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How does hearing loss change you?
Hearing Loss | Last Active: Jun 22 9:15am | Replies (172)Comment receiving replies
Well, you can get some on a CD if you want, but my music is on my iPhone as an app. My hearing aids are Resound hearing aids and their program is on my iPhone 7+. The actual program is found on my cell phone - I have had it for 4 years now and so everything I do with my hearing aids is on the phone. I turn on my hearing aids with the phone. I turn on the four programs with my phone. I switch to either one of the programs depending on where I am like if I am in a restaurant and it's noisy - I put the program for the noise. If I am in a looped church or auditorium, I put the t-coil on and it switches my hearing aids to that program. If I want to tune out my tinnitus - it will switch to the tinnitus program on my iPhone and if I just want the regular program, it changes to the plan program which is the default program. https://www.resound.com/en-us/hearing-aids
I also have a Tinnitus App by Resound that is specific for those who have tinnitus and want a variety of different sounds to pick from. This is a free app that I use intermittently when I want something on other than the radio or TV. I usually use it when I walk and think, or when I am writing.
There are more hearing aids/CIs programs that can be found on cell phones now so that you can stream your conversations and hearing right from the phone. I hear my telephone calls right into my ears when I answer my phone calls. I Facetime with my mom all of the time. It makes it much easier to talk to her since I can see her and hear it much better than in person, since she is in WI and I am in FL.
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@nurseheadakes Do you find that you can hear better on Facetime than on regular phone calls? My son brought that to my attention and then he went further and discovered that if you change a setting on your phone it helps a lot too. It's explained here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203078
I have done that now and it does help.
You are very fortunate that you can control your migraines. I never could, they were hormonal. Certain foods did exacerbate them when I was at a vulnerable time -- chocolate, onions, vinegar -- so I avoided them. My daughter now has them and it is possible that some of these factors may contribute to hers, but she is quite diligent in trying to avoid them as best she can. She does use triptans and has had a hearing loss that I recognized when she was 3 years old (she is now in her 30s) but her hearing has not gotten worse using triptans. Her most recent hearing aids are Resound also, and she loves them. I have Oticon Opn1, when I got them were considered to be most advanced in helping with clarity, and they do help but I wish they helped more than they do.
JK