Who else is deaf as a post like me?

I ignored the Insurance company telling me the Cheaper ones work as well and the ads saying 'do not spend all that much for aids' and went thru a Audiologist that could NOT Would NOT recommend the basic aids.  Mine are PHONAK, are electronically/Computer adjustable for frequencies and tones levels not just amplifiers, were NOT cheap but work well for me, get my phone calls thru them and can mute them when in too much too many directions noise as in crowded stores.  Still behind the ear but also rechargeable and bought the extended warranty that has already replaced the guts in one.  Molded to my ears inserts not the folded points ear pieces so can wear all day no digging discomfort.

Edited by DMiller - 02 Oct 2021 at 11:11am

Deaf in one ear and can't hear out of the other one. After 36 years of working around jet engines most of my high frequency hearing is gone and old tractors and guns worked on the low frequency end. I have still not gotten hearing aids but if I tried them and heard what I was missing I might consider it. 

sometimes....silence is golden!

Hard time picking out a conversation If there is a lot of background noise. And with the pandemic people wearing masks talking thru barriers and not making eye contact it is very difficult to hear and understand. I guess when our hearing is going we actually learn to read lips a little bit. 

Edited by NDBirdman - 03 Oct 2021 at 2:51pm

Well, like most of you, my own fault, life time of open headers, rock n roll, and firearms with no protection. Got so bad, I could not hear on a cell phone. first set of hearing aids helped but still not great. actually, the second, first set was the cheapies, and were of no help at all! took them back after two weeks and traded for a considerably more expensive pair, which, as I say helped, but, I don't think the Audiologist knew what she was doing. She struggled with them, they were programable with a computer, and she wasn't getting it. Anyhow, had those for five years and they went belly up. So now I have Signa's.....not cheap, but they help tremendously. They can be adjusted via cell phone for local conditions, and they are rechargeable, which lasts about 20 hrs. Still not what God gave me, but way better than it was. 

My Aunt in ID and a few friends of mine have lost hearing in one ear, different doctors have told them ALL is a version of Chicken Pox Virus that has laid dormant then reactivates settling on specific nerves much as shingles does.  One gent I have been a co-worker and friend of lost total hearing in right ear, aids do nothing and has a screaming ring, that has been lessened by using a 'Gamma Knife' radiation technology to sever that damaged nerve to a greater part but not all which limits eventually ending the continued presence of the CP Virus in that nerve.

ford8nwd wrote: I just got a new set, courtesy of the VA, and they work great. The VA also gave me a remote transmitter that broadcasts direct to my hearing aids. We go out to lunch once a month with neighbors and the gal sits across from me in the booth and is very soft spoken.  I put the new transmitter on the table and I could hear her great. My wife can wear it around her neck in the kitchen and is wonderful. They had given me the previous edition which did not work at all in the restaurant. You hear complaints about the VA, but I have had nothing but good experiences with their care, over 20 years now. I'd be interested in hear a bit more about them, make, model, etc