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Ugh. I see these things in commercials, they are for mild loss. I think they're aimed at late-deafened people, with slight loss (from age or whatever). People at that loss are not usually considering getting hearing aid, because either they are embarassed at age-hearing loss, or they don't want...

I know! They went through the washer, then took them out, took the batteries out, put them on top of the dehumidifier with the battery drawer open. One of them worked immediately, the other took a little bit. I ended up just taking the tubes off, taking the ear hooks off, taking the molds off...

:ty: I was actually in class when this started happenning, and attempted the "blow the moisture out of the tube" trick. It didn't really work all that well. My hearing aids usually make that little beep-y noise when they're dying, sometimes will just cut the sound off. I only have that little...

I have Phonak BTE Savias, and lately I've noticed that I've got some moisture in the tubing. I have a little cup thing with a scre on lid and a smaller set in removable cup thing that has holes in the bottom like a sieve, and you're supposed to place the aid in the smaller cup, placed in the...

I had a class last year that the DVD, though advertising CC on it, couldn't be accessed. Everyone else would watch it on the huge screen from the projector, while I was left to go sit to the side and look at the downloaded script on the archaeic computer. Then, my teacher figured out he could...

What qualifies you for Voc Rehab?? I actually heard about this a little while ago when some people trying to promote their hearing loss co. or whatever started talking to me, and told me to write that down for when I go to college and get a job and whatnot. It should be fine for me, but this...

I think CI's are fine, and if I had a kid who needed one, I believe I would get them implanted. However, I would also try to teach ASL-- use of simcomm, perhaps? I was taught some ASL as a kid (WAYYY before any signs of hearing loss) because one of my parents majored in deaf ed (coincidence...

My d friend had terps in a class we were in, and, when they were standing up at the front of the room interpreting, they would mouth the words with an english word order, while i believe using asl. Then, when sitting, the terp would usually use SEE, sometimes ASL, between my pidgin attempts at...

Wow! Honestly, for some reason I always associated in-the-ear hearing aids with severe hearing loss? I guess that's why I was confused. At first I thought she just might be vein about it, but then I realized she was talking to me with 2 curlers in her hair :D I also sort of wondered if BTE's...

Ok. So I know this woman who, ever since she got her hearing aids (Bilat digital in-ears) she's been having problems with them. I'm not sure what kind they are exactly, I'll have to ask. The other day she was down to one-- she is pretty bad without them. I don't know her exact loss, though...

I guess I had the typical reaction to getting my hearing aids. "Yeah, nice and all, but everything is SO LOUD. GET THESE PLASTIC THINGS OUT OF MY EARS!" It took a couple months to get used to wearing them, and probably a good 8 months before I wouldn't feel them. That's the weird thing. Now I...

Yhep. It hurts, weird pain putting the earmold in or taking it out. Usually it gets too annoying, I give it 48 hours, then scratch it and it eventually will go away. I <hate> them.

Yeah, why? I'm covered by secondary insurance- still a minor. So these are the last ones that they'll cover.

Right now I have two BTE savias. They're pretty nice, use a boot for the FM. Ideally, I'm looking for a hearing aid compatible with an FM that will be good to use at college. This is the last hearing aid set I'm going to get free through insurance, so I'm looking for something good for college...

I've found that one of the biggest problems with hearing loss isn't missing something said, but not knowing that you've missed something. When a hearing person doesn't understand something, or it's too quiet for them to quite make out, they realize that something's been said, and, using that...

I think Faire Joure was picking up off of what I said, about the lame transitions survey paper they gave to me asking about what life skills I was capable of. The class they thought I should attend (that included learning how to balance a check book) was offered by my high school for everyone...

The hearing support I take is not like a regular class. I go once a week after school, where we talk about how my equipt. is working, how my classes are, tests, quizzes that I'm studying for, and whatever we're working on. This so far includes a weird, more generalized version of a career...

I got my first FM (Black fabric box with receiver/speaker, transmitter had a clip on mic and tucked right in the box) that sat on my desk and made it louder to EVERYONE. I got it in 4th grade, a month or so after I got a bad grade on a book presentation because she told me 20 times to Speak up...

Haha! Often my teachers are more curious about it than the students. The other kids are usually used to it, but there's always that kid that halfway through the year is like "What are you wearing around your neck?" O.o :P I have a teacher who is convinced that covering my mic with his hand...