Search results for query: hearing aids

I asked because many people here use Widex, a brand often recommended by audiologists for tinnitus. However, I have not found it helpful and am looking for a better option. Glad to hear that Miracle Ear works well for you.

I've been trialing hearing aids the past week and a bit. I'm really unsure if they're working or not. I've been wearing them each day and they have improved my hearing at the higher frequencies a little, but the T is still roaring. Last Saturday I tried going the day without wearing them, and I...

...in-canal hearing aid would do the dual purpose trick of: Acting as a partial plug to reduce sharp sounds that triggers distortions, while amplifying environmental sounds to mask the ringing? I have no experience with hearing aids, so please let me know if this makes sense with current...

Do any hearing aids go above 8 kHz and would they help me drown out a lot of my tinnitus if my hearing loss is in the 9-14 kHz range? My hearing is perfect up to 8 kHz. I’m getting an extended audiogram soon and I’m wondering what my options are. If there is hearing loss, do the hearing aids...

@LovableGamer, about 25% of patients have hearing loss primarily caused by the degradation of auditory nerve fibers. As I understand it, this is mainly age-related. Until human studies are complete, the details—whether it works, whether it is safe—remain unknown.

I made this thread to ask the question if hearing aids reduce tinnitus because I'm subscribed to the idea that reversing hearing loss in anyway should reduce tinnitus. I have seen several threads where many people congratulate hearing aids on reducing the volume of their tinnitus. However there...

...losing her ability to enjoy television and conversations with family and friends. She is currently using Sonic Radiant miniRITE 60 T R hearing aids. They seem to not be working properly. We have had her go to a local hearing specialist at a branch of Hearing Life and additionally, she has...

...my anxiety without the noted side effects of Amitripyline. Second prong aside from best meds to reduce my anxiety is with respect to hearing aids. I am now 64 y.o. and no question I have some level of high frequency hearing loss but overall I have functioned pretty well without hearing...

Hi all, I started singing with the band at my church this past January. I have a moderate hearing loss and tinnitus and wear hearing aids. This has been the first time I've sung with electric guitars, drums and general amplification. A couple weeks ago, I noticed that I was hearing some tinnitus...

My father has severe hearing loss and finally decided to get hearing aids a few months back. The audiologist told him that in the first few weeks/days, many things will sound painful because his brain is not used to processing noise that loud anymore. He also claimed that his brain would adapt...

...joke! 2003 was a long time ago, and your hearing may have worsened since then. When was the last time you had an audiogram or had your hearing aids adjusted? Hearing aid technology is constantly evolving. It might be worth giving them another try, even though they didn’t work out the first time.

What is life like for you? Is it hard to go out, explain the hearing aids to friends/people who cross paths with you? Do you still go out to bars or clubs?

...- I am a 21 year old guy. My hearing has never been 100% since birth, but good enough to get by in daily situations without the use of hearing aids (doctors allowed me to ditch hearing aids at the age of around 4 or 5). Anyway, 4 years ago, I have gotten moderate tinnitus and, to a lesser...

Rereading my old posts from years ago made me shed a tear. After losing my hearing aids a lot of old fears and memories came back. I almost forgot how hopeless and dark it used to be. I don't think people understand how traumatic going through something like this can be. Wishing everyone else on...

What do you think about the fact that many tinnitus clinics sell hearing aids to almost every patient if there is even the slightest sign of (age-appropriate?) hearing loss?

...I had my baby with me and since it was babbling all the time, I was very distracted during the hearing test. The newly adjusted hearing aids were so loud, I did all things very carefully and once I heard church bells it really hurt. I went to the hearing aid acoustician again today and it...

...sitting in a cubicle at work and struggling to fall asleep at night made it increasingly difficult to cope. In 2003, I was able to get hearing aids from the VA, and they helped mask the tinnitus during the day. However, when I took them out at night, my ears were so irritated by the...

I first realised that I had tinnitus in July 2022 around the time I visited our local audiology clinic where I was fitted with two hearing aids which were badly needed for moderate hearing loss. It was probably a coincidence that my tinnitus began at the time I started using the hearing aids...

