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    lion's hearing dog australia

    hi all, i was wondering if any of you have a hearing dog? how did the application process etc go for you? i finally decided and i got my mum to ring them and they sent me out the application pack, and i filled it in, got my dr to fill in that bit and my audiologist did a hearing test so i could...
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    American girl doll with hearing aids.

    Yes that's the one I really want in that link, love the pink hearing aids. If I had this as a child it would of been great. I am def going source out getting one somehow. When I have a bit more money that is lol
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    American girl doll with hearing aids.

    Does anybody here live somewhere where they are sold or have one yourself? I am from Australia and really want a doll with the 2 hearing aids fitted. I also found a similar one my twin I think its called. I haven't idea if they post to australia or how much they are I just found it the other...
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    Pulsating tinnitus!

    does anybody here suffer pulsating tinnitus aswell as regular tinnitus? i have the pulsating tinnitus really bad all day today and my one ear that is pretty sore and the worst one, ( this ear had major infection few years ago that led to perforated ear drum. i have always had tinnitus constantly...
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    ears fatiguing

    hi all i was wondering if you have ever noticed that your ears seem to fatigue more in the warmer months? atm it is mid spring and we are going through a heat wave of above average temps in qld australia, i have noticed this week my ears are fatiguing more and by afternoon the tinnitus i have is...
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    What is supposed to be so great about digital hearing aids?

    omg i so agree, each time i have recieved a new pair of digital aids , the audiologist raves about how great the new settings and what not are and how great it will be to gave all these different programs with different settings etc etc. but what they dont get is with every new aid there is a...
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    hearing dogs

    Does anybody here have or had a hearing dog? what degree hearing loss do you have and how do you find it? what are your thoughts on hearing dogs? i have been thinking alot about it lately as i get older, i am almost 29 single, but still living with my mum, i have moderate-severe sensori neural...
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    Getting a fright

    I have moderate to severe hearing loss and although I can hear I rely on lip reading. My pet hate is people walking up behind me or the side of me and suddenly they are right there at your ear saying hello or for example I was at the audiologist today and they came out stood to side of me called...
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    Long resetting hearing aid levels

    i saw my dr today got her to check my ear told her bout the trouble with the settings and my ear being sore ever since, i have fluid behind my ear drums left is worse then right ear. explains all the pain and pressure and not hearing as well.
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    Long resetting hearing aid levels

    It was a really difficult time that's for sure. Gosh you poor thing having two out at once yuk. I really hated it, the worst I think was getting the ent to suction my extremely painful swollen ear, I ended up having to get a local anesthetic injected into the ear canal! Ouch indeed! After that...
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    Long resetting hearing aid levels

    Lol nope can't wear hearing aid in nose. Hope your ear stops paining. I couldn't wear my hearing aid or actually fit it in my ear for 3 months. I wasn't allowed to wear it in the beginning. I lost all hearing it was so badly infected and swollen I had to get it suctioned then I got the rupture...
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    Long resetting hearing aid levels

    I don't have a volume control, I havnt since digital came out ( pouts) I used and abused it lol. I really did have a long day, oops I think I missed words everywhere lol. Pain in ear is from too much noise and then straining over and over in the cycle yesterday, and trying to get used to it...
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    Long resetting hearing aid levels

    That's exactly what happened to me it came back from the factory after being fixed completely different, they never told me. I can never get that right level , I feel I need a half level in between to be right but of course there is no such thing. No one around me except my mum understands what...
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    Long resetting hearing aid levels

    Hi all, I have had the longest, most frustrating day, I got my hearing back last week after it having to be sent away to be repaired, it was without it for 12 days and they replaced the microphone and receiver. I wasn't hearing properly out of it so they fit me in first thing this morn to check...
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    Really really bad luck

    Thanks, gosh that's so awful for your friend I couldn't imagine having both out at the same time aswell as having horrific injuries I hope they at least get his hearing aids back to him ASAP. I almost had 2 broken at same time once but luckily the other went just as I got the first back.
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    Really really bad luck

    I wear 2 hearing aids it's just that without it I hear basically nothing on that side and understanding speech is incredibly difficult, that combined with really bad tinnitus which is hurting. I only have really old heating aids which prob don't work anymore and no moulds for them
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    Really really bad luck

    No my hearing aid wasn't knocked out of my ear, that really sucks your was. I hate careless drivers. Even worse was this dudes attitude, he said oh well these things happen I guess. I will ask if they have a loan hearing aid but they never do because I have in the ear aids now, but surely they...
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    Really really bad luck

    Thanks guys, do you guys have to get your hearing aids sent away to be fixed too? Or do they do it there? When I was young there was this fantastic tech he fixed everything that day if he could and was so great with all us kids inviting us in to watch him talk to us etc, it was a sad day when he...
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    Really really bad luck

    So the past month I have had extreme bad luck, it all started when some idiot failed to stop/give way and crashed into the passenger side if my car, writing it off. I ended up having whiplash in my neck which had also led to extreme pain and stiffness and multitude of others problems in my...
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