in reply to @pmrsuzie The best hearing aids I ever had were the pair of Oticon hearing aids, and they lasted a very long time. Wearing two hearing aids was not helpful to me so I "saved" one of them for when the other one stopped working. When the second one stopped working during COVID I was able to obtain a refurbished hearing aid, and it has been very helpful to me. Because I never really "used" my left ear, my audiologist determined that a hearing aid in my left ear would not work, even though she was willing to provide one to me. I do use my left ear when I use earbuds to listen to music while out walking, and I can hear the music quite well. This has helped me "retrain" my left ear; however, I do not think I will get another hearing aid for the left ear. Sometimes it feels like the noise is just too much, and I am satisfied with what I cannot hear, if that makes sense. I do rely upon lip reading as a habit, and did undergo speech therapy as a child so that my speech is clear and does not have the sound like many of those who have a profound hearing loss as I do. In fact, many people do not realize I have a hearing loss because my voice is rather low and I am able to understand most of the conversation bt lio reading. A cochlear implant has been suggested to me, but I am not interested in the device, as I had a friend who lost her hearing and was provided with an implant. It took her until just recently to start listening to music again because learning to hear with the implant is a whole different animal, as I am sure you know. My sister also has a profound hearing loss, has two very expensive hearing aids, but because she waited so long to get hearing aids, her hearing is just as bad as it always was and I still have to raise my voice quite loudly when I speak to her, especially on the phone, and as you can imagine, this can be frustrating.
Best of luck