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Hearing Loss | Last Active: Mar 9, 2023 | Replies (20)Comment receiving replies
It was $6,000 for 2 but to me it seems excessive. I have a friend who paid more than that for a pair and they don't seem to work very well for him.
I shall probably try Costco again but the last time I went there for a hearing test, they wouldn't do it because I had too much wax build up. Then when I had them syringed I was going away and couldn't get in there. Now I probably need them syringed again.
I would prefer invisible hearing aids first of all because I like to wear earrings and it looks kind of stupid with a hearing aid next to the earring. Also in England where I came from the free NHS aids were quite large and were outside the ear. My Granny wore some and they were ugly and aging. I don't think there are many aids now that aren't mostly invisible so that is not a problem. I just want the best hearing for the least price.
My Mother had the sort that were totally in the ear and she had moulds made. With most of the hearing aids, I have had trouble fitting the little wire part in my ear. I am always told how small my ear channels are and I think that the inner type might be better for me.
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Hi, @navia
You mention a friend with expensive hearing aids that do not seem to work well for him. You do need to be aware that depending on how severe the hearing loss is it can be much more difficult to treat. My loss is profound in one ear and severe in the other. Typically, I can hear what is being said but cannot understand it. That is very common in older people especially. My husband will speak louder and that does sometimes help but not always. When it's understanding what was said it's a completely different situation.
My hearing aids were the most innovative in speech recognition when I got them a couple of years ago, so it's not the HAs, it's me.
I do have "behind the ears" HAs, the smaller ones are not powerful enough to compensate for my hearing loss. They really are not noticeable though unless you have extremely short hair, and as others have said it's actually good for people to be aware that you have a hearing loss. Since the days when your Granny had hearing aids things have changed a lot and the behind the ears ones are much smaller. My daughter is 40 and she has been wearing hearing aids since she was 4. Her original hearing aids were much larger than what she has now. Interestingly, her hearing loss is not related to mine! I recognized that she had a hearing loss when she was 3. My hearing loss started when I was in my late 50s, and our losses are opposite to each other. I have more trouble with higher pitches, she has more trouble with lower ones.
Speaking of pitches, if a person has more trouble with higher pitches they generally have more problems with speech recognition because many letters have high pitches when in words.
JK