Hearing Aids

[texasjohn]

Guys, every manufacturer has numerous models with differing features and technologies and price points. This is one area where you truly need to have a complete diagnosis from a true ENT doctor, understand exactly what kind of loss you have and the recommended technology to address the problem. Then, you can do your additional research via the web regarding the features, their cost and consider your individual situation. It is AT LEAST as complex as deciding what tractor and implements you need... assuming you are a newbie from town who has no tractor/farming experience and has just purchased rural property.

Just these few posts demonstrate the variability in hearing problems and solutions and experiences.

Size, service, reliability, power requirements, maintenance requirements, initial cost, replacement insurance, warranty, features, add-ons.... all are significant factors, and your choices greatly influence final satisfaction with the product.

 

[milkman]

Picked 'em up today, took a little over half an hour to go through everything and answer all my questions. After the process, I'm glad I didn't order them from an online place, I have a 30 day trial period, I can take them back, no questions asked, full refund. They are adjusted or reset as long as I own them free. After I have them on for a few minutes, I don't even notice that they're there and I've learned that Lexus turn signals beep just like other cars and the little tab that holds the cup in the holder clicks when I pull the cup out, another thing, the silent light switches in the house...aren't... the Westminister chimes make sounds that they didn't make yesterday. I'm learning all kinds of new stuff and lovin' it.

 

[Inspector507]

I know I have never regretted hearing......."PaPaw I love you"

 

[Bird]

Yep, I wish they weren't so expensive, but I gotta have'em.

 

[milkman]

My previous post was just some of the immediate things that I noticed, the TV volume has come down a few knotches and I was able to understand what the wife was saying to me from the kitchen this evening, while I was watching the news in the other room, that was really a pleasant change, although she sure was rattling the pots and pans a lot louder than normal.

 

[Inspector507]

My previous post was just some of the immediate things that I noticed, the TV volume has come down a few knotches and I was able to understand what the wife was saying to me from the kitchen this evening, while I was watching the news in the other room, that was really a pleasant change, although she sure was rattling the pots and pans a lot louder than normal.

Yes some of the background noises you "took for granted" or just didn't hear are now obvious. I know she can't say I have selective hearing anymore, unless I take it out.........LOL

 

[texasjohn]

Glad they are working well for you....

 

[txdon]

Milkman, can you hear crickets?

 

[milkman]

Milkman, can you hear crickets?

I can hear crickets, I'm sure now I can hear them farther away. For years I've had a problem, especially when it gets later in the day and I get tired, hearing katydids in my ears, I suppose it's a form of tinnitis. Back in the '80's a Dr. told me that Ginkgo Biloba would help with that and I've been taking 240mg a day ever since and whether it's imigination or not, it's almost completly gone. After I was taking it for about two months, one day I noticed the sound was gone.

 

[milkman]

Milkman, can you hear crickets?

I've been thinking about your question since I answered before, I had went to Google and listened to cricket sounds and heard several soft cricket sounds. I don't remember hearing crickets in the house though and this morning I was setting here at the computer and I heard a cricket, several times, thought it might have been on the tv, so I turned it off, still heard the cricket, real soft. Finally I turned off both hearing aids, no more cricket. I got a phone call and the remembered that I had turned them off so when I got off the phone I turned them back on and there is the cricket again, I really can hear crickets, or not, just flip the switch.

 

[Podunkadunk]

Yep, I wish they weren't so expensive, but I gotta have'em.

Bird, were you ever in the military and received an honorable discharge? If so, it would behoove you (and others reading this, if the above is applicable) to go see the Veteran's Services Officer in your county.

If you have a service connection for hearing loss, or can provide supporting information in regards to your loss now, being caused or aggravated by your military service, you can get the VA to pay for them. From what I hear (no pun intended), the VA provides some really nice aids. I was told they are 5-8k a pair. Don't hold me to that figure, it's just what I was told.

My best friend/lifelong pal/fishing/hunting buddy is a VSO. We applied for service connection on my behalf and got it. I have 40% loss in my left ear with a moderate dose of the butterfly ear (tinnitus). Mine sounds like a butterfly flapping it's wings beside my ear. The ringing has really cut down since I throttled back on taking anything with aspirin.

Anyhow, my .02 worth.

Good luck,

Podunk

 

[Bird]

Nope, Podunk, I was never in the military. Long story, but I was once rejected because of the effect polio had on my left foot and leg. And I was rejected by the police department intially, also. I had to convince a military doctor that I was capable of being a soldier, but then they weren't taking married men. And I had quite a round with the city doctors before the police department took me. They were afraid I'd want a disability pension before I put in 20 years. Well, I retired on a "long service" pension 2 months and 5 days short of 25 years. Now if I'd gotten a disability pension from the police department, it sure would have saved me a lot of income tax.