Introduction
Personal stories about losing your hearing
Shock diagnosis leads to a world with sound for Leeds fashion designer
After spending most of her life coping well with being deaf in her left ear, it was just two years ago that 27 year old Leeds business woman Lucy Short was diagnosed as being deaf in both ears; a diagnosis she would have never thought could result in her hearing better than ever.
“Digital hearing aids have changed my life,” says Fife man
It was a routine whooping cough vaccination as a young child that left David Curran from Dunfermline, Fife, suffering with hearing loss and struggling with ill fitting hearing aids for more than 30 years. Now 36 years old and finally wearing suitable, comfortable hearing aids, David has a new found confidence and to the relief of his wife is no longer making up his own song lyrics!
Sudden hearing loss and tinnitus comes as a shock for Hertfordshire DJ
At just 39 years old, Conrad Jarvis from Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire was shocked when he felt the hearing in his left ear change dramatically, while listening to music on 17 January 2009. So sudden and unexpected was his hearing loss, Conrad initially thought he could be experiencing a fault on the headphones he was using, rather than actual damage to his ears.
Sudden hearing loss leaves Derbyshire woman devastated
Kathleen (real name protected), 44 years old from Belper, Derbyshire was born hard of hearing; but nothing could have prepared her for the shock of waking up one morning twelve years ago with sudden and unexplained hearing loss, or the devastation it would bring to her life.
Cheshire woman’s shock at waking up with sudden hearing loss and tinnitus
56 year old Pam Brown, from Stockport, Cheshire had lived with limited hearing in her right ear from her mid-twenties and had coped reasonably well; but nothing could have prepared her for the shock of waking up one morning with sudden hearing loss and unbearable tinnitus in her left ear.
Virus leaves woman with a future of hearing difficulties
It was during her early 30s that Marese Pitman was struck down with a virus that, combined with otosclerosis, left her with damaged nerves and progressively worsening hearing loss in both ears. Twenty years later, Marese, now 53 and living in Poole, has also started to experience tinnitus, but while this has been difficult to manage, she is feeling more positive following a recent visit to an ENT specialist.
