[Islander7]

All I can say is good luck! I’ve tried three types of in-ear aids. The latest, from the VA, are digital. They are supposed to be adjusted to the particular frequencies of my loss.

I have a ‘notch’ loss, right in the middle where the human voice falls; 70%. Despite what the technician assured me of, these new ones are no better than the older ones. Any sort of background noise is intolerable; defeats the purpose of the aids.

I also have sensory processing problems. It takes about 1 - 1.5 seconds for the sound to translate into something intelligible. I know your frustration.

Hope you have a better experience and results than me. Several of my friends have had excellent results. I supposed it is related to the type of hearing damage.

Regards

[cva66snipe]

Thanks. It's hard to find people that have these type complications. The audiologist understood exactly what I was talking about and about sent me out of the chair a couple times during the test. He was watching my responses. I figure if worse comes to worse I can wear them around the house at least so I can understand what my wife is saying again. Then again if shopping say at Walmart I could leave them in and turn them off LOL. That would be an improvement.

Between the translation lag, misinterpreted signals, and poor filtering it's going to be interesting. But I got to do something though.