Not talking about major problems — just small everyday things.
For me it's when someone starts talking from another room and somehow expects me to understand everything.
I've been using CHOSGO hearing aids and it made me start paying attention to all these little moments.
What's yours?
Not talking about major problems — just small everyday things.
For me it's when someone starts talking from another room and somehow expects me to understand everything.
I've been using CHOSGO hearing aids and it made me start paying attention to all these little moments.
What's yours?
Mine: "What?" isn't the most frustrating thing people say to me. It's when people say "never mind." Curious what everyone else's is.
Mine: "What?" isn't the most frustrating thing people say to me. It's when people say "never mind." Curious what everyone else's is.
I’m curious about first experiences with hearing support devices (hearing aids, amplifiers, etc.).
For many people, the expectation is usually “louder sound,” but the real experience seems more nuanced — like adjusting to background noise, processing speech differently, or even rediscovering certain everyday sounds.
In some of the conversations I’ve had through CHOSGO HEARING user testing, a few people mentioned that the biggest surprise wasn’t volume, but how “different” normal environments suddenly felt again.
I’d love to hear from people here: what surprised you the most during your first days of use?
I was thinking about this recently — when I miss parts of conversations, I sometimes feel like I'm constantly catching up instead of just being in the moment. Does anyone else experience that?
I realized hearing loss made me forget some sounds even existed. Not because I missed them, but because my brain kind of stopped expecting them. What's one sound you forgot about and then suddenly noticed again?
For people who started using hearing aids, what was the most unexpected sound you noticed again? Was it something small like footsteps, birds, keys jingling, AC noise, chewing, etc.? Curious because sometimes I hear people say they didn't realize how much they were missing until random everyday sounds came back.
Not talking about official diagnosis or hearing tests — just everyday life moments. The first time you realized you missed something and had to guess your way through it.