Hearing Aid advice

[txdon]

Piloon not to knock your free medical system but the statement: "she claimed they would simply drive me nuts as they amplify EVERYTHING and would be a waste of $$'s." is not true. My hearing aids filter out unwanted noise and allow me to understand words. In the car I can switch to "car mode" and all the road and wind noise is filter out and I can hear my wife talking without saying "what" 10 times. In a crowd all background noise is also filtered out and the person talking to you is understood. The whole positive hearing experience with my aids has been the ability of the hearing aids to filter out the other noises. This was not so when I had my first hearing aids many many years ago. I would not recommend any hearing aids that did not filter out the noise.

In the retail business like Costco they guarantee that you will like them or you get back 100% of your money back. Is not this an incentive for quality?
What does your government do for quality incentives?

 

[jix]

Hello JC cummins...I empathize with your situation. I was in it myself a few years ago. Please let me try to reassure you...NO! you are not doomed. Hearing aides are.. hands down.. one of the best investments you will ever make. They make a big difference in ways that you probably will not believe until you wear them for awhile, they enable happiness among your family--and for yourself. They re-awaken your joy in living, and in appreciating your friends.
The most important part of owning hearing aides is a very good, well experience audiologist. There are lots of things the audiologist will do for you.. at no cost. Getting you the best hearing aides is a tricky form of art. Getting them programmed according to your hearing needs is another...they are adjustable to suit your sensory requirements in your living environment...that is perhaps the most important thing they do routinely. Helping you to acclimate to them is another. An experienced, licensed audiologist is essential, like rain on a garden and weeding the rows is essential. Good hearing extends a life span..and happiness in it..plus it is necessary for your safety and considerate to loved ones.

If I had Bill Gates money, I would buy hearing aides for all those who are missing out on so much..in their hearing, in their relationships, in in their everyday appreciatgion of being alive, aware, and tuned in.

Best of all...Somebody talks and you do not want to listen...They Turn Off!....But shhhh! I did not say that.

Good luck my TBN friend,

Jix

 

[cdaigle430]

I am almost 50 and I have worn hearing aids since I was 32, I have severe tinnitus and profound hearing loss-one ear useless and the other just about useless. I progressively lost hearing evry year up until 4 years ago. Hearing aids are a benefit not only in quality of life but in mental capacity. Hearing aids also will take some time to get used to and can be uncomfortably loud or just uncomfortable to wear at first.
The key thing to remember is get a good audioligist and know that you may have to go back several times to get them adjust right.
Also know that you need to protect them and maintain them for long lasting life, keep them clean and let them dry out every night.
Dont worry about how you look with them or how you think people will see you. I learned a lesson, though in the ear aids were better and more descrete than behind the ears-thats not true. I have BTE aids no and have had no ear aches since the ITE ones I had-most cant tell I wear them now.

 

[cdaigle430]

Also-remember dont go crazy with buying expensive hearing aids because it is recommended you replace them every 4-6 years anyway. Why-hearing loss adjustment and devices usually start to fail after several years anyway.

 

[jcummins]

Also-remember dont go crazy with buying expensive hearing aids because it is recommended you replace them every 4-6 years anyway. Why-hearing loss adjustment and devices usually start to fail after several years anyway.

Fear not....expensive....is part of the reasons I've not gotten any. $$$$$ just go so far, but 'something' for sure is in my future.

 

[truckdiagnostics]

Hello JC cummins...I empathize with your situation. I was in it myself a few years ago. Please let me try to reassure you...NO! you are not doomed. Hearing aides are.. hands down.. one of the best investments you will ever make. They make a big difference in ways that you probably will not believe until you wear them for awhile, they enable happiness among your family--and for yourself. They re-awaken your joy in living, and in appreciating your friends.
The most important part of owning hearing aides is a very good, well experience audiologist. There are lots of things the audiologist will do for you.. at no cost. Getting you the best hearing aides is a tricky form of art. Getting them programmed according to your hearing needs is another...they are adjustable to suit your sensory requirements in your living environment...that is perhaps the most important thing they do routinely. Helping you to acclimate to them is another. An experienced, licensed audiologist is essential, like rain on a garden and weeding the rows is essential. Good hearing extends a life span..and happiness in it..plus it is necessary for your safety and considerate to loved ones.

If I had Bill Gates money, I would buy hearing aides for all those who are missing out on so much..in their hearing, in their relationships, in in their everyday appreciatgion of being alive, aware, and tuned in.

Best of all...Somebody talks and you do not want to listen...They Turn Off!....But shhhh! I did not say that.

