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In your case, I bet it really is just your brain in a feedback loop from the hearing loss of certain frequencies. So getting aids sounds like a double-win. Now, if you can just do it affordably. It isn't just the initial price either. Expect them to be like a smart phone- wearing out, breaking, needing updates, service, batteries, etc. Blah.
I don't wear 'em (yet) but a word of advice. Whether at home or in public, if you can, reach around and flush the toilet before you stand up, even if you haven't finished all of the paper work yet. One of the things worse than fishing your accidentally dislodged expensive hearing aid out of the toilet, is fishing it out of a recently used toilet. Words of wisdom (or woe) from a now departed family member.
Might want to wear earmuffs in a port o potty.
BTW: I can read everything you folks wrote MUCH better and clearer with these new hearing aids.
But are the voices in your head still coming through loud and clear or is there now electrical interference?
BDF: Glad to hear that the aide's are improving your ability to read..
If it helps you, there is hope for all of us.. <grin>
Ride safe, Ted
Went to adjust the left one to a higher volume setting only to find out that they do not do that. The volume of both hearing aids changes together and cannot be separately adjusted by the user; to change that, they must be sent back to Colorado. There is no charge but it will take at least a week. So I looked at some of the other models I had previously looked at and it seems that that feature is one lost on all of the "low cost" (if you consider over a grand 'low cost') aids
Did these low-cost ones not apply your custom waveform you got from the audiologist (your hearing test results graph)? It seems even some of the cheaper ones would do that (you might not be able to do it yourself, but they might). The custom waveform would already include the volume adjustments per ear, as well as what frequencies need boosting and how much, since each ear has a different graph.
How about putting the new battery in the one that needs to be louder and moving that used battery over to the one that needs to be oem muffler loud?
Brian, what do you mean that the Optican Ones seemed to “cure” your tinnitus?
I have mild tinnitus and it sucks.
When I ride, I wear a pair of Bose bluetooth noise cancelling earbuds. They are incredible. They help to keep the noise down and protect my ears, albeit to a smaller degree than actual earplugs. Plus, I can actually hear my music as opposed to my Sena, which only has average sound fidelity and does nothing for noise.
The hearing aids do NOT 'cure' my tinnitus. What they actually do is distract me from it because there are actual sounds from outside that I 'hear' (read: perceive) and so simply do not 'hear' (read: pay mental attention to) the hiss that is still there.
Unfortunately for you, me, and millions of people, there is no cure for tinnitus.
The example I like to use to explain what you are saying is imagine trying to sleep in your bedroom and hearing rather loud water dripping in the sink next to your room. Also imagine there is no way to stop it dripping and you can't do anything about it. That is tinnitus (in some ways). If you have some soft music playing or the white noise of fan running, that background noise will help to mask the water dripping so you don't notice it as much, "drowning it out." But it is still dripping and dripping, forever.
What you describe with the hearing aids makes perfect sense. You probably have "typical" hearing loss, which is in the higher frequencies. And that is often where the tinnitus sound is too, in the higher frequencies. Mine is a constant tone of about 13Khz (although I don't believe I have much, if any, hearing loss). Although other people have a mix of frequencies which sounds like a hiss. With hearing loss in the same range, there is no external sounds you hear to help mask it as effectively. Add hearing aids can help that at lot, because it restores more distracting and masking sounds.
This is what my hearing curve looks like:[...]13 KHz is pretty high; I doubt I can even hear anything in that freq. range anymore. 8 KHz is the highest the hearing test went and it was more than far enough, unfortunately.