Size matters ;)

Do you like hearing aids big or small?

  • I like BIIIIIIIG hearing aids

    Votes: 4 21.1%

  • I like small hearing aids

    Votes: 4 21.1%

  • I don't care, I just want them to work either way

    Votes: 11 57.9%
  • Total voters
    19
RoseRodent

RoseRodent

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Every hearing aid relaunch models get smaller and smaller, and for those of us with arthritic hands (both young and old) that's becoming a major issue. You also get less and less time out of a battery as the SP range increasingly take 13 batteries - I miss my old 675 hearing aids! But I suppose for people who need the highest power like the Naida UP smaller is an improvement.

What do you prefer?

If you would like them to be smaller but it's not realistic because you have a profound loss then you can still vote for smaller, it's what you'd really like in an ideal world that counts.
 
Well, I'm profoundly deaf and I'm fine with the size of my HAs, it's not too big or too small.
 
Miss-Delectable said:
Well, I'm profoundly deaf and I'm fine with the size of my HAs, it's not too big or too small.
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Just out of curiousty, MD, what brand do you use? Are the brands in Australia the same as the US ones? Does the government still provide them free of charge as was in the '70s? Are they covered by Medicare?
 
My Naida UP is fine. I would not be thrilled if it were bigger.
 
Bottesini said:
My Naida UP is fine. I would not be thrilled if it were bigger.
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Wow, is your profile pic of the UP?! Looks really neat. Then I suppose most things seem small to me cos I have a full size HA plus audioshoes and universal FM.
 
RoseRodent said:
Wow, is your profile pic of the UP?! Looks really neat. Then I suppose most things seem small to me cos I have a full size HA plus audioshoes and universal FM.
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Yes that is the Naida UP. It really is very small for an ultra power aid. Earlier, I have had super power aids that were much bigger.

It makes me very happy with that size for UP> :)
 
I prefer small hearing aids to fit over my little ears LOL
I wouldn't be thrilled with the bigger one since they would bug me :D
 
as long as it fits my hearing loss, I don't really care. I used to wear HAs with size 13 batteries... but then in high school I got a new hearing aid that took 675's... been using 675's since then. The Naida UP is actually a nice size, I'm happy with it.
 
I have never cared about the size of my HAs. They seem to fit well (never seemed too big or too small). As long as I get what I want out of them, I'm happy.
 
I have never understood the fuss about the size of a HA. I LIKE people noticing that I'm hoh. From the way HA companies promote the smaller size, you'd think that the larger size is akin to an ear horn or one of those big bulky body worn aids!
 
BecLak said:
Just out of curiousty, MD, what brand do you use? Are the brands in Australia the same as the US ones? Does the government still provide them free of charge as was in the '70s? Are they covered by Medicare?
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I use Siemens. AHS here, I think, only provides Siemens.

Well, if you're deaf from birth, then HAs and services will be free until you're 25.

If you're on pension after 25 then HAs will be free but you'll have to pay for major repairs.

If you're working full time then you have to pay out of your pockets.

Once you reach senior age then HAs is free.
 
Miss-Delectable said:
I use Siemens. AHS here, I think, only provides Siemens.

Well, if you're deaf from birth, then HAs and services will be free until you're 25.

If you're on pension after 25 then HAs will be free but you'll have to pay for major repairs.

If you're working full time then you have to pay out of your pockets.

Once you reach senior age then HAs is free.
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Well $6,000 dollars for bilateral power aids is way out of my pocket and I am not yet 50 so I have a long wait until seniors. Plus with all the other cons for me with hearing aids - they are a no-go. Thanks anyway, was just curious. :wave:
 
I don't really care about the size of my HAs as long as I can hear with them!

My Siemens Reflex DSPs (NHS) use 675 batteries, I've not had any experience using smaller size batteries in all the 40 years I've worn HAs, but it must be a right pain if you have to keep changing them all the time.

I would like the option of another colour besides beige though, as Rose states elsewhere, it's a 'postcode lottery' as to what you get here in Britain. Where I live we're stuck with Siemens in beige!
 
RoseRodent said:
I suppose most things seem small to me cos I have a full size HA plus audioshoes and universal FM.
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Rose, what do you mean by 'a full size HA' etc. Having looked at the links to the photos you posted on another thread, your HAs look really tiny compared with mine and I also use audioshoes etc. If I remember rightly yours are open-fit Reflex Ms aren't they?
 
djchur said:
Rose, what do you mean by 'a full size HA' etc. Having looked at the links to the photos you posted on another thread, your HAs look really tiny compared with mine and I also use audioshoes etc.
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depends if you use "open fit" correctly or colloquially, they are not open fit but they are thin tubes - some people have a habit of calling anything with a dome on it "open fit" when what it really is is "instant fit" - in truth you can have an open-fit with moulds or a closed fit with domes, but since most people mean instant-fit when they say open-fit it's hard to make sense of what people really mean.

Full size as in they are not one of these little petite things, they are the same size as the SP in the private Phonak range (not Naida SP, never seen one of those IRL). They are probably smaller than yours cos the DSP has a 675 battery so that adds some size, but they are bigger than the current Siemens range even for NHS. The Reflex L is a "petite" so that's all I meant is it's full sized not a petite/Micro cos you can get tiny hearing aids or ones that are "normal" sized.

I never wear them like that, though, I always wear them with audioshoes and FM so that's why even the Naida UP looks neat and tidy! Side by side the Naida UP is slightly shorter than my total kit (M audioshoes are MUCH rubbisher than the DSP ones!!). Plus thin-tube hearing aids do tend to look smaller as there is an optical illusion of them looking longer with an elbow on, I pictured my hearing aids one with a mould on and one with the thin tubes side by side and someone said the one on the left is way smaller! :laugh2: Maybe other people's ears are bigger too, I have really, really short tubes.

Oh, and the pictures are not of the hearing aids where they naturally hang either, they are jacked up in my hair to get a better shot at them since I am trying to photograph my own ear, they don't sit up on my ear like that at all, they sit all the way down the back so you can just see them from the front sticking out from behind the ear when you look in the mirror.
 
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