Someone needs hearing aids? I own a pair of hearing aids open fitting Re-Sound Alera VO961 / DW wireless flesh-colored. Are not helpful in tinnitus (in my opinion) and do not possess the masking option. Only helps you feel better if you have significant hearing loss. Used only for 6 months...

3 weeks with hearing aids from Dr Darrow and no change.

Hi all, I just have a question. I have hearing aids (zero amplification, I have no hearing loss) that play white noise. It's better than living with tinnitus but it's also highly irritating and the volume needs to be up fairly high making it quite unpleasurable. Rain sound on the other hand is...

I was wondering if anyone has had the opportunity to try these new EARLENS hearing aids? They are supposed to increase and target the high-pitch hearing loss typically associated with tinnitus. It's not a masker. It's a hearing aid that fits on your eardrum much like a contact lens fits on...

...your brain something else to focus on. This can encourage you to pay less attention to your tinnitus. If you have any hearing loss, hearing aids with built-in masking sounds might help. Hearing aids are set using a computer to match your specific hearing frequencies. They do not just amplify...

Do you experience any hyperacusis or sound sensitivity?

...hear ambient noise. It'll be like the impacted frequencies are in a soundproof room. I've made a flowchart to get the point across. Hearing aids could also be effective with sensorineural hearing loss. So why aren't people without tinnitus being given hearing aids when they have hearing...

How did your appointment with Dr. Maison go?

Hello, I reecntly tried hearing aids from my friend just for couriosity what is the sound perception through them (I have pretty good hearing just T is what bothers me). What I noticed in a silent room the hearing aids themselves produce some delicate hum similar to the white noise maskers I...

My hearing loss is mild at 4 kHz - 7 kHz, touching 40/45 dB (left/right) at 8 kHz. US insurance (two different insurers) never gave me any pushback on paying for my hearing aids. They don’t do a thing for my tinnitus, but they make for an awesome set of Bluetooth headphones.

Hey all, I have tinnitus as well as moderate to moderately severe hearing loss and I wear hearing aids. On job applications there are questions about disabilities, such as hard of hearing. I was wondering how do you answer those questions? While I don’t consider tinnitus to be disabling for...

I have used Widex with Zen Hearing aids for two weeks now from my audiologist. You have 30 days to try them. I have not seen any improvement yet. Anybody in this forum have any experience with these. Let me know if anybody has used these.

Good morning! I would like to tap your collective wisdom today about ear pressure and hearing aids. I have bilateral hearing loss. I have tinnitus, not normally bothersome (though all this testing is making me aware of it). For about 1 1/2 years (see my introductory thread) I've had...

...here with a long-term tinnitus history. I am profoundly deaf, but I am able to hear well enough to get along with the more powerful hearing aids. Hearing aids also are what have enabled me to live with tinnitus. Until now. I need new hearing aids and so far have tried two...

Do you wear hearing aids? If you want to eleborate, you may comment below. Also, if you really like or really dislike these polls, let me know.

...left ear that has tinnitus. They want to first start CBT to manage my tinnitus. And if that won't help me enough they want to give me hearing aids. Do hearing aids help me even if I have tinnitus that reacts to some sounds? Are there people on here that use hearing aids even with tinnitus...

...was that I had damaged my ears and could not hear high pitched frequencies anymore [can't remember the kHz]. They also gave me these hearing aids / maskers, that play a pitch that cancels out the tinnitus. They also said that I had a little wax in my right ear. Anyway I wore the aids in my...

My ENT seemed eager to sell me hearing aids and told me I had moderate to significant hearing loss. But I do not have any trouble hearing anything, so how can that be?! I was there to discuss my escalating tinnitus, so I was very skeptical about his recommendation. However, after reading some...

...scared. Hearing test shows moderate to high frequency loss, lower tones fine. I was hoping to be given maskers but no, small hearing aids that MIGHT help. Such a lovely lady but once again seems like a dead end. Sound proof room seems to have made T go mad and a new noise to join the others...

An online question would be good. I would add: D) What was your hearing loss before using hearing aids? I think it has to be at least moderate to severe for the hearing aids to help.

