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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Posts: 151
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My bilateral hearing loss started when I was in my late 30s, not my earliest symptom, but not too far behind.
Loss is severe now, profound in a very few ranges, and is accompanied by what are probably cognitive issues, i.e word and sound processing problems as well as, during bad periods or days, pain with loud noises.
Degree of "processing" ability does seem to change a little with good days/bad days, and with what I now know were exacerbations. The actual loss is irreversible.
Hearing impairment has, until recently, been the hardest to deal with as it has left dh and me very isolated. Fortunately, he has always been reclusive and over the years, prior to major impairment, I had already slowed down on my social "flitting"  so it hasn't been as awful an adjustment as it might have been. 
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