Myths About Hearing Loss and Hearing Solutions

According to the Better Hearing Institute, there are a number of common myths about hearing loss and hearing solutions.

  • Surgery can help everybody.
  • You can have one "good ear."
  • My doctor would have told me if I had a problem.
  • My hearing loss is normal for my age.
  • Hearing loss cannot be helped.
  • Hiding my hearing loss is better than wearing those hearing aids.
  • Hearing aids are only for those with serious hearing loss.
  • Hearing aids make everything sound "too loud."

Follow the link below for a discussion of these and other incorrect notions.