Lack of stereo hearing is not fun

I have this too! No sense of what direction noise is coming from. I also hear noises and think "what is THAT?" and my family tells me. It's usually an airplane or dog barking. Sometimes things sound wacky.

 

I would think that this is a problem many of us have. When my bad is ear is really bad, it sounds like most noise is coming from my right side. It's obvious worse when outside. It can definitely throw you off and I imagine dangerous in some circumstances (e.g. a car approaching from a direction other than where you think it sounds like it is coming from).

 

I can also never tell where the direction of sound is coming from - My right ear is the one with the hearing loss.... Just this morning I was walking across to our service dept at our dealership and one of the sales guys was calling me and I had no idea where he was - he had to come up to me directly. Frustrating to say the least - but I am able to laugh now... This disease sure is no fun.

 

I totally get it. I've been deaf on my right side for 20 years and I mainly miss the ability to echo locate. At first it drove m crazy because I truly believed every sound i heard came from the left. Finally, i made myself stop and think so as not to get hit by a car but i still really miss it and hate turning around like a search light trying to figure out where sounds come from. I have also had a trouble making out non speech sounds like planes, motors, fans, thunder for some reason since i lost the one ear.

 

And people, including my husband! Answer my question 'where are you? ' with 'over here' multiple times. I swear i am going to sit down and let them find me.

 

My BF laughs at me because I will yell to him in the living room from the kitchen and he won't bother to answer me anymore because he knows I can't hear him anyway - after 9,000 times of him answering and me saying " what"?? he just stopped - lol

 

I can't hear in my left ear at all. I have no clue where sounds are coming from. I just got a new iPhone a couple of weeks ago. My teenage nephew, knowing I don't have stereo, decided to help me out by relieving me of my headphones! I can never tell if my neighbors upstairs are just being a heard of elephants, or if there is a thunderstorm. Both scenarios are equally likely where I live. I miss hearing my favorite songs the way they, "should" sound...

 

I get this distortion from time to time. It is very weird and I look around to try and find the sound which is usually in front of me. Most days I have the weirdest sensation for deep bases and drums. It is like the sound is deep in my head and vibrating uncontrollably. Some days I don't have this. It is getting better for me.

 

I also have loss of stereo hearing. It causes me no end of problems. I can only watch TV with sub titles - no sound, as speech is so garbled. Music is an absolute no-no. When my wife has the washing machine on it sounds like people talking loudly. I often have to be in a separate room from my wife so that we each can get peace. I also hear the loud beat of my heart pumping blood through my body all the time. Also I now I get very loud explosion noises in my head which send a shudder through my body. Anyone else get these?

 

I get this distortion from time to time. It is very weird and I look around to try and find the sound which is usually in front of me

I can relate. I can be sitting at the dinner table, hear something and say "what was that"? I usually get funny looks and know that there was no noise except for that inside my head.