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@julieo4 This year I made the change to rechargeables so I have not yet experienced the problem of them getting older.

There are pros and cons to both. I live in New Hampshire where major snowstorms can knock out power for more than a day and this occurred to me recently, what would I do if we lost power for two or three days? I guess I would have to dig out my old HAs and rely on them.

I am very ambivalent. I was really on the fence on whether to go with rechargeables or not and decided to go with them rather than being on the phone and suddenly having a HA die, which seemed to happen too frequently. Honestly though, I am not sure that I would make the same decision now.

I need to get back to my audiologist. Initially she used my old molds with the new aids but then she took the impressions and I got new power molds. Thes have changed the aids and I think I need her to reprogram them.
JK

I know this is one downside but when I got mine my audiologist did say that she will bring me on right before my warranty is up and have the batteries replaced so I’ll be starting non warranty with new batteries in them and hopefully that will get me close to when I need new aids. I like to replace mine every 6 years or so.