And what is your word recognition score?
It might be that you can hear pure tones, or better said, feel it or hear distorted, but that’s far from good enough to have good word comprehension, because spoken words are so much more complex than pure tones used for test.
And our brain can struggle do decipher the proper information out of it.
WRS gives a bit more information.
Also, some sentence in noise test result will give additional information.
So far I’ve never heard about someone’s hearing getting better with age, so yeah, getting worse is unfortunately expected.
If you can find a fitter who will do proper testing.
https://drcliffaud.com/ > resources > checklist will give you good overview of what’s needed for proper hearing assesment
And from that with good fitter you’ll get the information what’s wrong, and if it can be helped.
For example, if you have something like this:
then unfortunately, no aids can really help with that, because no aid can repair cochlea, if the damage is there and reason
cochlear implant can skip cochlea, but you have to have completely useless hearing to qualify for it
so, if you hear too good for CI, and too bad for aids to be of any help, join the club, grab the rum and let’s share stories 