Yeah, the everything is louder with aids. So much so that it can be painful in a restaurant when I wear them to hear the wife and waiter.
They keep saying to wear them more often to learn to hear again, but that darn things make my ears itch after a while.
The hearing aid places are like used car salesmen. Everyone has the latest and greatest. Had one aid go dead, the dealer says it cannot be fixed, have to spend several k for new ones. Find a place online that fixes them for a couple hundred bucks.
Balance, ruined my right inner ear scuba diving so my balance is really hosed. Hard to figure how hearing has anything to do with that unless inner ear damage which an aid will not fix.
If I could really pick out voices from the crashing noise, a new pair might be interesting. Would need to try the VA as my self paid ins does not cover. Doubt the VA has the good stuff.
If I could really pick out voices from the crashing noise, a new pair might be interesting.
With each new set, they give me a worksheet of tests for the new aids.
First up, was go out to eat in a noisy restaurant. I still remember it! The busboy loading dishes in a small tub on a stand, everyone talking...
I was even hearing conversations behind me!
The noise canceling function worked well, the speech recognition zoomed in on my wife and I could hear her!
Taking my notes back to the audiologist and she changed the voice zoom to straight ahead and 45 degrees on the sides.
I think she left some rear pickup for safety reasons.
All that and they are waterproof!
The rain will kill the battery but not the aid.
I go to Easterseals, they say any issues to bring them back. No hype, no push.
After the exam, she presented a list of possible devices that would work with my impairment with prices.
I told her I did not care about ‘looks’, I wanted function and waterproof(previous ones had been rained out a few times). Because I paid for good insurance I went Cadillac.
Totally happy with them, they are amazing.
Six or seven years and still work fine, they reprogram them as my hearing changes.