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#hearingaids

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Will 🏳️‍🌈

For a long time now, I've had bad headaches. I was told for a while that they were simply tension headaches, and the only thing to do was to reduce stress. After reducing stressors dramatically, the headaches still continued.

Since I started using my hearing aids for APD (auditory processing disorder), my headaches have stopped. Apparently I was really straining my brain trying to make sense of the world and the sounds within it.

I'm looking forward to sharing that with my audiologist this afternoon. A nice unexpected win!

#HearingAids#AuditoryProcessingDisorder#Headaches
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Shady Jon

I kinda hit the hearing aid lottery today! My right HA died on Monday. Took it in to my audiologist today to ship off to get fixed. Their office will supply loaners when this happens, and today she said "we just received a brand new model of hearing aids this week. Would you take them as loaners and write a review for us?"

Why yes, I will take these brand new hearing aids out for a test drive, thank you very much!

#hearingLoss#HearingAids
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Mike

@Knitronomicon @Thebratdragon Some local NHS areas have outsourced their basic Audiology testing (& hearing aid provision) to private contractors - for example Specsavers & Boots.

The testing should be the same from NHS or private.

If you do end up going to a private provider on an NHS referral make sure that they don't try to upsell private hearing aids. They are not meant to do this, but frequent comments from around the country show it's a common tactic.

Basic NHS aids (ussually Oticon Engage devices) are fine for most people - and the batteries, spares & servicing are all free from the NHS unlike the private (expensive) devices.

Private hearing aids are often less noticable as they can be 'in the ear' devices and they can have more functions which some people like, but others find confusing.

I've been happily using NHS aids for a lot of years and have no issues with them.

(Note that with Heaing Aids you are entitled to a Disabled Persons Railcard)

#hearingaids#hearingloss
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Mike

I've given up trying get the ASHA function on my phone to play nicely with my hearing aids.
So, I've bought a tiny device that connects my hearing aids to my phone by Bluetooth - and it's amazing. It also works as a directional microphone to supplement my hearing aids.
Not cheap, but it looks like a game changer for me.

Oticon ConnectClip

#hearingloss#HearingAids#bluetooth
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Karsten Johansson

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.

#hearing#hearingaids#oticon
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Jo (dey/they)
Hallo, ich bin Jo, behindert, gehörlos, queer, nonbinär, intersektional gegen Diskriminierung & Rechts, Generation Y, möglicherweise neurodivergent, kreativ, humorvoll, traurig, nachdenklich, umweltbewusst... u.vm.

#🏳️‍⚧️ #🏳️‍🌈
#NoTerfs
#nonbinary #nonbinär #TransNonbinary #nichtbinär #LGBTQIA
#gehörlos #Deaf #🤟 #Hörgeräte #CochleaImplant #hearingAids
#disability #behindert #KeinBockAufNazis #MenschenrechteStattRechteMenschen
Eine weiße Person mit Regenbogenhut und regenbogenbunter Jacke sitzt auf dem Balkon. Das Gesicht ist von der linken Hand verdeckt, die an die Hutkrempe greift.
#menschenrechtestattrechtemenschen
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Juggling With Eggs

‘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

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Hearing Health & Technology Matters · Handling Hearing Loss Frustrations Without Losing Your S**T | Hearing Health & Technology Matters  I’ve had to deal with a few frustrations recently. Our lovely motorhome Thor suffered a series of  indignities in rapid succession – a cracked windshield, me almost setting it on fire (I forgot the eggs boiling on the stove), and a big one – the slide-out wouldn’t slide out. This snafu made me consider how I handle my hearing ...
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Joe

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.

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Mike

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

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.

barakta.org.ukbarakta's Deaf Symbol Things
#deaf#deafcommunity#hearing
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Steven

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).

apple.com/uk/airpods-pro/featu

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

#AirpodsPro
#HearingAids
@siracusa

Apple (United Kingdom)AirPods Pro 2 - Hearing Health Feature AvailabilityHearing Health in AirPods Pro 2 is a Hearing Test, Hearing Aid and Loud Sound Reduction all in one device. See feature availability based on location.
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