In reply to lost1977:
I too started to notice high frequency loss of hearing a few years ago. Originally, as a birdwatcher I found hearing some bird song difficult or not at all if it was high pitched and far awaY. Now my hearing loss has extended to noisy pub conversations and quietly spoken females.
I went and got NHS hearing aids as others have. Brilliant!! I normally only use them for birding and those that know me just make an allowance for my less than perfect hearing.
It's certainly no big deal in my life and if I'm honest it does allow me not to hear things I'd rather =ignore like, 'can you do this or that' etc., and blame my non compliance on my hearing.
Something which does take getting used to is learning to put up with extremely crunchy gravel, paper, plastic and similar noises which no doubt is because my hearing loss meant these sounds became 'quiet and are now normal volume again.