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Single Sided Hearing Loss
I'm amazed how many posts there have been lately about single sided hearing loss and think having our own thread might be beneficial. I'm missing something really important about this issue and hope someone will please help me understand it. I used to explain my hearing issue to people who asked as follows: when you have two good ears, sound comes in from both sides and your brain can select what it wants to "hear". When you have only one good ear, sound comes in on one side and your brain can't separate out what it wants to "hear." It's all noise. Is that right or am I totally wrong? If it is right and I get the cros hearing aid, how will moving sound from my deaf ear over to my good ear make any difference in my ability to hear? Sound is still going in one side and will still be noise. I understand that if I need the bicros hearing aid, it will pick up the sound from my deaf ear, move it to my good ear and enhance the ability to hear in my good ear. This is really complex. I'm rooting for the new technology in the article Ken sent out about growing new tiny hairs in the ears of hard of hearing people to help them hear more clearly. Thanks for helping me understand this. Nancy
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@barbb. I hope I didn't give the wrong information. I think Ellen said something about gamma knife radio surgery and mentioned she went home shortly after the procedure. Like you, I wondered what the heck it was and how she could recover so quickly. I was in St Mary's for at least a week and then took quite a while to recover fully at my mother's house. I did a google search where gamma knife radio surgery was described as noninvasive surgery...so those were my words, not hers. Here is an article about it. https://www.barrowbrainandspine.com/what-we-treat/brain-tumor/gamma-knife/ The strides that have been made from 1987 when I had the surgery to now are almost too much to fathom. I'm not sure what the size of my tumor was or where it was exactly located, However, I'll never forget the discussion or picture the doctors showed me of a hole the size of a pencil where the hearing nerve and facial nerve went through my skull into the brain where the tumor was. My gratitude for my positive outcome began with my doctor in Illinois, who said he wouldn't refer me to any place but Mayo because doctors there were removing the tumors without damaging the facial nerve. I'm really sorry you weren't so fortunate...maybe it did have something to do with the size of the tumor. Take care...Nancy
thank you so much nia4625. i will check it out. and btw, nextdoor.com is a community or neighborhood "gossip/info" site where your neighbors chat about anything and everything local, with suggestions and tips, and questions.
great info, th1. will look into them.
I don't get Consumer Reports. Can you tell me the year this information was given. Amberwaves
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I should have included the website for Consumer Reports before -- it is http://www.consumerreports.org. They usually divide their informative reports into three categories: overview; ratings and reliability; and buying guide. I'm not sure if you will get all of the information if you aren't a subscriber, so I copied the info available and pasted it below. I hope you will be able to open these links...sometimes when I send them it doesn't work, sigh. If you can't open them, you could go to their web site and search for hearing aids or do a google search on Consumer Reports Hearing Aids. The date on the buying guide was January 2019. I would bet they will be updating this soon and will watch for the latest information in their newsletters. AARP probably has some good information on hearing aids too, which I'll check out before I start my hearing aid shopping trip. Won't it be fun to go shopping? I hope this helps! I should have mentioned why I haven't been looking at OTC hearing aids. I need a special type of hearing aid for people who can hear in only one ear; and I think, maybe incorrectly, I have to get them through an audiologist or hearing center to be fitted properly. Additionally, I'm so protective of my good ear, I'm a little worried about putting anything in it that might damage it, even a reliable tried and true tested hearing aid. I am frankly amazed people buy prescription eye glasses that work for them over the internet, so maybe some day soon the same will be true for hearing aids. I still get my glasses from the optician in my ophthalmologist's office. Happy Valentine's Day -- one of my favorite holidays. Flowers, hearts and chocolates...what's not to love? Nanvy
Overview
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/hearing-aids.htm
Buying Guide
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/hearing-aids/buying-guide/index.htm
Ratings and reliability
https://www.consumerreports.org/products/hearing-aids-36930/hearing-aid-retailers-200074/view2/
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1 ReactionMy husband says, “It opens up your world.”
Me too. We can’t afford to get my husband new aids.
@faithwalker007, you may be interested in this informative discussion with tips from fellow members.
- Help! I can't afford to buy hearing aids https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/help-11/
@dwi You might want to ask @golden418 about his experiences with the older phonak bicros hearing aids and the newer models. He is the person who told me there was a hearing aid that would help me, which I hadn't known. I think he said the one he got 6 years ago didn't help him very much but the newer models had been greatly improved and did. Hopefully you will find the same when you get your new ones. Nancy
Hopefully I will be able to return to the states next summer. Once I return I plan on checking out the latest models.
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