• You may strain your eyes to lip read in the presence of background noise.
  • You may avoid social situations in noisy environments e.g. coffee shops and restaurants, as it is tiresome to follow the conversation and you may disengage altogether.
  • You may find it hard to follow a conversation with younger children as they have softer/higher voices and you might find yourself avoiding dialogue with them and give up trying to understand them altogether.
  • You may get very tired towards the end of the day. This will be due to you working a lot harder to follow conversations than someone with normal hearing.