New hearing aid day.

Every time, it feels like one hand giveth, and the other hand taketh away.

So I'm playing around figuring where each improvement and each disprovement (?) occurs.

Already found that the speech-in-noise really sucks compared to my old ones. The overall sound is better, though. Also, it hates my cell phone. I'll see if my streamer works with it (which is how I fixed it with my previous pair). But my previous pair had some functionality with my phone. This pair has none.

I'm not very good at remembering to use my hearing aids when we're at home.
But, it is astonishing how much bird song I'm missing out on.
Without them, it's just the distant rumble of the motorway, but with them the birds predominant, and the motorway is a bit less noticeable.

Wearing hearing aids for the first time sounds like excessive foley effects in a movie.
#HearingAids

Fury as Labour MP forced to leave assisted dying committee because her hearing aids needed recharging | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/assisted-dying-bill-hearing-aid-naz-shah-b2717728.html

#Disabled
#HearingAids
#HearingImpaired
#AssistedDying

I have hearing aids in my near-term future to help with my APD (auditory processing disorder). My audiologist highly recommends the Oticon Intent 1's. Anyone have experience with these that you can share?

I'm going to be spending a lot of money to get them, so I want to make sure there are no glaring issues with them.

Thanks!

‘It’s always amazing that family members or close friends still don’t understand why we don’t hear perfectly with hearing aids.

They ask: do you have your things in?

This is very frustrating and, because it’s family, I don’t bother trying to hide it.’

This is me. Daily! The assumption that HAs are a cure, not an adaptive technology.

#Deaf
#HearingAids

https://hearinghealthmatters.org/better-hearing-consumer/2025/handling-hearing-loss-frustrations-without-losing-your-st/?

I review #HearingAids as a community service. I have hearing loss and use aids to hear better. I started doing reviews 7 years ago and it's caught on. I get aids to review and I post them on YouTube. Free reviews, no alliance with the manufacturers. I am surprised they don't take advantage of them...until now. My most recent review was advertised by the maker. It's gotten hundreds of views and over 100 a day since I posted it. Seems just rational, but almost none of them do.

A contact of mine (from #YACF ) has drawn up a webpage as an attempt to explain a few key things about deafness, hearing aids and 'hearing as a deaf person' in the hope it will help deaf and hearing people understand and communicate better and more kindl

https://barakta.org.uk/deaf_tips.shtml

It includes a lot of extremely useful information and advice - give it a read. You don't know when you'll next meet someone with hearing difficulties.

After finally asking my GP for a hearing assessment just before Christmas I was fitted with 2 hearing aids yesterday. I can’t even begin to tell you how much better I can hear. The difference is amazing. #NHS #HearingAids #HearingLoss

Off to get a #hearing check this morning (again) and probably arrange for #hearingaids. Any advice on these is appreciated. I went to one place and they quoted $5K which was crazy. Trying Costco today.

Does anyone else have #Oticon #HearingAids ?

I had to switch back to an iPhone, because the connectivity on my Android was poor and they would restart sometimes twice a day.

Has anyone "solved" this? I need them connected persistently for audio notifications, I often miss the vibrate-only ones.

Fediverse hive mind. Collective wisdom needed. How might one wear both glasses and hearing aids at the same time? #hearingaids

In case it saves someone else a morning of fruitless troubleshooting: looks like Apple have disabled hearing aid usage in the UK for iOS 18.2 (it worked for me in 18.1).

https://www.apple.com/uk/airpods-pro/feature-availability/

Somewhat bemused and frustrated. Bizarrely the main article (ie not the UK specific one, includes UK in the list )

#AirpodsPro
#HearingAids
@siracusa

For some inexplicable reason one of my hearing aids had suddenly started to make my ear itch.
I've just changed the dome to a brand new one but that's not helped at all.
Bodies are curious things!

I got my #CochlearImplant on Xmas Day. My deepest gratitude to my family and friends for their support.

Even with partial healthcare coverage, the high cost of hearing devices is unacceptable. And #HearingAids are not covered at all.

Read full caption on IG: https://go.narada.ca/SM0L or LinkedIn (targetted): https://go.narada.ca/SM0N

DISABLED SHOULDN'T BE EXPENSIVE.
Not everyone have the privilege I have.
So, This. has. to. change.

I wrote an article for @wildlife_sound about hearing loss, wearing hearing aids and how a whole new world of sound opened up to me.

More info about the Wildlife Sound Recording Society here: https://www.wildlife-sound.org/

Ok folks, I've recently discovered I need #HearingAids, and thought it might be helpful to others to share my journey. (Please mute the # if you don't want to see these posts).
I suspected something wasn't right when I realised I was struggling to follow conversations in noisy environments.
There's an app called HearWHO that I tried and it showed that there is an issue. Last week my hearing was properly tested and yep, I'm now booked in for further testing and fitting in the early new year.
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MobileSyrup reports "On December 12, Health Canada approved the Apple AirPods Pro 2 hearing test and hearing aid features for use in Canada. This is the first regulatory hurdle the company needed to cross to bring the hearing aid features to Canada, but there are still some provincial restrictions."
#HearingAids
https://mobilesyrup.com/2024/12/18/airpods-pro-2-hearing-aid-coming-2025/