For years my family said the television was too loud and I told them they were mumbling. I was fitted with hearing aids at 54, and the first thing I noticed was not the sound.
2 Oct 20267 min read
Expert Panel
Gopal Raman
Fitted with hearing aids at 54 after years of asking people to repeat themselves
Health contributor, hearing and the sensesIpoh
For years my family told me the television was too loud and I told them they were mumbling. I was fitted with hearing aids at 54, and the first thing I noticed was not the sound — it was how much of the conversation I had been sitting out of. I write about the signs I missed, what a hearing test actually involves, and the honest range of what hearing aids cost in Malaysia, because the price is the reason most people I know still put it off. I am a retired teacher, not an audiologist.
Writes about
- Hearing loss
- Hearing aids and cost
- Isolation and the senses