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Hearing loss and cognitive decline Dec 12, 2023 | By Dona Locke (@DrDonaLocke)Comment receiving replies
I was examined by an ENT and I have mild cognitive impairment and vertigo. My hearing loss resulted in my having to wear hearing aids. My vertigo therapy didn’t work. So this was abut 6 years ago.
I can’t wear my hearing aids because I wear eyeglasses and they constantly compete for ear space at the top of my ear with my eyeglasses.
My hearing is a little bit off. I have a hard time keeping up with people talking to me or just talking.
How do you keep hearing aids from sliding off your ears? I don’t wear my brand new hearing aids anymore because of this issue. My glasses either sit on the back of the hearing aids pushing them forward or sliding down my ears and getting all crooked.
Unfortunately the eyeglasses won out and my hearing aids are sitting in their case. I haven’t worn hearing aids in a long time and just deal with the lack of hearing properly.
I was tested for dementia at a memory center hospital and my tests were fine. No dementia or altzheimers but I was diagnosed with a mild cognitive impairment. I don’t know what the solution is. I was thinking of in-the -ear hearing aids but they are super expensive.
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I have over the ear hearing aids (Phonak Naida Q) and I wear glasses. I have no problems with these hearing aids. Also the best thing that I love about these hearing aids is Blue Tooth. These are VA hearing aids. My cell phone is on Blue Tooth and my TV. Now I am not blasting out the wife or friends and my cell phone is very clear. I now understand the value of Blue Tooth for me. I want to tell everyone when you get a hearing aid please make sure it has Blue Tooth. You and your family will love it. Also they are recharge type.
Are you ex military. If so go to them for free hearing aids, no cost to you just get appt.
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I am 50, have other health problems causing MCI and hearing loss, and I tried hearing aids with glasses and it was awful - glasses sat crooked or hearing aids were crooked, I ended up having to ruin the arms on my frames to bend around the aid where it looped up and over. I eventually got rid of the aids - I don’t really need to hear anything because I hardly speak to anyone/have anyone near me (I have no family and an immune disease so socialising is 100% not possible for someone like me). And the issue I found with tiny in ear aids is the problem of dropping/losing them - I have peripheral neuropathy so I couldn’t feel them in my hands, so I would drop them when trying to put them in/take them out. Now, I just wear earbuds Bluetoothed to my phone, and turn them up so they are loud, so I can hear things clearly as needed via the phone. If someone has a tone of voice I cannot hear (certain pitch/tone voices I just can’t hear at all), I use the voice recorder on my phone and blast the recording via the earbuds into my mostly useless ears 😉
I don’t own any hearing aids anymore - they just were not practical or suitable for concurrent glasses frame use.