Good luck my TBN friend,

Jix

Often wondered why there is not a hearing aid rebuild program, they have them for cell phones. Not trying to be morbid here, but the family just spent $5,000 on hearing aids for my mother. SHE IS 83 If she makes it to 85 we will all be happy. We just wanted her to be able to hear in her last days. There is two slightly used hearing aids top of the line dad wanted the best! So, where do all these hearing aids end up? When she passes I would have no issue with giving them to say JC Cummins.

 

[txdon]

Often wondered why there is not a hearing aid rebuild program, they have them for cell phones. Not trying to be morbid here, but the family just spent $5,000 on hearing aids for my mother. SHE IS 83 If she makes it to 85 we will all be happy. We just wanted her to be able to hear in her last days. There is two slightly used hearing aids top of the line dad wanted the best! So, where do all these hearing aids end up? When she passes I would have no issue with giving them to say JC Cummins.

Now That is an excellent idea! Not only death but there are lots of people who want to trade up every few years (like phones) to get the latest technology.
Are second hand hearing aids or trade-ups even offered?

 

[truckdiagnostics]

If they can do it for a cell phone, why not hearing heads. Any how, small sampling that I did, spoke to my audiolgist, trying to donate my mother inlaws. As tackfully as she could, "medicare and medicade picks up large portion there is just not a market for them. We'll tell that to JC Cummins! Not a market for a $5,000 set of two year old hearing aids. But there must not be. Now you going to love what she said next. They do however send them too third world countries! Where doctors with out boards will work with them. How is them apples?

 

[jcummins]

Often wondered why there is not a hearing aid rebuild program, they have them for cell phones. Not trying to be morbid here, but the family just spent $5,000 on hearing aids for my mother. SHE IS 83 If she makes it to 85 we will all be happy. We just wanted her to be able to hear in her last days. There is two slightly used hearing aids top of the line dad wanted the best! So, where do all these hearing aids end up? When she passes I would have no issue with giving them to say JC Cummins.

THAT is a very thoughtful gesture. I really appreciate the thought.

I'm not in dire financial means, but it seems so many 'unplanned' expenditures come up in retirement that just keep you from putting the 2 to 6 grand back for things like this. Air conditioner going out...a close relative with financial issues to the tune of $4000....seems every year they are always there. I fear in another 5 years...this house will need a roof. Not to mention the I wants, and I wants a few things, besides the needs of a hearing aid.

I'm going to go at this slow so I can bone up on this technology. The more I read it seems the less I know about these things. From my reading, AFTER the purchase this requires a lot of tinkering, and trips to the audiologist. That part I'll have trouble with it....know it going into this. I'll probably go Costco due to cost, and it will be pretty much a day shot on each visit, since none real close. But also...I don't like cheap stuff that just doesn't quite cut it. I'll avoid purchases until I can get the right thing....I like quality. The features in these hearing aids surprise me, and also makes them desirable on my part. 10 years back...I could have REALLY used in particular the cell phone features. I took a lot of calls, and I struggled with hearing. Now...the TV is probably more important. BUT ALSO....things like sitting on my back porch and my wife talking of how noisy the hummingbirds are.....and I'm not hearing one thing. Got me to thinking about the various sounds of nature, and what I may or may not be missing. Know I was missing the hummers.

 

[truckdiagnostics]

Folks don't get me wrong reason I know about the used hearing aids issue is I had serious heart burn when I first got the pricing. And basically it was hey, what about my dead mother in law's hearing aids. Also, as cheap as i am $5,000 is half a car. And as in the hearing aids for my mother in law, taking something that was 3 years ago was worth $5,000 and throwing it in the trash I have a hard time with that. I waited two years after knowing i needed them and finally my family said, no new ZTR mower for you. Go get hearing aids. So, now I sit on a big box store mower that beats the heck out of my already bad back. Our business is crashing and burning because of the difference in the dollar to say every other currency in the world. Then have some one say well we don't do anything here with them because medicare and Medicaid usually picks up it up so there is no market for it. Oh, but we send them to third world countries! Give me a break! Everybody here in the US is happy because most of our economy is based on consumer spending, so nobody really notices. Right now if you are in any kind of business that has to export anything your toast! Now if your a big company, just buy one of those third world foreign companies, have them make your design. And have one of your workers is wearing my mother in law's hearing aids. I'm 53 and I don't know about the rest of you but... I have no choice but to invest in the stock market or i will never have enough money to retire and watching the stock market go up and down, I try not to let it bother me. I apologize I am on a rant And we ain't poor either I just can't stand pissing away money, mine or anybody else, the majority of us have worked to hard. Yes, we are still in a majority for now, today, this hour this second. Steveullinghair: