Bone Tired After Family Dinners? 5 Reasons Women Over 60 Are Obsessed With These Drops

Small thing but we went to Applebee’s last Friday and I didn’t have to look at my husband to repeat what the waitress said. First time in I don’t know how long. I’m on bottle 3.

My husband used to be my ears. He’s been gone two years. When he passed there was nobody to lean over and tell me what the pharmacist said, so I had to do something about it myself. I’m not ready for hearing aids and I don’t know if I ever will be. This was something I could do on my own in my own kitchen. The phone is easier. My doctor’s office is easier. That’s what I needed.

My sister lives in Tulsa and we talk every Sunday. Lately it had turned into me saying “what” and her saying “oh never mind, it’s not important.” That “never mind” hurt my feelings more than she knows. The last few calls we’ve just talked. Like we used to.

“Book club was getting hard. Eight women, everyone talking at once. I’m keeping up better now and I’m not sitting there exhausted afterward from straining. That tired feeling was the worst part.”

I am the WORST person to sell a supplement to. My daughter is a nurse and I’ve heard every lecture about “snake oil.” So let me be fair here. I don’t know what this does inside your ear and neither do you. What I can tell you is I started writing down every time I said “what?” or “huh?” in a day, because I’m a little OCD like that. First week I averaged about 14. Week 9 I averaged 6. Could be coincidence, could be I’m paying more attention. But my husband noticed too and he notices NOTHING.

Ok so honest review. Month 1 I thought it was a waste and almost stopped. I kept going only because I already had the 3 pack sitting there. Somewhere in week 6 or 7 I noticed I wasn’t turning my good ear toward people anymore. I didn’t even notice I’d been doing that until I stopped. Taste is like seaweed, not terrible, not great. 4 stars because it’s pricey but I’m reordering.

This might sound strange but my biggest problem wasn’t hearing exactly. It was being so tired after family. 14 people in my house, everybody talking, the TV going, and by 4 o’clock I’d be hiding in my bedroom pretending to look for something. My granddaughter said I always “disappear.” This year I stayed on the couch till they left. I was tired, sure, I’m 77. But not that bone tired. I started in August.

My husband used to be my ears. He’s been gone two years. When he passed there was nobody to lean over and tell me what the pharmacist said, so I had to do something about it myself. I’m not ready for hearing aids and I don’t know if I ever will be. This was something I could do on my own in my own kitchen. The phone is easier. My doctor’s office is easier. That’s what I needed.

Anybody with an aging parent knows this one. You ask “did you eat lunch?” and she tells you about the mail. People think she’s slipping. She’s not slipping, she’s guessing. I bought this because she won’t go back to the audiologist (“they just want to sell me something”) and she will take a dropper because to her it’s a vitamin. Month 2 I noticed the guessing was less. Not gone. She still says “you mumble” lol. 4 stars only because 3 bottles is a lot to try something.

Forty years on job sites with saws and compressors. My wife has been on me about the TV volume for years. Last month she told me it was sitting at 22 now instead of 30. I didn’t even notice I’d turned it down.

I been in the same pew at Greater Mt. Zion for 34 years. The fellowship hall after service is my favorite part of the week, all the sisters talking at once, and I had started slipping out after the benediction because I was tired of saying “baby what?” to everybody. These last few Sundays I stayed. Sister Hawkins said “well look who’s back.” That’s all I’m going to say. The taste is like seaweed, you get used to it.

“I like that it’s sea vegetables and algae and not a list of chemicals I can’t pronounce. I already ate nori and took spirulina years ago, so the ingredients felt familiar and safe to me.”

Audiologist said I’m “borderline” and could wait a year or two. I didn’t want to spend 5 grand on something I don’t fully need yet. This seemed like a reasonable thing to do in the meantime. I like that the page actually says it’s NOT a hearing aid replacement, that honesty made me trust it more. Three months in and work meetings are easier. If I need aids later I’ll get them.

I can’t swallow big pills anymore, so the dropper was the selling point for me. It takes ten seconds with my morning coffee and ten at night. I don’t have to think about it.

Didn’t want to try it, my wife ordered it. Ok fine. She says I’m “back in the room” now. Whatever that means I’ll take it lol

Engine rooms will do a number on you. Take it twice a day, no side effects, can hear my wife from the kitchen now. Mostly. She’d say I still have “selective hearing” but that’s a different problem lol

“I was skeptical. I’m a retired science teacher and I roll my eyes at most of this stuff. The page told me not to expect much in month one, and that honesty is why I stuck with it. Around week seven my husband said, ‘You didn’t ask me to repeat that.’ Small thing, but I noticed it too.”