Oh yeah, they're not cheap. I think they paid something like £2.5-3k for the pair, but they bought the top of the line ones. I'm sure they'll come down in price, but who knows when.
Is anyone using a Specsavers hearing aid.
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Oh yeah, they're not cheap. I think they paid something like £2.5-3k for the pair, but they bought the top of the line ones. I'm sure they'll come down in price, but who knows when.
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Still can't get a Meniettes Device on the NHS. Also I just wrote and deleted a whole wall of text about my dizzyness. Might be too off topic even though its caused by the ears.
If the surgery fails then everything up to and including your death is possible
You will have to sign to say you've been told and understand risks of the procedure and risks of surgery in general.
Obviously none of it is compulsory and it's all a balance of what you want to risk for a possible life improvement.
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If the surgery fails then everything up to and including your death is possible
You will have to sign to say you've been told and understand risks of the procedure and risks of surgery in general.
Obviously none of it is compulsory and it's all a balance of what you want to risk for a possible life improvement.
Yea, no surgery for non life threatening stuff for me.
Had a test yesterday and he put you in a sound proof booth with headphones and a press button.
He fitted me up with a pair and told me to take a 10min walk out into Shrewsbury main high steet - Big mistake - I was out for an hour as the crumpet was so disgustingly underdress'd I couldn't take my eyes off it - No idea what sound was like.
Seriously it was a revelation -= so so much better than my old ones.
He then cleaned wax from my lugholes and showed me his list and one he had used - in the end I picked the top notch one with all the gismo's.
I am a babyboomer pensioner bringing in £10k a month
so it was back pocket change.
get them on Friday and a bit of research says they are Phonak or another Swiss maker. I will ask the question Friday - whether he will tell me is another matter.
He fitted me up with a pair and told me to take a 10min walk out into Shrewsbury main high steet - Big mistake - I was out for an hour as the crumpet was so disgustingly underdress'd I couldn't take my eyes off it - No idea what sound was like.
Seriously it was a revelation -= so so much better than my old ones.
He then cleaned wax from my lugholes and showed me his list and one he had used - in the end I picked the top notch one with all the gismo's.
I am a babyboomer pensioner bringing in £10k a month
so it was back pocket change.get them on Friday and a bit of research says they are Phonak or another Swiss maker. I will ask the question Friday - whether he will tell me is another matter.
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There is a written advert why you don’t go to specsavers for hearing aidsHad a test yesterday and he put you in a sound proof booth with headphones and a press button.
He fitted me up with a pair and told me to take a 10min walk out into Shrewsbury main high steet - Big mistake - I was out for an hour as the crumpet was so disgustingly underdress'd I couldn't take my eyes off it - No idea what sound was like.
Seriously it was a revelation -= so so much better than my old ones.
He then cleaned wax from my lugholes and showed me his list and one he had used - in the end I picked the top notch one with all the gismo's.
I am a babyboomer pensioner bringing in £10k a month
get them on Friday and a bit of research says they are Phonak or another Swiss maker. I will ask the question Friday - whether he will tell me is another matter.
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£10k a month PENSION????
WHHHHAAAAAAYYTYYYYTTTTT????
GIBE ME HALF!
WHHHHAAAAAAYYTYYYYTTTTT????
GIBE ME HALF!
Half !!!!!
No chance -how will I pay the butler/maid/gardener and I need my 30yr old Whiskey.
No chance -how will I pay the butler/maid/gardener and I need my 30yr old Whiskey.
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Half !!!!!
No chance -how will I pay the butler/maid/gardener and I need my 30yr old Whiskey.
Third?
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Trying to get my wife to get something like this.she has nhs ones but doesn't use them as there to big and according to her tuned badly?!?!
He is absolutely spot on with the whole 'just because it doesn't bother you doesn't mean you aren't impacting other people'
In the case of my stubborn wife I'm often fed up with having to repeat myself and feeling like talking to her is an unnecessary chore.
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I need everything repeating constantly but usually never talk to people so don't care.
Silence is golden. Ignore all the screaming crying humans that keep begging for my attention.
Gonna backfire though if I drop my wallet or keys and someone's trying to be helpful and not just fishing for attention.
Today was the end of a 2.5 month trial and error.
My first set of aids were Specsavers own - top of range and they were so so much better than NHS but after wearing them for a few weeks it became obvious they were flawed -BT dropping out after an hour or so-then they reverted back to auto setting so all in all crap.
So went back under the 100 day return and he had a pair of Phonak aids on charger for me so he set them up and off I went.
Now we were taking - BT is solid -stays on the setting -Make and recieve phone calls great - It's just like having caller sat next to you and you don't even have to shout - Brilliant.
Hearing people around you talking is going to always be hit and miss -I set then up for wifes voice and I could hear her but I think because I could she has reverted to TV speak - Mumbling. - So I point two fingers at her eyes then to mine and say look at me.
