Hello. Welcome to my blog. I'm Carly. This is my story about my experience of sudden sensorineural hearing loss and how it affects my life.

Carly Sygrove is a hearing health writer who has single-sided deafness. She writes about living with hearing loss at My Hearing Loss Story and manages an online support group for people with hearing loss. She is also the founder of the Sudden Hearing Loss Support website, a source of information and support for people affected by sudden hearing loss. Here are the key findings from the Apple Hearing Study, which collected hearing data from thousands of participants across the US. Continue Readin

In creating this website I was supported by audiologists, hearing health charities and organisations and leading hearing technology manufacturers.

I‘m seven weeks post-activation of my cochlear implant (CI). Eight years ago, I lost hearing in my left ear due to sudden hearing loss, while my right ear still has normal hearing. Living in Spain, I’m fortunate to have access to a CI for single-sided deafness-an option not available everywhere. As a hearing loss coach, I’ve always been passionate about supporting others, and now I’m experiencing firsthand what it’s like to live with a CI.     1. Nothing to lose: With no functional hearing in my...

In this Summer 2022 edition of BSHAA People magazine (pages 29-31), read about how blogging helped me to work through difficult emotions, how I made connections with others living similar experiences, and my decision to become a Transformational Coach to support people with hearing loss on their personal and emotional journeys to rehabilitation and beyond: https://www.flipsnack.com/bshaa/bshaa_people_summer_2022_web/full-view.html (p29-31)

"There is still relatively little known about sudden hearing loss, which makes it difficult to know where to find information and support. Although various articles can be found online, I couldn’t find anything which encompassed the whole sudden hearing loss experience, all in one place." Read the story behind the creation of the Sudden Hearing Loss Support website.

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With people currently being required to wear face masks and face coverings in public places to help reduce COVID-19 transmissions, this poses communication challenges for people like me, members of the hearing loss community. When faces are covered, it adds an extra barrier for achieving successful communication; it is challenging for people who rely on lipreading to communicate with people using face masks, due to both muffled speech and lack of visual cues.

Have you ever asked your partner to take out the trash while they’re watching TV? Chances are, you'll need to ask them more than once before they actually do it. Or, when your child is playing video games, do they tune out your questions, yet the word “chocolate” immediately grabs their attention? Selective hearing is the ability to focus on a single sound or voice in a noisy environment. It is also known as “selective auditory attention” or the “cocktail party effect.” Selective hearing is oft...

Three years ago, at the age of 34, I lost functional hearing in my left ear through sudden sensorineural hearing loss. It happened fast—I was listening to a presentation at the school here in Spain where I was teaching, and out of nowhere came a loud screeching sound that filled my head with pressure. Just like that, my hearing in one ear was gone. Initially, my treatment was aimed at seeing if my hearing could be restored. But after about six months of many different therapies, it became clear