OK,,I've been wearing the OVER the ear Hearing Aids  for a long while and they are a PITA as the temples on my glasses tend to always try to push the thing off my ears,,,!!

 What are other's thoughts on these,,,?   TIA,,,

Hubert (Ga)engine7 wrote: So far I have refused to get any but I think I would prefer in the ear. Between jet engines and emergency vehicle sirens my hearing is pretty much shot. If I finally have to get some the VA has some Bluetooth units that I have heard good reports from.

 Hubert, I've had mine for about two years now and they're over the ear and have no trouble with them I also wear glasses, love the Bluetooth for talking on the phone (calls come thru the hearing aids, the only trouble I've with them is in a crowd. Mine are Phonak Aud'eo P-RL and are made by Sonova out of Switzerland.

So you are hearing crickets in the fence-rows even when there ain't any crickets...

I have heard them since my childhood = never ending, day and night; they are always there.

I will forget I am hearing them until someone like you mentions them and right there they are, louder than ever.

A wise old man, lots older than me, said "son, I hate to tell you; but, there's nothing you can do about them; you will hear them right up to your grave"

As for hearing aids --- I love my big Walker Game Ear and the super-turbo options it has that ordinary hearing aids lack.

I got the deluxe version.

I am normally deaf as a post; but, I can tune in that Walker Game Ear and I can hear the neighbors conversations and they are half-a-mile away; I can hear them getting their supper dishes out of the cabinets as clearly as if they were in my house.

As long as they make Walkers, I won't be paying ridiculous money for any other hearing aid.

 Well, I just recently had to get my "Over The Ear" aids adjusted up,,,mine have 3 levels of amplification and had been on the lowest setting. Within each setting, I can adjust up or down with my IPhone when the need arises,,,Both aids are now at the middle setting with lots of room to manually adjust up or down. I have an issue that when you do that,,,Everything else gets louder as well. There are some sounds,,noises I do not care to hear all the time at the amplified rate,,,,I can now whip out my IPhone and reset the volumne pretty quick,,,,

 The Dr tried to adjust the transmitter where the temples on my glasses do not interfere but still get moved off my ears,,,CHIT,,maybe I need to get contacts instead,,,,,

 WOW,,Buckskin,,,you can actually hear your neighbors THAT far away,,,?? I'ma gonna look into the Game Ear,,,,

For people with really good hearing, being able to really also hear all this other unwelcome noise is just the natural way of things.

You either hear or you don't.

I have worn my Walker in our local restaurant a few times, hoping I could hear what the people across the table are saying and so I won't answer stupidly and make them look sideways at me.

I could hear what they were saying alright, but I could also hear everything going on in the kitchen very well.

Normal rattling and clattering around with the dishes sounded like an airplane had crashed in the kitchen.

I had always before been protected from all this painful noise on account of not being able to hear it; now, all of a sudden, I can hear it and don't really want to; but, that's just part of the game........ you either hear or you don't.

I can go without the Walker about my day to day business around the place and the only thing I ever hear are the tailgates on the dump-trucks slamming over at the quarry; it is sort of a status thing to be able to make your tailgate slam loudly many many times as you are easing back out to the highway; someone that really knows how can make it slam eighteen or twenty times before the bed gets down and they hit the highway.

Without the Walker, I never hear a bird or anything.

I can wear the Walker and immediately my silent world has been turned into an Amazon jungle, full of birds and rang-tangs hollering, and the big old Courthouse clock ticking eight miles away.

LOL

Sorry to say, NO!!

Audiologist actually stated most Women's voices as are alarms as found on Washers, Driers, Ovens are roughly in a same range of typical for Males UNABLE to Discern over time!

My loss is all midrange with machine alarms and female voices being almost hidden completely behind my Tinnitus.   Doc said no one has ever put a decent reasoning as to why it occurs, have noted around 70-80% of those with ringing have had head injuries, my own been thumped seemingly forever.  First incidents Grandmother's apartment stairs I would fall down, then the car hit when I was 3.

  Well,, Good Buddy,,,that right there is the best'ist way to keep them from bothering you,,,,

 It just seems,,, as time goes on that those "tinny" sounds are what tend to make me want to not even use the aids,,,anything where metal bumps against glass and similar,,,SO irritating,,,,

A neighbor had tried several hear aids over the years and never really helped. Then finally the type DMiller has.  His wife was telling the world how wonderful it was that he could hear her again. Then somewhere 30 to 60 days later he is not responding to his wife again. Don't know if using that part of the range of hearing wore it out, or if he just did not want listen to his wife anymore. 

I've used both, tried a couple different brands of both.  I dislike the in the ear aids, after a few hours they start itching/hurting.  Those were custom fitted to my ear.  My current over the ears are the best I've had in all the pairs (oticon), they're VA issue.  I wear glasses too.  There is a little, almost like a hair thin silicon retainer that prevents mine from falling off, most the time.  I'm used to it so it doesn't bother me.  I can wear them for 16 hour days or more and they feel natural so I'll never go back to the in the ear type.  YMMV

My only problem with h/aids, it also brings up the back ground noise as well as spoken words.  Sometimes, the increase in back ground noise makes understanding speech harder.  Love the blu-tooth though, I can listen to music from my iphone quite good.  Some, or all of my problem is severe tinnitus, too many years working on loud jet engines and thousands of rounds of ammo barking even with hearing protectors.

The British tv was my complaint too, my audiologist had an article on her board that told why hearing impaired had trouble with British tv and films.  Wish I could find it, explained about microphone placement and the camera angle is such that it makes lip reading difficult.

I too have tinnitus, the hearing aids help mask the locust sounds and as said before, someone mentions it and I hear them right off.

 Well, Avery,,you beat me to the question for the Game Ear,,,,