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Originally Posted by oldtimes
My hearing loss is profound enough that without hearing aids and sometimes even with them I have trouble following a conversation. OTC aids would not help at all. At some point you need high quality hearing aids adjusted by a good audiologist for the range of sound missing. Just making things louder still just sounds like wah wah wah wah. I find people who do not have hearing loss don’t really understand.
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I can understand more sophisticated treatment for hearing loss but I find there are people who don't like hearing aids. A very good friend had profound hearing loss since childhood. When this friend received excellent hearing aids for free, (insurance covered them), they very seldom used them at that point where they could hear properly. For the first time they could hear footsteps of someone walking behind them and actual conversation. The friend couldn't stand it and turned them way down. It was difficult to converse without shouting the whole conversation which is a turnoff to the hearing friends who don't want the conversation shared with everyone else. I also have a family member who takes his hearing aids out when going out if there is a crowd or loud music, he doesn't want to deal with the noise either.