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Originally Posted by KayakerNC
If the provider doesn't allow a "test-drive" on the HA's they recommend based on your audiogram, take your audiogram and go somewhere else.  |
Evidently I didn't explain myself clearly and perhaps am picking nits.
Yes, I was able to approve my hearing aids before buying them. The point I was trying to make was that the process for correcting hearing loss doesn't seem as objective as with glasses. With glasses, I can see what my vision will be with the new prescription before I even order them and the new glasses can be objectively confirmed to prove they are as ordered. With hearing aids, I don't think there is any way to be retested while wearing the new hearing aids to confirm that they have been properly programmed. About all that can be done is to see if they 'seem' to be OK. I could be wrong about this.
One other factor in the comparison of glasses to hearing aids...
Hearing aids, while expensive, can be reprogrammed again and again, to compensate for changing hearing. whereas glasses cannot be changed to compensate for changing vision.