Hidden Hearing Test

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Earlier today I went for a free hearing test at Hidden Hearing at the NHS Clinic in Hythe.

I have had a hearing aid in my right ear for around ten years. I tend not to wear it as I find it's useless. All it seems to do is make my ear sweat.

So after talking to other sufferers and my brother, who now wears two, I got around to trying an alternative solution.

The current aid was replaced in 2024 on the NHS. It is as useless as the first one but has Bluetooth to my phone. 

From all the tests where I press a button when I hear a beep, it shows my right ear is pretty much had it. It's not the small perforation in the ear drum, but the inner ear, the cochlea. A hearing aid will be useless.

The left ear is not 100%. Then again I am over 70 years old.

The audiologist suggested I try a solution where the aid in the right ear, Bluetooth to another in the left ear. The cost will be about £3000!! 

Claire basically pushed me into going back to have a demo. I'd rather give the NHS a chance.

When I got back I emailed the NHS Audiology department to see about another appointment to check my left ear. 

Maybe that's all I need if the right is beyond repair?

Thoughts anyone? Feel free to comment with your experience.

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