Posted on 04/08/2023 6:03:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin
My other ear has 80% nerve damage from a childhood illness. No need for a hearing aid for that ear.
Yeah, how quiet the world gets when I take the things out is quite pleasant.
That and the itching stops.
Now if they could do something about tinnitus, I’d be interested.
I’ve had tinnitus for years, and it’s loud if I focus on it.
But somehow mentally I’m able to ignore it most of the time.....
Mrs. Kickaha has said that my hearing loss saved our marriage.
“Hearing aids are a huge rip off...They want $7000.00+ for something to simply amplify sound? lol...”
All that you really need is an ear-pod type of device with a mic and an equalizer that you can adjust with an app in your phone.
$50-$100 should do the trick.
Some of those apps lets you do the same hearing test an audiologist does.
Same here.
That’s the way to do it. Just as you don’t buy glasses from your eye doc.
“All that you really need is an ear-pod type of device with a mic and an equalizer that”
Sure, if you’d be satisfied with 1950’s technology.
In this day and age the ability to digitally recognize wave forms and filter noise is very useful and for that you need a microprocessor of some sort.
I’ve spent the past 36 hours in an ER with my wife. We were sandwiched between several sets of old deaf folks. It was maddening.
The amount of time spent saying, “ Whaaaa” is crazy. So much time and information lost because people don’t get their hearing tested.
I have Plan F also (got in during the very last month of availability) and usually have to pay about $35 after standard office visit and lab tests. Not sure why, haven’t looked into it. Co-pay, deductible?
ER with my wife.
🙏prayers up for a good outcome.
My first hearing aids were Resounds. Good devices.
Went to Oticon next. Even better. About the same price.
Thanks. She is going to need them. This is her third SCAD heart attack. They are going to cath’ her in the morning. We just got a clean bill for her cancer treatment—four years out. We thought we were out of the woods.
I’ve had a few pairs from real audiologists, but I ended up throwing them out because they just didn’t help.
I got a pair from Miracle Ear and they are great.
I use the Tinnitus program for everyday use. When I’m in a crowd or a church like setting I turn on directionality so it doesn’t pick up people beside me or behind me. That focuses the hearing aids on the person in front of me. I also adjust the treble and bass to better pick out the person I am trying to hear.
And I love the Bluetooth capabilities.
Nothing. I always ask a lab, doctor or whatever if they take Medicare assignment as well as Anthem secondary insurance assignment and I’ve not had a doctor or hospital say no yet. I also ask them to code whatever it is as medically necessary.
Out of curiosity, what did your most recent set cost and how long ago did you get them?
Earpods are hardly 50’s technology. Most of those type of devices have noise cancelation, Bluetooth to connect them to an app that can check your hearing at various frequencies and use an equalizer to correct them.
I have one and it works better than one I tried from Costco that cost $2k.
THAT is what I miss!!!!!!!!!
Even if I have 2 hearing aids in, if someone yells my name, for example, I have not a clue where the sound is coming from!!
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