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    New to aids: Frequencies help.

    I have no idea what "open dome" means, I have a skeleton mold (as called by UK NHS) is this 'open mold'???) However, due to a lot of replies on another website, I have seemed to found the solution, Its to turn the treble to MINIMUM on your cinema home system, and turn up the volume a little with...
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    Do you remember music?

    So far the way my aids are set up, I cannot hear bass in music with the aids in, but can without them. It sounds like an odd thing to say, but unless the bass overpowers the dampening effect from the moulds, I cant hear bass at all. I wear large over ear headphones when listening to music just...
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    New to aids: Frequencies help.

    Okay, first things first, I suffer Recruitment so for a large portion of my life, I have avoided hearing aids. However, I am now trying to use them because apparently they can help better these days in regards to Recruitment (although I know I'll permanently need subtitles for Films/TV all my...
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    What technology do you wish existed but doesn't yet?

    With those that mentioned the flying cars, yes we have them now but regulated so much etc etc expensive etc etc, they will go down in price, yet atm because of regulations, it'll actually be hard to fly one and will have to tell the nearest air traffic control where you are and fight with the...
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    Recruitment and Hearing Aids

    Okay so I'm now being prescribed on the UK NHS with these 'skeleton' moulded hearing aids. I dont get it, why are there these differences? What does the mould do? You'd only hear from the mic input of your aids anyway.
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    How Do You Wake Up For Work?

    I go to sleep holding my mobile, its not ideal, but 98% of the time I'm still holding it when it goes off. I also wear a vibrating watch, I paid £80 for this yet I cannot feel it going off, I had to get it, or I would be fired from work, they deemed I wasnt doing enough to get myself up to work.
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    Recruitment and Hearing Aids

    Okay but how do the make your hearing clearer? how are they beneficial to me?
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    Recruitment and Hearing Aids

    I have Recruitment, and I'm profoundly deaf. I tried the old analogue aids years ago, when I was 6yrs old they were no help for me, you could speak french and the words to me were the same, I could 'hear' you but I cannot understand you as all they did was amplify sounds. My hearing when it...
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    Anyone "recruitment deaf"??

    I'm sorry if this is in the wrong forum. I suffer recruitment deafness, just wanted to know if there was anyone else? As all my life all I've encountered those who were hearing deaf and like the simple touch of turning up the volume or hearing aids would've helped them, but aids and increased...
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    Your Neighborhood

    I live in a flat. Bus Link to town centre every 10 mins. Corner shop open till 10pm every night inc Sundays. Peace! Con's is that its nowhere near to a take-away... probs a good thing actually, otherwise I'd be living on that haha!
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    Hey All

    Hello my name is Dave, just thought I'd Introduce myself here. I'm 22yrs old and have been HoH since birth. Hearing is garbled/fuzzy - Condition is called Recruitment. (Subtitles is a must and simply turning the volume up makes no different whatsoever.) I don't sign, but I can lip-read...
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