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Hello I am.new to this group. My only real health issue at nearly 80 is hearing loss so could be worse but as others find it is isolating mainly because the technology does not get you back to 20/20 to use a sight analogy. For the first five years of having hearing aids when the audiologist said my need was marginal I thought wearing them was more trouble than it was worth so wore them little. Fast forward to a year ago when word recognition in one ear had fallen by 40% I really need them to function even with a one on one conversation. These Oticon aids are maybe getting on for 7 years old now but the audiologist 6 months ago said they were still fine. Since then I went to an HLLA meeting when someone talked about the advisability of doing a Real Ear Measurement (REM) when fitting aids. I gather my audiologist now does this so perhaps that will improve matters but realistically I think with increasing age my hearing will get worse but I am very active and healthy so appreciate that.and maybe there will be some way of regenerating the auditory nerve which seems to be the culprit in the future! I am.glad I found this group through the HLLA.
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@mahnrut If you think you may get new hearing aids, wait just a tiny bit longer. I have Oticon Opn1 hearing aids that were a fairly new model when I got them, a bit over two years ago. They were supposed to be a big improvement on clarity for people who had problems with that, and I am one of them. They were better than my previous hearing aids for that function.
They are coming out with a new one though, Opn S, which is supposed to be a 15% improvement on clarity. Since these are not yet even two and half years old, and the cost of hearing aids is so high, I won't be getting new ones yet. I sure wish I could though. If you can wait more than just a tiny bit, I would wait even longer until the audiologists get some experience with this new model. I was one of the first people who my audiologist prescribed the Opn1 for and it was a learning curve for both of us.
I am part of a group on Facebook that is for people with Oticon hearing aids. It's a private group but you can request to be in it, and I don't think they turn anyone down unless they feel it is someone trying to sell something. It is run by people who wear these hearing aids, not professionals, but I guess Oticon is allowed to post there which is how I discovered that they were coming out with a new HA.
JK