On the Road Again!

I cancelled the appointment with Hidden Hearing a few weeks ago. When I was there the last time, the hearing test pretty much proved that my right ear is almost useless.  Their idea was a cross over system that would mean an aid in my right ear would connect by Bluetooth to another in my left ear and trick my brain into thinking I was hearing through both ears.   At £3500 it's a lot of money when my right ear would still be useless. On June 3rd I had an audiology appointment at the William Harvey. I last had an NHS test in 2021.  The audiologist showed me the graphs for both ears. The right showed the same drop off as Hidden Hearing. She also said that the aid I had was a waste of time and shouldn't have been prescribed at all. Imagine a line on the graph that looks like a side view of a ski jump.... Only certain frequencies make it through. When I listen music with my pods or full over ear cans, barely anything can be heard through the right, although it...

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 chan...