Finally got used to my hearing aid

I have a hearing aid and never get used to it.. rarely use it apart from watching TV as I find the excess noise in public to be annoying.
 
Thanks for all the **** tek lads - sorry boys - sorry infants - In my day eyes and ears were not considered - just be thankful your works make it mandatory for eye and ear protection. -

Lamdjdz - forget hearing aid for TV - Get a pair of WiFi head phones - they are great - It is amazing how noisy everything is with hearing aids especially the supermarket with all those stupid parents letting their kids shout and run around uncontrolled

Mine are NHS aids - I am a baby boomer poor pensioner.- I didn't grow up in London or had a council house.
 
I'm only 30 and think mine was from listening to loud music through headphones daily when I was a teenager. Coupled with working in a noisy factory for a few years. Left ear is bad right ear is fine for now..
 
Uther said:
Laugh now young ones, this is your future, along with baldness, getting up to pee 10 times a night and varifocals...
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I'm 63!

Having to deal with enough old **** already. :p

Luckily my hearing is holding up though (touch wood).
 
Fortunately these days having a hearing test is more hi-tec - They put hearing buds in your ears - set up mic's behind your ears and plug in a laptop - They then feed tones from all the frequencies into your ear and you press a button when you hear it. That way they can tell where your deafness is in frequency range - Mine would you believe was around frequency of wife's voice (That's what 45 years of marriage does) - Somewhere along the route they play noise again without buds and you press button again - The mic's behind your ears picks up sound as well so they can match (I think that's how it was) - Then they program your hearing aids to the results they had - in other words tune it to your ears.

Unfortunately it's not what you expect - Every little sound is amplified so a lot of time you get a screech of mish mash sound - I think everyone expects your hearing to be back as it was - Thing I miss most is listening to quality HiFi sound - The internet radio is awful unless it's turned up quite high - it sounds better if I take the hearing aids out.
This is where WiFi Over ear headphones come in - Just plug base into a sound out on TV or whatever and I can turn them up for me and wife uses sound off TV - - If on my own I use head phones and mute TV.
Being deaf (or blind) really isn't funny so all you young people take care of it now while you have a chance.

ps I am not totally deaf - just in certain frequencies but deaf enough to keep saying Ya wot :rolleyes:
 
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