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10 Warning Signs of Hearing Loss you Should Never Ignore

Hearing is an essential part of our life. Age-related hearing loss is gradual and common to see in older adults.  Losing your hearing ability disturbs your quality of life. You can’t reverse your hearing loss. It can leave individuals depressed and sometimes can isolate people from social gatherings and while causing cognitive impairment. Talk to your doctor immediately if you face any of the above-said issues. Addressing it on-time with your doctor or hearing specialist will help improve your hearing ability to a greater extent. So, don’t hesitate from getting hearing tested. If medicines are prescribed, place an order from any trusted online pharmacy store in India.

Here are the 10 common warning signs that show you are losing your hearing ability. Read on the article and check whether you fall under the hearing loss umbrella.

Warning signs:

  • You may have trouble hearing on mobile or landline phone calls. You may try to increase the volume more and more, still, you may not understand the conversation. This may be due to hearing loss.
  • Constantly increasing your TV, radio or computer volume creates disturbance for your family members as well as to your neighbors. It’s the time you need to get your hearing tested.
  • Finding it difficult to follow the conversation with your co-workers or in any social gatherings. It can leave you strained and fatigued. This exhausted sensitivity can be a warning sign for hearing loss.
  • If you are repeatedly using the word “what” many times while in conversation with others could be a signal that you are heading to have hearing loss.
  • Trouble understanding the words or speech in noisy environments.
  • Tinnitus or ringing sound in the ears could also be one of the warning signs that you need to check through for losing your hearing ability.
  • Feeling the pressure in any one of the ears.
  • Pushing you more to concentrate and understand what others speak.
  • Difficulty in hearing women’s or children’s voices.
  • Carefully following the lip movement or completely depended on lip reading.
  • If you’re talking too loudly or too quietly.

When to consult a doctor:

If you have any of the above-mentioned signs, contact your doctor immediately. He may recommend a few diagnostic hearing tests and evaluation procedures. After your hearing assessment, your doctor can reveal the possible cause for the hearing loss and based on the evaluation report, your audiologist can frame a suitable treatment plan. He may suggest what suits the best for you and sometimes recommend you to wear a hearing aid to improve your aural abilities which in turn can make you stay happy. Never ignore any warning signs, the earlier the action, the better the treatment! You can place your medicine order online from any online medicine store and get your medicines delivered right to your doorstep.

Lakshmi Krishnanunni
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LAKSHMI KRISHNANUNNI

Lakshmi Krishnanunni: She holds M.Sc., M.Phil in Biochemistry and has strong proficiency in the areas of Immunology, Biomolecules, Cell biology, and Molecular biology to name a few. She has more than 10 years of Research experience in the field of medicinal plants research and Nanotechnology. Her expertise in research has greatly assisted in writing medical, health and research articles. As a writer, she aims to provide research-based information to the readers in more detail. In her spare time, she loves cooking and experiments with various cuisines, painting, travelling, listening to music and gardening.