• Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
Skip to content

My Hearing Loss Story

My experience of sudden sensorineural hearing loss and how it affects my life.

  • Blog Posts
  • About Me
    • About Me and My Blog
    • Freelance Writing
    • Speaking and Podcasts
  • Coaching
  • Published Articles
    • HearingTracker
    • The Limping Chicken
    • Hearing Link
    • Inclusive Communication Services
    • Healthy Hearing: CROS Hearing Aid Review
    • Hearing Aid Know: My Experience of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing loss
    • Hearing Aid Know: Trying out a CROS Hearing Aid for My Sudden Hearing Loss
    • Hearing Aid Know: My Ever-Present Tinnitus
  • My Book
  • My Projects
    • BBC Documentary
    • Other People’s Stories
    • Campaigns and Research
    • Book Reviews
  • Support
    • Support Group
    • Sudden Hearing Loss Support Website
  • Contact

Author: myhearinglossstory

Hi, My name is Carly and I'm currently living in Spain. I am originally from a small seaside town in Yorkshire called Bridlington and have also lived in China and Thailand. For 14 years, I worked as a teacher, specialising in Early Years Education. I am currently working as a transformational coach for people with hearing loss, and a hearing health writer. In August 2016, I experienced sudden sensorineural hearing loss in my left ear. I started this blog as a way to inform my friends and family about my progress, for anyone else who is going through a similar experience as me, or for anybody who is interested in learning about this type of hearing loss, and the way it can affect everyday life. I am also the founder of the Sudden Hearing Loss Support website, which provides information and support to anyone affected by sudden hearing loss. I love walking in the countryside, getting lost in Madrid, going out for breakfast, taking photos, listening to music, storytelling podcasts, baking, running, drinking wine, and eating spicy food.
Profile of Carly, wearing her ebony Rondo 3 processor and white jumper.
December 23, 2024 Cochlear Implant / hearing loss / Single-Sided Deafness

My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 9 – Activation Day

Shakin’ Stevens’ “Merry Christmas Everyone” played on the car stereo as we made the familiar journey to Valencia. The motorway

Continue reading

2 x the same photo of Carly, sided by side. On the left, she has a white behind-the-ear style audio processor drawn on top of the image around her ear. On the right photo, she has a circular rondo-style audio processor drawn on top of the image.
December 10, 2024 Cochlear Implant / hearing loss / Single-Sided Deafness

My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 8 – Choosing an Audio Processor

Deciding which audio processor to choose has been a tricky part of my cochlear implant journey. In a nutshell, a

Continue reading

Photo of carly wearing a pink headband and a blue and white stripy top
November 28, 2024 Cochlear Implant / hearing loss / Single-Sided Deafness

My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 7 – Surgery Recovery

I had prepared for the worst regarding my cochlear implant surgery recovery. I am the kind of person who seems

Continue reading

November 27, 2024 Cochlear Implant / hearing loss / Single-Sided Deafness

My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 6 – Surgery Day!

12th November, 2024  I woke up from my cochlear implant surgery to the familiar sight of the anaesthetist, his wild

Continue reading

Headshot of Carly - woman in her early 40s with brown hair in a bob style, wearing a yellow top. Over the photo is a drawn-on white cochlear implant over her left ear.
October 25, 2024 Cochlear Implant / Single-Sided Deafness

My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 5 – It’s a Date!