The main thing is I don't even know I am wearing them - The NHS ones were so uncomfortable I never put left ear one in.
So now £2.4k worse off - But is it worth it - Yes it is even just for the phone calls - I don't have to hold that brick of a PoCo X3 to my earole.
I have had my Focus for 11 years and first thing I said to salesman was can you turn up the sound if the indicators - No he said - Well now I can hear them but they have also lowered the road noise and car sounds quite good now rather than a tin half full of nuts.
My first set of aids were Specsavers own - top of range and they were so so much better than NHS but after wearing them for a few weeks it became obvious they were flawed -BT dropping out after an hour or so-then they reverted back to auto setting so all in all crap.
So went back under the 100 day return and he had a pair of Phonak aids on charger for me so he set them up and off I went.
Now we were taking - BT is solid -stays on the setting -Make and recieve phone calls great - It's just like having caller sat next to you and you don't even have to shout - Brilliant.
Hearing people around you talking is going to always be hit and miss -I set then up for wifes voice and I could hear her but I think because I could she has reverted to TV speak - Mumbling. - So I point two fingers at her eyes then to mine and say look at me.
The main thing is I don't even know I am wearing them - The NHS ones were so uncomfortable I never put left ear one in.
So now £2.4k worse off - But is it worth it - Yes it is even just for the phone calls - I don't have to hold that brick of a PoCo X3 to my earole.
I have had my Focus for 11 years and first thing I said to salesman was can you turn up the sound if the indicators - No he said - Well now I can hear them but they have also lowered the road noise and car sounds quite good now rather than a tin half full of nuts.
> Are you using a Phonak app to configure them via your phone ?
Relation has Resound brand from Specsavers - apparently they are now stopping using Resound, but he doesn't have a smartphone to utilise their app
> REM I've been reading up on REM which apparently specsavers don't offer, where they do some tests with microphones in your ear - did you have any opinion on this kind of test ?
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> Specsavers have really offered him a mediocre service, where they have sometimes improperly configured them, so he has come away with a worse sound, and being hard of hearing it is difficult to know whether your ears have changed, or, they made a mistake, plus they have had to be sent away for fixes where the local support couldn't determine what the hardware/software failure was.
If I had access to their software you could check whether his presecreption is correctly coded.
Yes I have the app and today dialled in wifes screech - also TV and Cafe.
To be honest I have no idea what he did - I sat in a sound proof booth with headphones on and he sent all sorts of sound through where I had to press a button if I heard them.
I think now the tests are a bit more tech than they used to be -- 10 yrs ago with the NHS ones they did put mic's on my shoulders and where ever - What he did was use the hearing aid in some way to prog them - He could even test for feed back while in my ear.
There is a great deal of difference between Specsavers aids and Phonak one but only a few hundred quid difference.
Making phone calls is great - so much clearer than pressing phone to your ear.
Perhaps your relation could get a cheap smart phone just for the hearing aids and use it like a remote like tv.
To be honest I have no idea what he did - I sat in a sound proof booth with headphones on and he sent all sorts of sound through where I had to press a button if I heard them.
I think now the tests are a bit more tech than they used to be -- 10 yrs ago with the NHS ones they did put mic's on my shoulders and where ever - What he did was use the hearing aid in some way to prog them - He could even test for feed back while in my ear.
There is a great deal of difference between Specsavers aids and Phonak one but only a few hundred quid difference.
Making phone calls is great - so much clearer than pressing phone to your ear.
Perhaps your relation could get a cheap smart phone just for the hearing aids and use it like a remote like tv.
It seems that - for our NHS trust at least - they are trying to shove their patients out to the private sector.
Mum has just been told that she can't have check-ups or hearing tests at the hospital any more - she has to go to Specsavers. And it was Specsavers that just issued her with new hearing aids - bloody useless. The TV is now twice as loud as before and she can't hear me unless I actually shout at her.
Suffice to say I'm not impressed and would not recommend Specsavers for hearing aids based on this (sample size=1 of course).
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Independent hearing aid stores are the only places people should be going to otherwise you get ripped off. Specsavers and the like are only interested in opening your wallet
Specsavers have a national contract in this respect ? - leastways that diversion from nhs is true in Norfolk,
in Cambridgeshire neighbours told me you can use Boots too, and prefer them to 'Speccies'
hearing is like eye tests.
Specsavers nonetheless (like nhs) negotiate bulk purchase economies of scale, but,
after reading about real ear measurement, availible elsewhere, I am suspicious about their prescription measurement expertise
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This is just not grounded in reality at all.
I would also suggest that many independents are far more prioritised around cash flow and sales for obvious operating scale reasons. This doesn't mean they aren't focused on patient care though
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Carry on going to Specsavers and Boots then .... If you read the reviews and experiences of people and then compare them to any good indie the general service is far superior and advice given even more so. The aftercare long term is so superior, surely it can't even be up for debate