Has Anyone Gone the Route of Regular Hearing Aids? As Opposed to Hearing Aids with Masking Feature

[Chris Lewis]

Has anyone with hearing loss and tinnitus go the route of using just a hearing aid as opposed to a dual hearing aid that helps you hear better and to also mask the tinnitus ringing?

 

[billie48]

I have tried hearing aid as I have hearing loss in the high frequency but it didn't help my T. So I returned the aids. I am sure more people can respond to your questions. You can also try search on 'hearing aid' as there are many prior discussions on that.

 

[MBH]

I'm also ordering hearing aids with white noise masker from a private ear care due to the Ent hearing aid specialist I went told me my T was not loud enough. I decided my own advocate I have little hearing loss but I'm going for the masker for each ear which I tried they have different prices. I'm also still work on habituate

 

[Kolisar]

I am considering them as my hearing is declining and I have difficulty understand conversations. I will not be trying masking as it does not seem to work of me. I have tried many masking sounds, and for me that have all be unsuccessful and just add extra noise to the world that I have to combat to understand what people are saying.

I know that many people have had great success with masking, so I would suggest trying the masking aids first as they could provide the relief you are seeking.

 

[JasonP]

Has anyone with hearing loss and tinnitus go the route of using just a hearing aid as opposed to a dual hearing aid that helps you hear better and to also mask the tinnitus ringing?

I have and they helped me. The masker helped me also. It doesn't take away the ringing but it does lessen some of it.

 

[RODRIGO]

I have a slight acoustic trauma, 35 db at 4000 Hz, in the right ear. The rest of the frequencies in both ears are between -15 and 0 db, I am 49 years old and I have tinnitus for 4 years. A month ago I started TSS which is a variant of TRT. I have very acute bilateral tinnitus and 24 hours. For therapy I use all Phonak headphones with white noise.I have a program that amplifies the high frequencies, which I also use to stimulate the right ear at that frequency where I have a little loss. I also have white noise + 6 decibels above the volume of my tinnitus. I use white noise and amplification indistinctly. My experience is that when I use only amplification the tinnitus becomes smaller, and I forgot it more easily.With the white noise, if I put it to a sufficient level the tinnitus would be masked. To me personally with the amplification of acute is sufficient, the tinnitus dissipates quickly. This makes me think that hearing recovery does help diminish the perception of tinnitus. I think it helps me get used to tinnitus. Every time I think less about tinnitus, and I only have a month.I think it's a good therapy though expensive. This is my experience

 

[Chris Lewis]

Thank you all. Please keep the comments coming. Your experiences really help. I am leaning towards getting a simple hearing aid without the tinnitus masking features. Cost wise, here in the U.S., I would be paying at least $1,000 more for the "bells and whistles" that include tinnitus masking. I believe I can achieve that by simply downloading white/brown/pink noise to my music device, and use the hearing aid for amplification.

For those who have received recommendations from their ENT doc for a certain type of hearing aid... did you feel they were hard-selling you? I sort of did.

Again, thanks all!

 

[MeBeSurfer]

I think my hearing aids are a life saver! They completely remove the ringing. If its 100% silent, I can hear a very very faint air hissing, but it doesn't bother me. I go back to a 6/10 loud high pitch ringing once I take them out. I LOVE wearing my hearing aids now, whereas before T, I was not such a fan.

 

[glynis]

Hearing aids really help me.
I do have a masker setting but hardly use that.
Love glynis

 

[Billthegardener]

Just wearing the hearing aids help if you are at 2 to 4 out of 10. They make everthing else louder. Maybe at 5 the white noise might help some. At 6 here ussually and I have to stream music, just under people's voice level. At 7 or 8 out of 10 I have to have it louder and must pay attention to see if anyone is talking to me. At that level too long trying to block it makes me anxious. Been at 9 a few times early on, pretty helpless there. Had t for about 2.5 years now. The masking feature has been very helpful, syncs to my phone via clip. That's how I get the sounds