hearing aids/tinnitus

eyemamom
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:38:21 +0000

I’ve talked about this here before but the thread is kind of old. My husband’s tinnitus has gotten worse and therefore his hearing is worse. He never liked his old hearing aid. He went last week to an audiologist and he’s getting new hearing aids. It makes me feel like a terrible person when I get a little irritated at how much he misses out on conversations or how much I have to repeat myself. Of course I know it’s worse for him. A famous personality said that hearing loss is the only disability where other people get mad at you.

It looks like they’ve made big strides in the past few years, especially for people with tinnitus. One thing he is to start is to listen to jungle music while he sleeps. Apparently these new things re train the brain to tune out the ringing. His new hearing aid can link up to his phone, so he can hear it ringing, and the other thing I can’t wait for, is I will have a microphone of sorts so if I’m in another room I can talk to him and he’ll be able to hear me. I could lay dying screaming in the room next to him and he wouldn’t hear me. Apparently the range he can’t hear as well is women and children. So when I have a meeting with him with another woman his brain literally shuts down the conversation. I would get so irritated when he wouldn’t know what I was talking about later when referring to the middle of the conversation. Insurance covers a lot of it, but it’s still a hefty bill. From what I understand the Costco hearing aids just amplify, that’s not his issue.