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When you’re renewing a car registration and need the mileage, head out to get it, realize the grass needs mowing, gear up and mow the grass, gear down and go back in, and wonder why the desk light is on.
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06-14-2021, 01:41 PM | #2843 |
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I bought a pair of Phonak hearing aids 6 months ago and I love them. These replaced my 6 year old Oticon Alta's. They have built-in rechargeable batteries and up to 6 Bluetooth pairings. Also, I have much control with a free app that allows me to set them for various environments such as restaurants, etc.
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Phonak has a free app for tinnitus. It doesn't make tinnitus go away. All it does is sort of mask it with background noise. I've had tinnitus since I was in the Army. I don't usually think about it unless someone brings up the the topic. So, I guess I've learned to "tune it out" so to speak.
I did try the various background noises that the app pipes in via Bluetooth and didn't find it to be much of an improvement. I think natural ambient "noises" work just as well.
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My tinnitus is somehow tied to the range of hearing loss I have. Upper freqs, so my ears ring (or whine) all the time at a high pitch like I just came out of a rock concert. The thing about ambient noise with me is crucial because any ambient noise at all makes my ears ring louder. I often sleep with earplugs if it's raining or windy at night because that noise makes them ring louder. Same with flying. I always have to wear earplugs on a flight. I rarely watch TV except for the occasional baseball game, and those I watch with the sound muted. So drowning out the ringing with more noise is not an option.
It was once explained to me that my tinnitus is similar to the phantom pain an amputee feels, even though the foot or limb that "hurts" is no longer there. It's just the brain making up for the loss of sensation from the missing nerves. With my tinnitus, it's my brain making up for the loss of the high frequency noise range. The louder the mid-level and lower frequency noise, the louder my tinnitus gets, as if my brain was trying to match the sound level of the real noise. This makes sense to me because I can clearly hear my ears ringing above any music, not matter how loud the music is playing. I know there are programs that try to induce a noise that cancels out the range of one's tinnitus. I can't think of the term off the top of my head, but basically it's an inverse frequency. It supposedly takes a fair amount of time to dial in the correct frequency. Trial and error, as it were.
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Don't tell my audiologists, but I learned how to clean my ears with Q-tips without touching my eardrums. I do it daily. This reduces problems with my hearing aids plugging up. Also, if I don't keep on it, I will go completely deaf in 6 months or so.
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I don't have a hearing aid but I use Q-tips every day in my ears. It helps, but the doc works best for me.
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No direct compensation, but look at Clinere as a replacement for Q-tips. OHHH, it itches your ear canal SOOO GOOOODDD!!!!
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Those look like some of the tools my doctor uses. Would probably work better than Q-tips. Might get some.
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