Need hearing aid advice.

[orezok]

My wife is a retired Navy Captain so we get the majority of our health care at the Naval Hospital. Recently she had a hearing issue and we got a consult to the hospital audiologist. I wear custom hearing aids that cost over $4,000 at an outside audiologist.

I found out that my cost at the hospital for the exact same aids would be $900.

Talk about a markup scam.

 

[gillrich]

Anyone has Phonak Audeo? What are the pros/cons? Appreciate
Also what is your opinion about teleaudiology? Do you think hearing issues can be solved online or that is absolutely not possible? Curious if someone actually tried that before?

 

[workinonit]

I have Phonaks and absolutely love them. Best aids I've ever had. I have very significant loss with completely different Hz loss in each ear. These hearing aids make hearing like I could 30 years ago. I can't use the rechargables so the biggest con for me is battery life. These things eat batteries when using them for TV watching on Bluetooth. Aside from that, no cons.

 

[RSKY]

Got my Wydex Hearing Aids last night. I did exactly what I swore I would not do. Got them at the first place I went to.

Guy was an excellent salesman. He didn't go into a sales pitch, he simply showed me what the aids could do and set up a test set with his computer equipment. I started complaining about them having a clicking noise in them and he started laughing. It was the fan on the computer sitting under his desk. The adjustments I can make on my I-phone are what finally sold me. My wife is tickled pink with them, we watched TV last night with the volume turned down to a comfortable setting and not blaring loud enough that the neighbors can hear it.

RSKY

 

[workinonit]

They are amazing. The tech has gotten 10 fold better in the last 10 years. I do the same things, hear something that I don't know what it is only to find out it is some everyday noise that I haven't heard in 30 years.