melissa
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Hi,
I have a question for people in the UK who have got a hearing aid through the NHS. Were you offered any choice in models, or colours, of the aid or molds? I am not working at the moment, and I should think going private would cost hundreds of pounds, which I don't have.
I am going for a checkup soon and was wondering if I could get coloured aids or molds. I think it is unlikely though, as I have only had my current aids for 3 years, and they are the BTE kind with a tiny tube so I don't have a mold. They fall out sometimes, especially in windy weather, so I think a skeleton mold might be helpful.
As a child I only ever had 3 models of aids- the first was a black box with padded circles on a headband- I was 6 so no idea what model, and the second and third were Starkey pediatric ITE aids, basically flesh coloured plastic, only made bigger for the last pair as my ears had grown. I found all of them amplified things uncomfortably and things were still muffled; I hated wearing aids and only enjoy the quality of sound in the last 3 years since I got my digital aids.
I had no choice whatsover (actually: I tried on BTEs in an appt when I was younger but was told they didn't help me as much so I should have ITE) and now I see pictures and read of people with funky coloured aids or molds, and I want! I'm 24 but I like to be colourful and would love these; in part as people would see and talk more clearly to me- people can't see my aids, even after I tell them to face me, etc, and they forget...
I have a question for people in the UK who have got a hearing aid through the NHS. Were you offered any choice in models, or colours, of the aid or molds? I am not working at the moment, and I should think going private would cost hundreds of pounds, which I don't have.
I am going for a checkup soon and was wondering if I could get coloured aids or molds. I think it is unlikely though, as I have only had my current aids for 3 years, and they are the BTE kind with a tiny tube so I don't have a mold. They fall out sometimes, especially in windy weather, so I think a skeleton mold might be helpful.
As a child I only ever had 3 models of aids- the first was a black box with padded circles on a headband- I was 6 so no idea what model, and the second and third were Starkey pediatric ITE aids, basically flesh coloured plastic, only made bigger for the last pair as my ears had grown. I found all of them amplified things uncomfortably and things were still muffled; I hated wearing aids and only enjoy the quality of sound in the last 3 years since I got my digital aids.
I had no choice whatsover (actually: I tried on BTEs in an appt when I was younger but was told they didn't help me as much so I should have ITE) and now I see pictures and read of people with funky coloured aids or molds, and I want! I'm 24 but I like to be colourful and would love these; in part as people would see and talk more clearly to me- people can't see my aids, even after I tell them to face me, etc, and they forget...