I had a very scary experience once involving WD40 in a 2L crinkly plastic water bottle.
It exploded with a vengeance. Lucky I didn't lose my eyesight. and it was indoors.
Completely lost my hearing for about 5 minutes
When the sound came back everything sounded robotic and digitised. Took about half an hour for sounds to be back to normal. Can't have done me much good
Interesting... I’m very similar to @Cobbler in that I don’t always catch the opening part of a conversation, but I’m fine once ‘tuned in’ to the conversation....
My concern is always about extraneous background noise - whilst I don’t have any hearing aids (yet... my wife would say...), I find crowded rooms etc to be difficult as there is so much background and yet my Dad, who did wear a hearing aid, said he could pick out a conversation across the other side of the pub
Interesting... I’m very similar to @Cobbler in that I don’t always catch the opening part of a conversation, but I’m fine once ‘tuned in’ to the conversation....
if someone talks to me i initially dont know what they said. when they repeat i can hear everything no matter how far away they are or how quiet they talk .did have a hearing test done and it wasn't 2 bad so i recon it must be something in the brain not picking up the 1st word i hear them talk but not what they said
Apparently this is a problem when you loose the higher frequencies, you become unable to sort out the background noise from the conversation. With a group in a pub I struggle to hear, get a juke box as well, I might as well go home!Interesting... I’m very similar to @Cobbler in that I don’t always catch the opening part of a conversation, but I’m fine once ‘tuned in’ to the conversation....
My concern is always about extraneous background noise - whilst I don’t have any hearing aids (yet... my wife would say...), I find crowded rooms etc to be difficult as there is so much background and yet my Dad, who did wear a hearing aid, said he could pick out a conversation across the other side of the pub
70 years and counting."Send reinforcements we are going to advance "
(What's he say?)
Send three and four pence we are going to a dance!
Went for a hearing test today .
Worked in noise all my life .
Race car engines were probably the worst .
As expected my hearing is very poor.
Was fitted with some test hearing aids . the difference was astounding .
Real ones coming next week , price of a good AC DC TIG set .
Any advice from users on the forum (hearing aid users)
The ones I went for can be controlled by a app on my phone & are rechargable
Really comes down to personal preference on the brand and type.
I’m exclusively CIC (completely in canal) which means they’re near invisible - comes with the downside of smaller batteries and smaller vents (meaning they’re more liable to choking with wax or sweat). However,
i’ve been wearing them since day dot, and I grew up in a small town with the small-town mindset, so I hate folk noticing them.
BTE (behind the ear) are a good option if you’re less fussed about visibility, but even now in 2022 they can be a pain in the backside when mixed with glasses, hats or (e.g..!)) welding helmets!!
Phonak are great, though not my preference. Starkey are amazing.
Oticon and Audibel i believe are owned by either of those two (parent companies) so tech will be similar but scaled-down. Widex are highly-regarded.
NHS contract is for Oticon and Audibel round my way: totally useless given my loss, but more than passable for most folk who’ve “lost” hearing (whereas I just never had it..!)
Would basically avoid your high street gaffs such as Boots, Specsavers, etc. They’re purely salespeople looking to punt the most expensive aids they can to folk, they are totally tied in to one or two brands, but they’re going to end up being an R-tech mig for the price of a fronius tig.
Go local: you’ll find much better services and generally much more agreeable pricing. FWIW i pay in the region of £3600-4200 per set. I stick to batteries because i can’t trust them to last long enough (and sure as f**k can’t afford a second pair to wear whilst they’re charging!!) vs changing batteries quickly!
Do shop around. Do try various brands until you find a “sound” you like. Do ignore the various bells and whistles - you want hearing aids for hearing, earphones for music, and plugs for protection… you wouldn’t buy a Triumph kettle(!) apps are pretty w*nk overall, all you need is the ability to turn up and down the volume 99% of the time - occasionally you’ll want a different sound profile, but not often (in my experience..!)
Gives a shout if you want any more info - PM probably best as I’ve hardly been on here in ages, so will at least see an email!
Cheers for the namedrop @KimB - delighted you’re getting on great with yours!!
Anything that goes bang is interesting
With you completely on the CIC rather than behind the ear- those are just not compatible with whipping specs, ear defenders, masks on and off.
I get by with one Siemens CIC with remote, although in practice I never change the level. 18 months worth of Rayovac batteries on Amazon for about 25 euros. They last, astonishingly for things so vanishingly small, about five days.
The hearing aid was nearly £2000 in the UK, I sent my audiology test to a guy in Germany on ebay and he sent me one, ex display, programmed perfectly for me. 480 euros with the remote. Four years in and going strong.
Psychologically I re-entered the world. I hadn't realised how withdrawn from social exchange I'd become. For anyone in doubt, do it.
Where did you go, and would you recommend them? Im assuming they were in the toonHearing aids are ready .
Fitting and set up in the morning .
I feel strangely exited.
The lads at work have been taking the urine all week .
Looking forward to failing more wheel bearings lol