
A friend told me about his new hearing aid. " I can hear a gnat fart with this thing".
I asked "What kind is it?"
He checked his watch and said "It's a quarter till two".
(rimshot)
Re: Losing your hearing sucks
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 12:10 am
by bullsi1911
What?
Re: Losing your hearing sucks
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 1:50 am
by Rugerfan
I finally got the hearing aid function on my AirPods set up. BIG MISTAKE!!! EVERY sound was amplified: my breathing, clothes rustling, my footsteps. It drove me crazy. I was hoping, for some reason, that it would only amplify voices. My right ear has very loud ringing so I can’t hear that well. Idk if I didn’t have them set right. But I am NOT in a hurry for hearing aids.
I understand now why my Dad didn’t like wearing his.
Re: Losing your hearing sucks
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 2:58 pm
by Freezer
Rugerfan wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 1:50 am
I finally got the hearing aid function on my AirPods set up. BIG MISTAKE!!! EVERY sound was amplified: my breathing, clothes rustling, my footsteps. It drove me crazy. I was hoping, for some reason, that it would only amplify voices. My right ear has very loud ringing so I can’t hear that well. Idk if I didn’t have them set right. But I am NOT in a hurry for hearing aids.
I understand now why my Dad didn’t like wearing his.
That has been my experience. I bought a set of inexpensive hearing aids just to try them out. They are amplifiers and not tuned to my specific hearing loss. I can hear the conversations on the TV now! I will be getting better hearing aids this winter but they're not cheap
Re: Losing your hearing sucks
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 3:29 pm
by jbp-ohio
I can hear my tinnitus just fine.
Re: Losing your hearing sucks
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 4:14 pm
by CPJ 2.0
Not hearing my wife, or pretending to not, that’s a pretty good thing about hearing loss.
Re: Losing your hearing sucks
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 4:30 pm
by breamfisher
jbp-ohio wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 3:29 pm
I can hear my tinnitus just fine.
Yep.
Re: Losing your hearing sucks
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 11:29 pm
by GrapeApe
jbp-ohio wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 3:29 pm
I can hear my tinnitus just fine.
Yep, and after a case of shingle that manifested around my left ear and the left side of my neck, it cranked my left ear's tinnitus up to 11
Re: Losing your hearing sucks
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2025 1:03 am
by jbp-ohio
Only takes a window a/c and a box fan by my head to go to sleep.
Also have the ceiling fan on for a breeze. Not for noise.
Re: Losing your hearing sucks
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2025 7:28 am
by Wambli Ska
CPJ 2.0 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 4:14 pm
Not hearing my wife, or pretending to not, that’s a pretty good thing about hearing loss.
When my audiologist announced the results of my hearing test to my wife and I he said all my hearing loss is in the high end and that would make it difficult, as an example, to hear women voices.
She glared at me…. I just sat there and
Re: Losing your hearing sucks
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2025 2:43 am
by Bigslug
The vision problems are worse. I don't miss hearing what most people have to say anyway.
