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Hello, I lost complete earring in my left ear following a trip to Southeast Asia 7 years ago. Doctors could not tell me what caused the loss, but it would not come back. I have since retired in Thailand. It is very hard for me to understand people from other countries due to their strong accents. I wear a set of 5 year old Phonak croc. Do hearing aids make it more difficult to get pass accents? What is the latest/best hearing aids for SSHL?
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@dwi. Can you understand Thai and other tonal languages with your SSHL and hearing aid? I think you are doing REALLY well if you can. As a point of curiosity, what kinds of accents are you having trouble understanding, i.e. Germans speaking English? I have a SSHL and learned from people in this group there are hearing aids that will help me. I'm really looking forward to getting one when it's safe to venture out. I love traveling abroad and managed to do so with my hearing limitations. I know my experiences would have been so much richer if I had been able to hear better and pick up local languages, which I couldn't do. Where in Thailand do you live? Nancy
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@dwi Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. You had sudden hearing loss primarily in one ear? Are you using two hearing aids, or do you have a bicross hearing aid that allows you to hear from both directions? Hearing aids do keep improving, but the best hearing aid is only as good as the person who tests you and does the fitting appropriately. I have sensorineural hearing loss, but it was progressive, not sudden. Accents are very difficult for me to understand. That is due to the hearing loss not the hearing aids though. Let us know more about your experiences.