...me with what now sounds like 3000 chirps that blend together and it’s one fluctuating buzz. I know that it causes hearing loss so I got hearing aids. I’m told to wear them all day. But now my ears are hyper sensitive and the buzzing is louder. If I rest in a quiet room it’s very annoying...

...hell. I can totally mask the T with them. But I keep the volumn low enough to here the T so I can eventually get used to it without the hearing aids. When I sleep at night I use a white noise machine and wear my right aid only. I can here the noise maker and sleep all night. I also...

Three years ago, I bought a pair of Phonak P50 Audeo hearing aids because I have moderate to severe hearing loss in both ears. They have significantly reduced the ringing in my ears. It's important to use both hearing aids together to see if they work for you—using just one won't make a...

Sorry, I was referring to using hearing aids as hearing aids, not as earphones. That's probably fine as long as the volume is low enough.

Had 4 months of very mild H, to the point I had forgotten how much it takes out of you. Now I'm back to... everything hurts. Anyone have any strategies for success, aside from hearing aids? They make my ears worse.

...I was sent for another hearing test and was asked if I wanted to try hearing aid? I tried them and they did the job, for a while. The hearing aids helped especially knowing they were there for when I woke up. If I woke up and my tinnitus was there, then it was a bad day. After a while, when...

...audiologist actually got me in the same day. Which helped. How ever after some treatments for possible viral infection in my ear. We still don’t know the cause. I have come to the conclusion that I will need hearing aids. Being deaf doesn’t scare me. But the ringing is going to drive me crazy.

...me something. I don't have a perfect hearing, not deafness but not optimal for my twenty years. So as I know that one day i will wear hearing aids, i would like to ask you how does it feels to have an hearing aid? Is it comfortable, is it good for restaurants, cinema, how do you cope with...

Hi all What a night ,lost my hearing aids (now found) usually wear them in bed to knock some of the T out. Boy oh boy id forgotten how loud my ears can get.Telling you ten out of ten noise ,I honestly do not know how i would cope without the aids.it took me back to 2010 when an ear infection...

...helpful. If that’s the case, it could be beneficial to have your ENT read the study and direct an audiologist to set your programmable hearing aids or maskers to the relevant sound band, either white noise, which includes all audible frequencies, or another band like blue or violet noise, as...

Hearing aids are not going so well so far… no relief at all .. maybe need to give it more time

Has anybody considered hearing aids path to get some relief ? We know that hearing aids can help only if we have have hearing loss in human hearing range upto maybe 6-7khz but I read that we now have high frequency loss hearing aids available in the market too? Why isn't there much buzz about...

...of these events could have caused my tinnitus as well. Anyway, where is the success you ask? Well, growing up I never wore my regular hearing aids much, because I hated how much they amplify the sounds of everything. Well, I popped them in last week, and I don't hear my tinnitus at all when...

...ears are screaming now. I know it is from hearings loss from construction... My question is this... Should I go back on Zoloft which worked but made me emotionally numb... or try hearing aids which feed back my tinnitus ...tricking my brain into thinking my ears are fine... Feedback appreciated!

...noise of the desired pitch through the aid (no worries if this is a stupid idea). Alternatively, is there any way users can access the computer software needed to program the pitch of their noisers/maskers/hearing aids? (I appreciate this is unlikely). Many thanks for any thoughts you have :)

You need to pick the hearing aids that meet your goals, so what works for one person may not work for you. For me, it was important to address my type of hearing loss, so I needed hearing aids that could reproduce high frequencies well. There aren't many of them, so after comparing them with...

I went to the hearing aid specialist the other day and he programmed hearing aids for me. However, he had a new piece of equipment this time which had wires with little microphones on them. He put them in my ear to measure the true amplification that my hearing aids were giving instead of only...

Audiologists are crooks when you have hyperacusis, tinnitus, and visual snow.

So, after all my problems, someone else in my family with hearing issues decided to get hearing aids. Well, I borrowed the hearing aids. The ringing is semi the same, but I can hear better in that ear. It's not perfect. Also, it's like my brain is readjusting to hearing. Like I feel semi like...