Posted on 10/18/2022 7:45:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
Tinnitus RING List Ping!....................
Lots of people have a bad time with the prescription version, too.
Mine came from the VA, and they are GREAT!....................
Hearing Aids Just Amplifiers?
mostly
“Tinnitus RING List Ping!”
I got mine from Vioxx. How’d you get yours?
USMC..................
Formerly known as “P.S.A.P.s”, Personal Sound Amplification Products, can often harm your hearing more than help. While genuine hearing aids are indeed expensive, you’re getting a product tailored to your specific loss, not just a boom-box in your ear.
This is a mess. Apparently Medicare does not cover hearing aids and you have to get tested and buy very expensive aids which are now attached to your cell phone so you can make adjustments, such as unidirectional (one-on-one) or multidirectional (in a crowd).
I think they should be covered by Medicare. Hearing is extremely important for neurological health— people who lose hearing start declining mentally.
For people with serious hearing loss, going through a professional who can test your hearing precisely and explain the ins and outs of using hearing aids is important. There are different kinds of hearing loss and this needs to be taken into account.
For example, I have had for over 20 years difficulty in hearing if there is a lot of noise around or if there is a fan running. The sounds are “blurred” to me.
That is different from someone I know who has trouble with a certain frequency range.
Each requires special aids.
So we kind of need both but there should be a way of covering hearing loss care under Medicare.
My mother-in-law bought two pairs of hearing aids that cost over $6,000 each pair, and that was over five years ago. Insurance nor medicare cover hearing aids. Over the counter should help bring these costs down.
VA didn’t use to until fairly recently.................
My guess it’s going to be a state-by-state thing like glasses.
Florida allows ‘reading glasses’ to be sold anywhere.
Some other states do not............
Not all states are like that.
Some will not allow ‘reading glasses’ to be sold OTC............
Being I wiped out several pairs after tipping a few out on the boats, jumping in the water forgetting i have them in, I now buy buy the $29.00 Walgreens specials!! This all I need!!
Medicare Advantage plans cover hearing aids, and they are not too expensive, usually between $300 and $1,400 each. There’s a free hearing test with an audiologist.
You have to get Medicare Advantage through a broker. The only downside in my opinion is it’s an HMO and you have to use the network’s doctors and specialists.
I buy my reading glasses in bulk at the dollar store. I wasn’t aware you weren’t allowed to purchase them in certain states. Interesting.
At age 67 my problem is more my inability to filter through the noise floor. Most quality sound is perfect in my head. And with 9 grandchildren in the house, well there is the noise floor.
Doesn’t help when the wife stopped looking in my direction when talking. Hearing her now resorts to bounced sound off the far wall.
Strange the camouflage of the person but the shiny lenses of the binoculars and the dish.
“Florida allows ‘reading glasses’ to be sold anywhere.”
Too bad glasses magnifying the ‘other way’ aren’t allowed.
When aging and cataract caused diopter shifts, I couldn’t get glasses OTC that shifted past a 0 into negative range.
Also learned recently that cataracts are brought on from Allipurinol meds. Did me in.
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