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Hearing aids in but still not understanding words
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This sounds so frustrating...have been told I have 70%loss in my rt ear and 30% loss in lft ear but I still didnt get hearing aids as the price was so high! It seems to me that a lot of not understanding is because of word distortion. Is there anyway to test that the problem could be due to distortion and not so much hearing loss......and get an aid that fixes distortion? That is my big question???yelling seems to increase the distortion. I also find that if I eliminate background noise totally I can hear normally with no great problem. My late husband got hearing aids and they were pretty useless and we wasted alot of money (even with gov'm't help). I wish you good luck and look forward to hearing how you solved your problem. Bon courage.
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I’m not an expert but I think the hearing loss causes the distortion of words. Hearing aids are trial and error. You should get a trial period with your aids to see if they work for you. I know once I had tried phonax because the audiologist recommended them for my type of loss but I couldn’t hear very well. I returned them and went back to oticons which I had prior to the phonax and they worked better for me. So definitely make sure you get a trial period when you go for them. That way you are not paying for aids that don’t work for you.