Even though I was born hard of hearing, I was born in the hearing world. I had severe hearing loss in left ear and right ear was healthy.
Growing up, I never had issue with hearing. I could understand speech very well, didn’t have to lip-read. When I was 11, I had bad inner ear infections in my healthy right ear which dropped my hearing to 50%. But still from the age of 11 to 17, I didn’t have issues.
At 17, I purchased my first cic aid for right ear. That time I found it strange why the clinic wanted me to use aid in my good ear but not in my bad ear.
Anyway, I used aid in right ear from 17 to 23. I remember October 2013, I woke up and couldn’t hear nothing in right ear. Had hearing test and was told nothing can be done as loss is profound now.
I brought aid for left ear and this is where it has gone downhill. I cannot understand speech without lip-reading, cannot stand loud speech. I then panicked in 2013 and was implanted with cochlear implant. It hasn’t worked well for me and since 2014 have been using aid if left ear
Its just with the hearing aids, the programming needs to be spot on due to my small auditory range