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Difficulty hearing speech
Difficulty hearing some speech is a symptom in which a person has trouble hearing and understanding speech, maybe due to partial deafness, fluid in the middle ear, excessive earwax, etc
Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this
16 year experience in family medicine
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A 45-year old asked:
I have difficulty understanding speech in the background, even with my hearing aid, is there a way to make it better?
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A 34-year old asked:
My hearing test is normal but I have trouble understanding speech. Why?
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A 45-year old asked:
Being adhd, hearing impairmed and speech impaired make it impossible to get a job?
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A 39-year old asked:
I wear hearing aids and have a speech disorder, will guys still be interested in me?
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A 30-year old asked:
My hearing is usually normal but I still have trouble understanding speech in restaurant. Why?
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A 42-year old asked:
Can someone who has been hearing impaired since infancy improve speech and discrimination later in life?
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A 42-year old male asked:
I listened to loud music and played in a loud band as a kid. Now I have difficulty hearing conversations in moderatly noisy rooms. Can i heal this?
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A 37-year old female asked:
Migraines severe on right side. Lose vision, hearing, & some speech problems. Told side more sensitive. Is this possible or could it be more severe?
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A 49-year old asked:
Can i be a speech pathologist if I have a hearing impairment?
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A 39-year old female asked:
Can 7th nerve palsy affect speech & cause high frequency hearing loss? Have had problems entire life. No droop, just no ability to do some things
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A 34-year old female asked:
Could my 3 year old be autistic?he is not yet pottu trained,has speech and language delay passed his hearing test.he throws very violent tempers.
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A 34-year old female asked:
Could my 3 year old be autistic?he is not yet pottu trained,has speech and language delay pasaed his hearing test.he throws very violent tempers.he do
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A 22-year old female asked:
In the last 3 days I've had 2 'attacks' which involve dizziness,severe nausea,extreme weakness,slurred speech,vision&hearing effected.What could it be?
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A 26-year old female asked:
Is audiology consider medical specialty? Is it the same as hearing and speech doctor? Is it branch of ENT or separted one?
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A 29-year old female asked:
Severe headache on left side lasts 2 days. Difficulty hearing mostly on left side. Auditory brain test showed imbalance on left side of brain. Wat ist?
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A 23-year old female asked:
How can I self-learn how to articulate properly? Suffers from severe sensorineural hearing loss, and cannot afford hearing aids and speech therapy.
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A 27-year old asked:
I have started to have difficulty hearing, it seems to blocked & my hearing is v sensitive.What could this be dwn to?Have tried ear wax but didn't work
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A 31-year old asked:
Any drug available for hearing impairment, speech delay and hyperactivity in a child of 5+?
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A member asked:
I have extreme ear pain, muffled hearing and difficulty balancing, along with dry black discharge. Is this an average infection or something more?
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A 35-year old female asked:
How likely can fluid in his ears cause speech/language delays? My son is almost 3 he failed hearing test in the ped's office (the one they use on newborns) due to fluid in his ears. Is this most likely the cause of his delays? Or can the fluid go away o
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A 36-year old female asked:
I have recent hearing difficulty on both ears. The feeling it's more like I have water in my ears but I didn't swim. I also noticed little blood wax?
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A 43-year old female asked about a 17-year old female:
If someone's ears (softer sounds, muffled sounds, difficulty hearing certain notes, ringing, constant pain, fullness, headaches, dizziness, slight itch) and slight fever has been getting worse hourly for multiple days, should they use expensive 911?
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A 30-year old male asked:
Hi My right hear has difficulty hearing in the mornings, and it gets better later in the day...but about 4 days into this, I had pain behind the ear, especially when pressed. This morning both ears couldnt hear properly , but left ear is now better?
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A 34-year old female asked:
Vertigo, full feeling in right ear, pain and sensation of fluid draining from same ear but is none. Tinnitus and hearing difficulty as well. Help?
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A 27-year old female asked:
Migraines,vision,balance,speech,hearing problems,recently palpitations,chest pain, high BP and hr.Could cyst pushing on rt aspect of medulla be cause?
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A 17-year old female asked:
I have a sore ear that feels blocked & have difficulty hearing out it sometimes. I wear noise cancelling earplugs & there is less earwax on the sore ear 1 than the other and it is lighter and harder. Its getting worse, I want to know how to fix it?
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A 23-year old male asked:
When i wake up, my throat hurts, there is a post nasal draining and orofarenks is red. My speech is bad. Cant breath from nose.Hearing problems.
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A 28-year old female asked:
I've had fluid in my ears since Saturday and am having difficulty hearing. I have also had sinus drainage and yellow phlegm, but no fever or pain. This morning I also had blood in my mucus. I am wondering if this is an ear infection or not?
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A 30-year old female asked:
Blocked ears for over a year, difficulty hearing yet hearing test is normal, tinnitus, ear pain, ct scan normal, no fluid present, air going up Eustachian tubes. Originally disagnosed with ETD, doesnt seem to be the problem now. Please help?
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A 22-year old female asked about a 52-year old female:
How to recognize if their is a problem in hearing or no? thanks
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