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Originally Posted by barb1191
Hubby finally gave in to my consistent nagging about his hearing loss when I constantly was repeating EVERYTHING.
Lesson we learned: Hub Bill first went to a store selling a certain brand hearing aid and was diagnosed that he needs the aid and without further adieu they really pressed on to purchase.
I felt Bill should really see an audiologist before committing to a particular store brand. He did so and was found to have a more serious problem of a benign growth that created some of the hearing loss. Minor surgery involved. Before any fitting for a hearing aid, the minor surgery was necessary.
Presently we're waiting for the health insurer to give us the go-ahead and then possibly the hardware will be covered as well.
Going to a specialist rather than a store where a technician will perform the testing is not the way to go. Maybe some have hit it lucky and been successful with this but thank goodness we chose to go the route of the specialist. .....barb
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You are so right as usual Barb. My father had an acoustic neuroma, a benign tumor that affected his hearing and since it could be congenital, I went to an audiologist who sent me for that test first. I didn't have it, but learned that I felt better finding a good audiologist and progressing from there. I just hate to be pressured and they are not the same as glasses. You can't tell immediately if you are hearing better as you can tell immediately if you are seeing better. There are parts of the hearing aid business that I feel is very much a pseudo science. You have to pick good people, but how do you know?
I will be looking for a good place here so this is a valuable thread for a lot of us.