Fl. Mary
Thank you for your thoughts on Earlens and on hearing aids in general. I really am not interested and in any case may not even be eligible (you mention you would not be but in the literature the ENT pushed on me I didn’t see any discussion of criteria. My word recognition in one ear has plummeted such that the regular audi sent me to this ent for an auditory brain response test (to check for a tumor I think) but he said it was just an “aging” auditory nerve. So like you one ear is not much use although I do have an aid in that ear still.
From 3 years ago I have Phonak Audeos. I will look up your powerful Phonak Nadias and what a Bicros for your bad ear is! My regular audiologist seems conscientious but not too forthcoming. When I go annually for a checkup he makes some small adjustment to my phonaks and hasn’t suggested that new aids would help but the practice prides itself in not pushing aids that are not necessary and maybe go too far in that respect. My insurance is very generous so it is not a question of cost and it is not clear to me that I couldn’t get more help out of another hearing aid. (Without hearing aids I struggle to understand my husband at all right beside me). I am thinking of perhaps changing audiologists to a teaching hospital hearing center in the big city where I live to perhaps get someone more proactive. Hard for me to evaluate. When I got these new aids 3 years ago I actually could not detect much difference from the oticons I had had before! But thank you for joining the conversation- the earlens is a non starter for me but I was curious as to why the ENT was pushing it ($$$s for this high end practice I cynically wonder?). However your post has prompted me to look into whether there are better hearing aids out there now for me.