First day with hearing aids

They say hearing loss is a contributor to dementia.  It sort of makes sense if you think about it, less and less true interaction, information received from the world, etc.  I see it in my mom.  It's funny/ not funny in a way.  She went for a long time without hearing aids, then "cheap ones" that helped a little but not so great, and just a few weeks ago got some really expensive ones but work very well. (HEY!  I heard the toaster ding! )  A week before she got them, I came in the back door of my parent's house after finishing the feeding. Hear mom sobbing, tail end of an argument with dad, because he yelled at her so loud.  He says well you don't hear if I talk normally, so I raised my voice.  No, you yelled!  (I'm in the back room taking my work duds off, thinking what a pointless argument!)  Anyway, just last weekend, we're at lunch, she says something to dad which he didn't quite catch, so he asks, "What did you say?"  She got the most angry disgusted look on her face, snaps his head off about what she said!  Hahahaha.....I said to her, "Wow!  For someone who was so hard of hearing for so long, you sure have 0 patience for someone who didn't hear you."

That's a weird part of human psyche I wish we could change, that it makes people SO ANGRY when somebody doesn't hear.  I'm often guilty of it too.  

Simple Amps work for a short time then run out of ability to increase volume enough as deafen their wearer just by making noises louder and right into the ear.

I spent two visits thru a Hearing test booth, validated first exam with second, my aids do not amplify full range only those levels of frequency I could not hear.  They also mask my Tinnitus.

My first missed noise was Cicadas singing as I left with my New Aids in, been a good deal for me and allow me to keep my CDL.

Had that issue initially with mine, had the Audiology tech reset them at a lower base line and good to go without having to readjust every day.

tadams(OH) wrote: Wish my tinnitus would go away the hearing aids haven't help that.

It never goes away... sadly I have those very loud sirens going off in my ears too.  I've tried alot of things to lessen it but was a big waste of $$.  Once those nerves are damaged, it's done, fat lady sang on the ears.

I control my h/aids through my cell phone app.  There are *noise* settings that claim to lesson the sirens and they do to a point but I have to turn up the *white noise* so loud its very distracting albeit a different frequency so that in it's self is a nice treat every so often.

Other than that, I love my h/aids!  I can work and listen to my choice of music, hear my phone calls more clearly but, it really does not make understanding a spoke word/sentence any easier as it also brings up the level of any noise in your environment.  In a noisy environment, I can turn my volume to zero and it does give me a limited amount of environmental noise suppression but that is part is from the very loud sirens.  Things need to be pretty loud to be heard over those.

Good thread. Thanks!

 I have had my new ears since 3-11 22. Sill learning about them too. I believe they have reduced my tinnitus by maybe 50%.

Increased my ability to hear small noises that were not heard before, small very small details!

Was told by the hearing tester that mine will ramp from 60% to 100% in about 6 weeks.

Also he mentioned that if hearing loss goes too long the human brain can become to think the jumbled words are the correct language, and turning up the volume doesn't help a person with severe long term hearing loss to understand spoken words. That sure was news to me.

So I am trying to wear mine all day. Sometimes forgetting to put them in the mornings. I have the chargeable type too.

The wife said I could not hear her. She was somewhat correct, I can hear better now!:)

Just trying to maintain at 70!

Regards,

 Chris

  I go tomorrow to VA to have my hearing aids and hopefully a new hearing test cause what I have isn't working