ANA Discussion Forum
General Category => Hearing Issues => Topic started by: Heather Craig on October 03, 2011, 01:41:45 pm
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Can anyone recommend a good hearing aid and some price ideas? I don't wanna get my hopes up and have to make a decision of weather I'm gonna send my son to college or be able to hear... lol! any input is appreciated! Thanks in advance! ;D
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Are you ssd?
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Heather .....
Between my first and second surgeries, when I still had about 20% of my hearing, but with 100% speech discrimination, I wore two different types of hearing aids. The first one (MicroTech 7 Curve) was a total waste of my money. The second one (Widex Mind) was very efficient and comfortable.
How much hearing do you still have? If you are totally deaf, a hearing aid is useless, of course ..... unless you go to the bone-anchored hearing devices.
Clarice
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transear was around 2500.00----it was useless
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I have hearing aids on both ears. They are Unitron and the model is"yu". They work very well be are a bit pricey at $2500 each. But after I bought them I found information that there are many hearing aids they produce the same results and are a lot less expensive.
TJ
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My Transear (for ssd) was about $2700.00 and I am happy with it.
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i have a phonak nathos micro. i am afraid i have no idea of cost, as i am in uk and it is an nhs aid. phonak is a well respected make (says my teacher-of-the-deaf sister). it is sold as phonak versata. it has an open fitting which is very comfy, and is quite discreet. i have beige as that is all the nhs gives us, but can be bought in a range of colours! my loss is - 110dB.
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Thanks everyone for the responses. Its nice to have an idea of what im lookin at price wise. and yes i am deaf in the left ear. when i was at my pcp yesterday she was checkin my ears and she drew a deep breath and said oh my... wow... u have no eardrum! I have hearing in the right ear but there is some hearing loss from having 4 tympanoplasties and a mastoidectomy when i was a child.