I've had trouble with my ears all my life, especially my right ear which I had 11 or 13 operations on - I cannot recall now other than being very upset as a child about it culminating when I was around 19 with a Mastoidectomy which proved to be quite a painful experience with what I guess were migraine headaches for between 6 and 9 months afterwards.
I managed to perforate the ear drum in a diving accident when I lost pressure. That WAS painful and so I had all sorts of operations and plastic surgery and so on.
So my hearing although not perfect has done pretty well at around 80 to 90% and even a few years ago when I did a test it was still borderline whether I need aids or not.
I did an online test and it concluded that I need to have a think about aids now and so I purchased a rather nice looking set from Amazon with great reviews. I had a small amplifier before just for my right ear but it was quite loud and didn't do what I needed which was loud room work. I can hear just fine normally but in a room full of people and also these days where there is hard finishes and echos, I struggle.
I've only warn these a couple of times, goodness me, the difference is amazing. It actually feels too much but we will see when I next go out how they actually fare. I can hear myself breathing, rustling clothes and noises that I wouldn't normally hear at all. I guess we grow deaf over time and I've managed to hold out until my late 60s so that's kind of OK especially as I was in the building trade when younger and I loved my loud music too.
I was very surprised quite what a difference these made and so I'm hoping that I will be able to get a bit more out of going out but I just need to turn them to minimum as they make everything so loud!
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