Hearing loss often takes place gradually.
Your family members and colleagues may notice you’re having trouble hearing before
you do.
These are some of the most common signs of hearing loss.
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Hearing loss can be sudden, after being exposed to a loud bang, a side effect of certain types of medications or through injury. More often, its onset is slow.
One of the most common symptoms of hearing loss is the inability to hear high-pitched tones, such as female voices, or the high-pitched tones in speech, like the letters F, H, S, and TH. Words like “feather” and “frost” are suddenly very hard to hear.
The sounds of nature may also seem to have disappeared. If you can no longer hear birds sing or the sound of raindrops on the roof, this could be another sign of hearing loss.
