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Right now since they are done in extremely small numbers they are very expensive, think I was told £20,000GBP each side. They will always be more expensive than hearing aids because there is a surgery involved and surgery has costs - anaesthetics, surgeons, aneasthesiologist, theater, etc. Plus...

How much does that cost? I'm getting a pair that I'd love to change the colour on them if I can afford it. It'll be well cheaper than changing the hearing aids anyway!

They do nothing. You fill in a detailed report and they send you an email back days later (when the listing has closed) telling you that if items are stolen from you personally call the police. If you know them to be stolen property but they aren't your property then that's none of your...

If a beige hearing aid makes you keep it in the box and a purple one makes you wear it on your ear then yes. This is often a problem, people don't want to wear ugly hearing aids, specially children and teens. Doesn't matter what you spend on a hearing aid for your kids if they pull them the...

They are not a clinicially significant minority, though is what I mean. When you are trying to make generalisations about something on a global perspective you need thousands if not tens of thousands of people to be surveyed in a routine manner and all data fed back for analysis to a single...

O/T warning but actually this is very common also, perhaps even more common than not allowing dhh kids access to other communication methods. Walking is the supreme and it's "better" if you walk 3 steps a day and then you can't do anything else because it will stop you becoming "dependent on" a...

Your location is listed as Italy so you can definitely get a delivery from UK company Connevans Stetoclip hearing aid listeners - connevans.co.uk but no idea if that is the most economical way to buy one and if there is anyone closer to you, I'd have thought you could get one through an...

One could also call this prudent living. Our house is a box, its mortgage was barely 1.2 times our joint income and were constantly pestered with offers to increase our borrowing to spend it on all sorts of things and we refused everything. As it turns out that was a great decision because I...

This is one reason my daughter ended up not getting fitted. She is unco-operative during testing, her ear structure is not suitable for ABR testing and she is very difficult to distract. They cannot be sure whether she is hearing a sound and is not interested enough to be distracted by it or if...

Also figured I'd ask if you have been given listening tubes for your son's hearing aids. I thought that was an absolute given for paediatric fittings, but I am surprised to find more and more people who have never been given a listening set and hadn't realised you could even do that. They cost...

It's complicated by the difference in legal systems, we'd have to hire two of everything (solicitor, surveyor) but the main thing is that all home sales are final in Scotland but purchases and sales are NOT final in England so we could find ourselves legally bound to be out of our house but with...

Particularly likely to change when someone has been in the cochlear messing about with it! :lol:

Again the "sweep it under the carpet" community is not represented there. We will probably never know what the size of that community is, and it's probably a diminishing proportion of CI users in recent years as the realities are more widely circulated. In the early days of "miracle implant...

They wouldn't have me, I'm too sick and expensive and could never get insurance, I'm just interested cos so much of my TV over here is based on this cultural phenomenon of "when I get my taxes back" and I couldn't figure out how come everyone always seemed to be owed taxes. Most working people...

Wow, so that's a variable rate and you get a choice? In the UK every employee's tax is deducted from paychecks according to a tax code which is given to you by the equivalent of the IRS and in which you have no say. I cannot ask my employer to pay more tax for me so I can have some back later...

Most people who make a prolonged commitment to an environment like AD are people who actively engage with the deaf community. There are many more who shy away from it, try to hide it. I think the magical curative device phenomenon is probably more prevalent than people who use a CI as part of a...

I am a current FM user and devotee of them, and I have experience with a modern up to date system, which bear in mind some of the anti-FM posters (by no means all) don't have recent experiences only experiences from school days. I've used FM for 21 years and it has certainly evolved over...

I've been meaning to ask this for ages, and since most people do appear to live in the US I figured it was as good a place as any to ask. I always hear in US shows about people will buy this and that "When they get their taxes back" and I don't quite understand it. In this country taxes are...

Indeed, but they are not Phonak, the information was based entirely on Phonak brand hearing aids using the Phonak specs only, as stated.

Not sure about that because beige is the colour that people think makes them look old! Most older folks buying their own here seem to take silver to match hair rather than to "match" (ha ha) skin. Is anyone that colour who doesn't have serious liver disease?