What is your experience with early hearing loss in people with MS? If MSers are at a 2x to 6x higher risk of dementia, do they present with this symptom more often than the general population, according to your long clinical experience? Are the guidelines to treat promptly with hearing aids, or not?
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To be brutally honest, this is another neglected problem people with MS have that is ignored because it sits outside the comfort zone of most MS HCPs. When you ask pwMS, it is quite common for them to volunteer that they have problems hearing in noisy environments, i.e. following a conversation when there is a lot of other background noise. This is referred to as the cocktail party effect and is usually due to auditory processing. I suspect many of you will recognise this symptom.
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