{"id":829909,"date":"2026-08-29T15:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/829909\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T15:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:48:08","slug":"6-sneaky-signs-of-hearing-loss-and-what-you-can-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/829909\/","title":{"rendered":"6 sneaky signs of hearing loss and what you can do about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"G6DECEXASNEKNMIACQE36LZ4I4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">About three years ago, Ryan Arnold, 46, started noticing conversations were becoming harder to follow in restaurants and crowded rooms with background noise.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"FCUZH77TQJCKDL4F5P4DZIPBFI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cI found myself asking people to repeat themselves more often, especially if they weren\u2019t facing me,\u201d said Arnold, founder and president of DeSoto &amp; State Communications and a former on-air personality at Chicago\u2019s WXRT-FM (93.1). In the last year, the decline grew more noticeable; the persistent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/08\/14\/many-treatments-promise-relief-tinnitus-heres-what-actually-helps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/08\/14\/many-treatments-promise-relief-tinnitus-heres-what-actually-helps\/\">ringing in his ears, known as tinnitus<\/a>, became harder to ignore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About three years ago, Ryan Arnold, 46, started noticing conversations were becoming harder to follow in restaurants and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-829909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}