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kann said:
I'm officially crossing that last bridge I've been avoiding, and joining the Old Man Club. Take care of your hearing, kids. Once it's gone, it's gone...

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Welcome aboard! Err... Sucks about your hearing. Loud music and drilling rigs took care of mine, I can stand outside in the dead of winter and it sounds like swarms of cicadas in the trees. So far past tinnitus. But I didn't get hearing aids, I just got a louder stereo and pipe the TV through that!
 
ChuckJr said:
Welcome aboard! Err... Sucks about your hearing. Loud music and drilling rigs took care of mine, I can stand outside in the dead of winter and it sounds like swarms of cicadas in the trees. So far past tinnitus. But I didn't get hearing aids, I just got a louder stereo and pipe the TV through that!
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The tinnitus is maddening -- I feel like a character that Edgar Allen Poe would have written about. I don't even attempt watching TV or anything with the family anymore; it's just too frustrating and, quite frankly, boring. The main driver, though, is my family pretty much demanding it at this point. I know that the clarity is gone permanently (it's like listening to the teacher from Peanuts when people talk to me), but if I get even a 50% increase/relief from these things, I'll consider it a win.
 
kann said:
I'm officially crossing that last bridge I've been avoiding, and joining the Old Man Club. Take care of your hearing, kids. Once it's gone, it's gone...

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The VA really pushed hearing aids on me but I hate them. They were just so unrealistic and didnt help where I needed the help. I felt bad because they are $5K but the VA wont take them back so if you want them, they are yours.
 
CigarStone said:
The VA really pushed hearing aids on me but I hate them. They were just so unrealistic and didnt help where I needed the help. I felt bad because they are $5K but the VA wont take them back so if you want them, they are yours.
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Thanks, I appreciate the offer. We'll see how these work out. Technology has improved a lot since the end of The Great War when you mustered out and the Veteran's Administration got you your brass ear trumpets. The audiologist explained things about my (lack of) hearing and answered all of my questions sufficiently, and then some. He was very up front about what I should and should not expect as far as auditory improvement goes. I'm going through a government program for overseas retirees, and not the VA right now. I'd have to make several unfunded trips to Landstuhl hospital to go through the VA, and they said it would take months just to get me in. So, typical VA care... I'll pay a bit out of pocket (and maybe get some of it reimbursed, but not holding my breath with TriCare). They are costing me just shy of $1K, but that's still 60% less than I'd pay "on the market".
 
kann said:
The tinnitus is maddening -- I feel like a character that Edgar Allen Poe would have written about. I don't even attempt watching TV or anything with the family anymore; it's just too frustrating and, quite frankly, boring. The main driver, though, is my family pretty much demanding it at this point. I know that the clarity is gone permanently (it's like listening to the teacher from Peanuts when people talk to me), but if I get even a 50% increase/relief from these things, I'll consider it a win.
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Really good heading aids can help, ask me I have over 50% loss. My aids cost $2800 BUT DO A GREAT JOB.
 
kann said:
Thanks, I appreciate the offer. We'll see how these work out. Technology has improved a lot since the end of The Great War when you mustered out and the Veteran's Administration got you your brass ear trumpets. The audiologist explained things about my (lack of) hearing and answered all of my questions sufficiently, and then some. He was very up front about what I should and should not expect as far as auditory improvement goes. I'm going through a government program for overseas retirees, and not the VA right now. I'd have to make several unfunded trips to Landstuhl hospital to go through the VA, and they said it would take months just to get me in. So, typical VA care... I'll pay a bit out of pocket (and maybe get some of it reimbursed, but not holding my breath with TriCare). They are costing me just shy of $1K, but that's still 60% less than I'd pay "on the market".
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Keep me posted. Mine are adjusted on line by a specialist and are unubstusive. I struggled with get the sounds that I cant hear to be present without causing other sounds to be loud or wrong.

Mine are made by Phonak, are just a few months old, I will check the model when I get home, like I said, if you want them, they are yours.
 
I was lied to, back in the day, by a MiracleEar salesman. He told me then(early 90’s) his product would block out the tinnitus!! LIAR!!!

Even today the respected ones admit that’s not possible. Some are better than others at muting a bit, but it ain’t happening.

My other issue was the “barrel” effect. It sounds like yer talking in a barrel. To get an idea, put yer fingers in yer ears and talk. Yup, not good. I was always worried I’d miss something while testifying in court, so I scrapped em.

Good luck, Nick. I know good ones are out there, ya just gotta find em.

Floyd T
 
I’m sure one day, I’m going to need them. I know I have some tinnitus, but my brain does a pretty good job (at least right now) of blocking it out or ignoring it.

My dad who just turned 85 needs them pretty badly. He has tried some from an ear doctor, and those were good but he is too cheap to spend the money on them. My mom bought him some off some kind of Facebook thing she got, not sure if she got her money back or not, I think those were 1k and terrible…but she just did it, never asked anyone.

He keeps talking about going to the va because he thinks he can get them there more inexpensively, but at 85, he is now always too busy to make the appointment, cant get through to anyone there, can’t understand them when he does…

I think it’s easier for him to ignore things that bother him when he can’t hear them. Lol. But when he can’t hear things, it really bothers him..catch 22 right?

When he did have the good ones he was much easier to talk to, then politics come up and I’m looking for a tinnitus flare up at that point myself! Haha
 
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