Hearing loss often creeps in gradually, making it easy to overlook. Here, audiologist Ryan Reid highlights six subtle signs of hearing loss that you should never ignore:1. “The reason for that is that early age-related hearing loss usually affects the high frequencies first and sort of blurs out speech. “Many people who are suffering from hearing loss themselves may make a joke of it at the beginning, because they’re trying to play it off as they’ve just misheard and that it’s not necessarily hearing loss. “It’s never too early to have your hearing tested, as hearing loss can happen to anyone,” says Reid.

Source: Irish Examiner March 06, 2026 02:00 UTC