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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 2934560" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>The new designs make them invisible.</p><p>Some are completely inside the ear canal, never to be seen from the outside, but they lack features to enhance certain types of hearing loss.</p><p></p><p>There are stages of hearing aids.</p><p>The first stage is embarrassment that you need them. You get cheap ones, and never wear them outside of the house. You embarrass yourself saying "huh" all the time.</p><p>Second stage is that you wear them outside of the house, and find out they don't work as advertised because you chose the ones that your vanity told you to buy so nobody could see them.</p><p>Third stage is that you buy them that actually work. Work meaning they help improve the hearing experience.</p><p>When you have hearing loss, there is no hearing aid on the market no matter what the cost that will bring your hearing back to normal levels. You will learn to lip read, you will be embarrassed by speech comprehension issues when you can't understand the person at the fast food drive in, and your peers will laugh when you repeat what you think they said and not what they actually said.</p><p>Hearing loss is not a fun issue.</p><p>Protect it at all costs.</p><p>Take it from one that is living the life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 2934560, member: 5412"] The new designs make them invisible. Some are completely inside the ear canal, never to be seen from the outside, but they lack features to enhance certain types of hearing loss. There are stages of hearing aids. The first stage is embarrassment that you need them. You get cheap ones, and never wear them outside of the house. You embarrass yourself saying "huh" all the time. Second stage is that you wear them outside of the house, and find out they don't work as advertised because you chose the ones that your vanity told you to buy so nobody could see them. Third stage is that you buy them that actually work. Work meaning they help improve the hearing experience. When you have hearing loss, there is no hearing aid on the market no matter what the cost that will bring your hearing back to normal levels. You will learn to lip read, you will be embarrassed by speech comprehension issues when you can't understand the person at the fast food drive in, and your peers will laugh when you repeat what you think they said and not what they actually said. Hearing loss is not a fun issue. Protect it at all costs. Take it from one that is living the life. [/QUOTE]
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