It’s finally happening! I have a date for my cochlear implant (CI) surgery. After 8 years and 2 months since

Continue reading

Basic outline of a head and torso in red. Being emitted from the head are 3 squiggly lines.
July 12, 2024 migraine / vestibular migraine

Migraine, Migraine, Go Away

Image by KERBSTONE from Pixabay I’m fed up. Frustrated. Another flare. Six days in. Months of flares. Chronic vestibular migraine,

Continue reading

Picture of the back of a young woman sitting at the top of a mountain looking at a view of a valley surrounded by mountains.
April 18, 2024 hearing loss / socializing

Lost in the Crowd 

I recently moved to a new house. It was a Friday and a friend of my partner whom I had

Continue reading

View of the aeroplane wing and clouds at sunset out of an aeroplane window. Image by Nikhil Kurian from Pixabay
March 13, 2024 hearing loss

In My Cocoon: Flying With Hearing Loss

Image by Nikhil Kurian from Pixabay “You would’ve thought they’d have learned the first time, wouldn’t you?!” commented the stranger

Continue reading

Graphic of a doctor in a white coat holding a black clipboard standing next to an enlarged head with the brain exposed. Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay
January 23, 2024 hearing loss / vestibular disorder / vestibular migraine

Could Botox Help My Vestibular Migraines?—Part 3: The Verdict

Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay I have now been receiving Botox as a preventative treatment for my vestibular migraines for around 9

Continue reading

Illustration of two arrow signs, one on top of the other, pointing opposite ways. The top sign is pink and says "One way." The bottom sign is green and reads "Another way." Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
December 1, 2023 Cochlear Implant / Single-Sided Deafness

My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 4 – Why I’m Getting a Cochlear Implant for Single-Sided Deafness

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay As I write this blog, it is November 30th, 2023, and I have been living with single-sided

Continue reading

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 2 3 4 … 14 Next Posts»

Welcome to my blog!

Unknown's avatar

I’m Carly Sygrove, and this is the story of my experience of sudden sensorineural hearing loss and how it has affected my life.

Top Posts & Pages

  • My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 9 – Activation Day
  • My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 8 – Choosing an Audio Processor
  • My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 3 - Reasons Not to Get a Cochlear Implant
  • My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 18 – One Year Post-Implantation
  • Living with Single-Sided Deafness
  • My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 7 – Surgery Recovery
  • One Year On... My Thoughts on My Sudden Hearing Loss
  • Could Botox Help My Vestibular Migraines?—Part 3: The Verdict
  • My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 17 – The Day I Met Another Rondo
  • A Note on Diuretics (and more medical terminology)

Categories

  • Audiology (1)
  • Balance Awareness Week (1)
  • BBC Documentary (5)
  • Blog Awards (4)
  • Book Reviews (1)
  • Campaigns and Research (7)
  • Coaching (2)
  • Cochlear Implant (18)
  • communication (2)
  • dizziness (1)
  • Fundraising (5)
  • Hearing Link (5)
  • hearing loss (46)
  • hearing loss coaching (1)
  • Hearing Loss Projects (13)
  • interview (1)
  • Menieres disease (14)
  • migraine (1)
  • Other People's Stories (5)
  • podcast (1)
  • Published Articles (14)
  • septoplasty (4)
  • single sided deafness (3)
  • Single-Sided Deafness (54)
  • socializing (1)
  • Sudden Hearing Loss book (1)
  • sudden sensorineural hearing loss (53)
  • The Limping Chicken (7)
  • tinnitus (9)
  • vertigo (1)
  • vestibular disorder (15)
  • Vestibular Function Tests (2)
  • vestibular migraine (10)
  • vestibular rehabilitation (3)
  • wellbeing (2)

Listen to My Story

Hearing Me Documentary
Carenity logo: “care” written in dark blue and “nity” in light blue with the “y” in the shape of a person with outstretched arms.
Read my story on Carenity - The 1st social network for people living with chronic conditions.

Read my articles on The Limping Chicken – The world’s most popular deaf blog!

Review of CROS hearing aid

Read my blog and other hearing loss stories on the Hearing Link website!

My Story on AI Media Blog

Donations

a teapot pouring tea into a cup

Donations

Please help to fuel my writing by buying me a cup of tea 🙂

$5.00

Search

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 766 other subscribers

Translate This Page

Archives

Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • My Hearing Loss Story
    • Join 329 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • My Hearing Loss Story
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...
 

You must be logged in to post a comment.