Do i really need hearing aid?

Marcin Z

Hi. I got my tests done in hiding hearing and spec savers. Both results were similar. I'm 35 and have hearing deficiency on both ears. In real eviroment its not so bad as I used to live with it, I think I'm hearing impairment since I was a child. I struggle to understand people in group (face to face its ok) and my telly is always loud -my wife hates me for that :-)
The only problem is the cost of hearing aid. After a prsi grant I still have to pay €1600. Do I really need this now ? I dont see many people in my age wearing those. Down below I'm posting a link to audiological evaluation.
When did you buy yours? At what stage? Is the hearing aid gonna make significant improvement in my case? Is it worth it?

looksee

My hearing suddenly deteriorated after I had an ear infection a few years ago. I was not even slightly impressed by the ENT specialist who said I had no hearing loss, it was obvious to me that I had. I got a hearing aid and it takes a while for you to get used to it but the difference is significant.

Now however I have to look at getting a hearing aid for the other ear, and I am very reluctant to have aids in both ears (I feel I will be cutting myself off, somehow, which is totally irrational). Currently with my existing aid I find that I have difficulty hearing people talking sometimes, and without it I simply cannot hear the doorbell, and can only hear the phone if I am near enough to hear the actual ring, there is a back-up (separate) ring that I cannot hear at all.

Yes, they are expensive but only you can decide if it will be worth while to you. I can't read your chart, but it does look as though you can hear fairly normally at some pitches, and very poorly at others - like me with my inability to hear high pitched ring tones. If you are not absolutely sure at the moment, get some other opinions. Though I can promise you that you are now going to be damned by HH ringing, writing and otherwise contacting you till you tell them clearly and succinctly to leave you alone

cobham

I suffered hearing loss in one ear after a certain plane trip in 1998. Years later I decided maybe try a hearing aid and mentioned to GP to recommend a place. But I was told I needed to be checked out by ENT consultant especially in case of sudden and one sided hearing loss. A thorough investigation involving CT and MRI resulted in two surgeries for grommuts which both failed after about 18ths. Another surgery was proposed but I had had enough and opted for hearing aid.

I was prompted to do something after a minor incident in car where I was unable to discern direction of an approaching ambulance as I was about to enter a main road. One sided hearing means I cannot locate sounds. I worried also about crossing a road as a pedestrian. An older relative was struggling to use new hearing aids and I thought I could help if I was a user myself.

I was also prompted by an older classmate in a group who advised not to leave it too late to get a hearing aid as could be fiddley to use and needed bit of settling down. I was impressed when she showed me hearing aids in both ears and I had never noticed despite a year of sitting alongside her.

I got a discount from Specsavers as only required one device. I submitted cost against tax as medical expense and that helped also. I get free batteries and annual hearing check up and they will change the filter whenever I ask.

Two years on now and very happy. I will always use for any group of people even meeting a friend in a busy cafe and it comes out to help find the a phone lost somewhere in house. I find talking to someone with background music/tv difficult as cannot isolate the voice of the person speaking to me.