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Originally posted by V-Tail:
I wear glasses and behind-the-ear hearing aids. Sometimes it takes a bit of fiddling to get everything to fit, but it does work.

I find that the best fit for me is with the eyeglass temples against my skull and the hearing aids outboard of that; you might need to experiment and see what works best for you.

My first set of hearing aids were behind the ear. I was never totally happy with them because they lacked the natural directionality my ears have and the way I've heard sound for most of my life. Then on a particularly hot, humid day, sweat ran down and drowned the one behind my right ear and it died. Tried to dry it out in desiccant, but it was beyond saving.

Got an inspiration and got some ITC hearing aids. Sweat doesn't get down there, and neither does rain. A bonus was that now my hearing directionality was exactly the same as it had been all my life. Much better for me. ITC is all I'll use now. I even use amplified ITC earplugs for shooting (Walker's Silencers).

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Originally posted by Ironbutt:
Over the years my wife has gotten used to talking loudly when talking to me. Even so, most of our conversations consist of me yelling, "WHAT?", while she's mumbling something or other to me from another room.

Or starting a sentence when she is in the same room, and then continuing to talk while walking away. WHAT?

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Originally posted by Mboroman:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
I find that the best fit for me is with the eyeglass temples against my skull and the hearing aids outboard of that; you might need to experiment and see what works best for you.

I wear glasses and I have my hearing aids in the same location as V-Tail. Everything seems to work best that way.

That's how I wear mine too. They haven't been a problem for me. My eye Doc. said my frames are good for wearing HA's too.

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Originally posted by henryaz:

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Originally posted by Ironbutt:
Over the years my wife has gotten used to talking loudly when talking to me. Even so, most of our conversations consist of me yelling, "WHAT?", while she's mumbling something or other to me from another room.

Or starting a sentence when she is in the same room, and then continuing to talk while walking away. WHAT?

It's a female thing. Every guy I know says his wife does this same thing.

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Originally posted by Ironbutt:
Even so, most of our conversations consist of me yelling, "WHAT?", while she's mumbling something or other to me from another room.

My wife does the same thing. Often it's we're having a conversation, I think it's done, so I start to walk away. Then, just as I'm out of earshot, "yadda yadda yadda..." *sigh* Walk back. "What?"

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Originally posted by henryaz:
Or starting a sentence when she is in the same room, and then continuing to talk while walking away. WHAT?

Yep, mine does that constantly, or, waits until I leave a room to start a conversation... must be a wimmen thang

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:

Since we're discussing Hearing Aids in this thread, be aware that as of just a month or two ago hearing aids can be sold over the counter, no longer require the services of an audiologist.

While it hasn't had a large impact on the market yet, I'm pretty confident it'll drive the price down to the $700.00/$1,500.00 range in the near future.

Costco has been selling hearing aids in that price range (upper end of the range) for several years, including the services of an audiologist to do the hearing tests and program the aids, along with no-cost cleaning and maintenance after the sale.

Just got back to this issue. I went to Costco's website and got prices. Yes, you can get behind the ear hearing aids for those prices, but you can't get ITC ones for that price. They're extremely expensive, around $2,500.00/pair, which is around 2-1/2 times as much as the OTC ITC hearing aids and the price I quoted was for ITC hearing aids.

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