How Does Hearing Loss Affect Your Life

How Does Hearing Loss Affect Your Life

Matt DearingHearing Loss

Hearing plays a big role in all of life’s most special moments. That’s why hearing loss can be so devastating. If you’re living with untreated hearing loss, you’ll start to notice changes in your family relationships, your work, and even your overall health. Here are just some of the ways that hearing loss affects your life.

Socializing at Home

Hearing loss has a major impact on your closest relationships. That’s because hearing is a huge part of communication. When you struggle to follow conversations, you and your loved ones lose the closeness of intimate moments. Even watching TV loses its joy since you can’t hear what’s being said. Hearing loss affects your relationships with loved ones.

Hearing in A Restaurant 

A lot of your social life happens in restaurants, cafes, or crowded bars. But what happens when you can’t follow conversations? Hearing loss makes it especially hard to hear in places with lots of background noise. 

While you might still be able to get by at home, at a restaurant it becomes a lot more obvious that you have hearing loss. You can’t seem to hear the person in front of you with all the ruckus around you. You feel embarrassed to ask people to repeat themselves, and you don’t want to be rude or say the wrong thing. More often than not, you decide to stay home alone and miss out. Hearing loss has a huge effect on your social life.  

Career Sliding Off Track

Hearing loss at work can put your career in jeopardy. Fast-paced work environments keep you on your toes. You have to communicate with coworkers, attend meetings, answer the phone, or stay safe on the jobsite. These tasks are all much harder with hearing loss. You’re more likely to make mistakes, mishear important instructions, or have an accident on the job. Struggling to hear definitely affects your career.

Trouble Traveling

Do you love to travel? Have you stopped traveling because of your hearing loss? You may worry about hearing the announcements in the airport or worry about missing your flight due to a gate change. Driving poses another safety risk, since you can’t hear all the sounds around the car. You might miss the sound of a car honking or some emergency sirens coming to the corner up ahead. All these safety issues get much worse when you’re in an unfamiliar city. Hearing loss affects your ability to enjoy traveling or travel safely. 

More Accidents and Hospitalizations

Hearing loss is also linked to more accidents and injuries. If you have hearing loss, you’re much more likely to find yourself in hospital. And the trouble doesn’t stop there. Hearing loss makes it hard to communicate easily with your doctors and nurses. You’re more likely to receive a misdiagnosis, and risk a higher rate of readmission after you go home. Hearing loss affects your overall health and wellbeing.

Taking Time Away from Hobbies

Hearing loss makes it hard to enjoy your favorite hobbies. Hearing is important for sound localization, so you can know where a sound is coming from without looking. Lots of sports and exercise rely on sound localization. Many sports and hobbies also rely on communication with teammates, and hearing loss disrupts easy communication. On top of that, hearing loss can even upset your balance, and you may not be as steady on your feet as you used to be. Hearing loss affects your leisure time, and you may not enjoy your hobbies, sports, or exercises.

Treating Hearing Loss to Get Your Life Back

Hearing loss has a number of negative effects on your everyday life. You used to take all these sounds for granted, but now it’s time to get back to hearing the voices of the grandkids in the yard, the traffic noise when you cross the road, and the speaker during a workplace meeting. Treating hearing loss will let you enjoy long conversations with your loved ones or playing sports with friends, talk on the phone or even visit a friend in another city. 

These everyday sounds are important, and without them you’ll feel limited. Get back to hearing all the sounds you’ve been missing and enjoy everyday activities and events. Quality hearing aids can help you do all these things and more so find your perfect hearing aids today!