I feel for you. I went thru the same situation for years. I sympathize w your frustrations. My solution was to just talk louder, and have faith in knowing he was dealing w the inner turmoil of it all, and at some point would do something. That point came when we went in last yr for our physicals, and our PCP recommended he try Costco... and he did! He's been intermittently agitated w getting used to them, but he's soldiering thru. He knows it's a foreign object in his ears to get used to, and it's never going to be perfect, but he CAN hear better. Praying for you; it's not fun! Hang in there.