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What are your favorite apps for hearing loss or tools you use?
Hearing Loss | Last Active: Mar 21, 2021 | Replies (153)Comment receiving replies
@julieo4 My Starkey Hearing Aids (HAs) are such that the HA in the left (bad) ear (which does not hear anything except at Jet Plane Decibels 85-90db) is just a receiver of sound from that direction which it then transmits that sound to the good ear (right side) hearing aid.. that right side hearing aid then transmits both signals through to the inner ear for hearing... It would do no good to send signals from the good ear to the bad ear .... That left side HA that retransmits to the good ear is really helpful when I am not driving and sitting in the passenger side and someone wants to talk all the time without turning toward me to speak...
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Ken / Julie what helps when you are a passenger in a vehicle. I have profound hearing loss, my left ear is pretty much deaf so I listen with the 20% in my right ear. My audiologist has suggested the cross over hearing aids and was thinking of giving them a try but at $3,000 an aid I have held off until just recently thinking of them again. I like the microphone portion of the Starkey aid that could help in a vehicle.?
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I wore a bi-cross hearing aid for several years. That was my first experience with hearing aids. That was in the late 70s. Back then there was a wire running behind my head from side to side to connect the transmitter to the receiver on the side I heard on. Today, bi-cross aids are wireless. So, yes, I was only hearing in one ear, but it gave me the ability to pick up sound on the unaided side. I had been told that my 'usable hearing on that side was nil', so was not worth aiding. In 2005 I received a cochlear implant on that 'deaf' side. It has given me binaural hearing. It has been a miracle. My loss is sensorineural, most likely noise induced but with a genetic tendency. Turned out the problem was in the cochlea/inner ear. The auditory nerve was functional. It was not being stimulated so sound wasn't getting to the brain for interpretation. Have you considered a cochlear implant?