Do I need hearing aids?

Saavik said:
It would be nice to hear better and ending the ringing would be great. Last hearing test I took they had a small box like thing in a room and I'm claustrophobic, I worry about being put in that kind of thing again.
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The ringing won't be magically cured by anything.
Haring aids will make sounds louder but NOT clearer.

Depending on your hearing loss they may be perfect for you. This is something you should be talking to your audiologist and ENT doctor about.

Haring aids won't be a perfect fix but if you have mild to moderately severe hearing loss, you will likely have a wonderful time with hearing aids.

As for captel, it is hit and miss. I've used VRS, captioned telephones and other "solutions" but there are major problems with them. I prefer to just text. That way I see exactly what the person I'm talking to is saying.
 
Saavik said:
It would be nice to hear better and ending the ringing would be great. Last hearing test I took they had a small box like thing in a room and I'm claustrophobic, I worry about being put in that kind of thing again.
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My friend has a moderate loss and tinnitus. She finds the tinnitus does not go with hearing aids.

She wear the Naida SPs but copes very well without them. As she only has a moderate loss, she says she can hear well without hearing aids when in the quiet but struggles without her hearing aids when in noise.

She has a ski slope loss starting from the top of moderate all the way to the start of severe.
 
I was looking at a document showing the cost of my hearing aids, out of the $3k overall cost, the biggest expense is for $1200 for fitting. What do they mean by fitting and why is that worth $1200? I'm just curious.
 
As for the cost of $1200.00 for "fitting" ask the person who charged that amount for an explanation. Seems simple.:wave:
 
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Saavik said:
Moderate range is a large area to guess exactly where it's at when you don't have enough details to know. Key there is "when I was little", I'm an adult and grew up hearing, I love music and playing guitar. It's like a guy telling another guy to relax because a circumcision wasn't bad, when the person telling the other to relax had it done before they were really aware of anything.

If you were a runner and ran every day of your life and suddenly your legs didn't work so well and getting around without looking foolish was incredibly hard, if not impossible and you could no longer enjoy running or anything like that because you had issues in both knees, but there were options you couldn't afford.

Fear not, an agency said they could pay for it, so you might be mobile and enjoy some of the things you once did, and were under the impression it would take maybe a few months and got told it would be a year or more, I bet you'd be irriated, hopeless.

Not everyone is going to be happy 100% of their lives, that's a fact.

I'm not determined to intentionally do anything, but when I want to hear things, it is damaging, but there isn't a lot I can do but give up on things I enjoy like music and just playing my guitar, et cetera. I don't need pity, just understanding FFS.
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There are more of us on this forum who have later onset deafness as well. I was 19. I used to sing competitively, was going to study English as a Second Language with a linguistics scholarship, and I had a social life that revolved around music.

I went YEARS before I got hearing aids. I lost my scholarship. I changed my academic direction. I haven't sung (except in the shower), and my taste in music has changed dramatically. I didn't do hearing aids from the start because they were uncomfortable. I preferred to use visual means of communication.

I did see a psychiatrist while I was adapting to my loss. It's isolating and scary - I can totally give you that. But the thing that helped the greatest was just adapting to a new normal, picking up some new hobbies with the friends who wanted to stay, starting to study something new, and loving the new stuff. Every person on this forum is learning or has learned that they won't hear normally. Deafness is not a cruel sentence. It's just another path. It sucks when it's put on you but after you start to accept it there are people far worse off than you for other reasons. It redefines you but it's not going to kill you or rob you of potential.

I wear hearing aids now and they're pretty useless for understanding conversations. Don't think so high and mighty about them. There are plenty of ways to keep going in school in the interim. Online classes? Be resourceful and take advice from these forums - everyone is trying to help.
 
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