You still didn't get the chance to read my long reply, it got cut off last time and I edited it and posted more. I disagreed with some of the things you said to me, it's not true. Also I provided her audiogram so you can see her loss starts at 60db(moderate) and slopes downwards from there. Her hearing is way better than mine.
I will start a new thread, my audiologist who sold me those HAs replied to my email and answered 5 of my questions, that's all the time he had. I never expected 0db to be realistic(not with my degree of loss anyway) The 5db figure is the max I can get, doesn't guarantee I will. My audie did say I can expect 15db to be realistic and that honestly is still great. I have only 65db loss at 125Hz and only 75db loss at 250Hz which is somewhat worse than Miss Kat's 60db loss. This also explains why I am not interested in a CI at this time. You made the choice for her. When/if I have children and they have only 60db loss, no way are they getting any CI. I was born with worse than 60db hearing loss at any frequency and benefitted fine from HAs(no digitals back then!) so I have been there and know what it's like.
It should come by no surprise I am also doing pretty well with my HAs since im able to be aided to 25db or better in the lows. Actually, I tested my aided score at 12.5db at 250Hz with my home test(ill post that in another existing thread)
It depends on how much residual hearing a person has. I have a decent amount of hearing at 500Hz and below so im hearing the lows great. If you can't hear even low frequencie well with HAs, it's likley your loss is profound even at 250Hz.
That would be labled as "normal with moderate high frequency loss" My dad has a similar loss to that but not enough to benefit yet from HAs. He has no trouble understanding speech despite a moderate high frequency loss(this is why I made a thread questioning the importance of high frequencies for speech) My type of loss is "severe with very profound high frequency loss"
I thought you said in another thread that she had only 60db loss when you decided to get her a CI? I would never get any of my future children a CI till they have 90+ db loss, nothing less than profound. I did see a few with moderate losses(40-70db) range get CI. I would love to trade my hearing for theirs anyday and would take their hearing anyday over any CIs because if I had only a moderate loss, id benefit so much from HAs. Look at Phi4Sius results(100% speech comphrension!) with his high power Unitron analog HAs. He has a 50db loss sloping down to 100+ db in the high frequencies. My audiologist stands correct when he said if I had 20db more residual hearing, id hear perfect with HAs.
