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Thank you everybody for your input. I now have my hearing "back to normal" so please type quietly until I get use to these...

Another cause of tinnitus, besides:

• Power Tools
• Head Banger Music
• Mother-in-Law*
• Medical Conditions

Medication. Be sure to read every possible side-effect of every possible medication, over-the-counter or 'script. That way you will decide that you don't really need the medication anyway.

*Sorry. That might actually fall under the catagory: Selective Hearing. :rofl:

Don't forget to add loud pipes to that list. :scratch:

Tom, you're darn lucky I didn't take my pipes to Vegas.....it would have been real fun waking YOU up with them Then again, I would have ended up in your pool

Loud Pipes Save Lives

Dean,
What did the hearing Doc say about the loud noise/power tool issue? Do the units you wound up getting compensate automatically for this?

Jim
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Typing quietly from a secure undisclosed location.

I'd ALWAYS prefer my loud pipes to listening to my monster-in-law!!!

"Medication. Be sure to read every possible side-effect of every possible medication, over-the-counter or 'script. That way you will decide that you don't really need the medication anyway."
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Common aspirin will do it!

Dean, just a comment from an X hearing aid repair guy. You gotta want to hear, or you'll get p-o'd and take them off. Like a lot of other things. Stopping smoking as an example. We'd get a user every once in a while that just couldn't cope. Usually it was because they didn't really want to hear what was going on. (Usually their spouse was NOT a nice person.)

Lighteninghorse...I was referring to the side effect are usually worse then the condition you are trying to remedy.

Jim...they compensate, but not fast enough. I provider recommended ear muffs. I am currently out of work, so I have not been in a normal construction environment. I can't wait for my follow-up exam...It "sounds" like the higher frequencies are much "louder" than they should be. But then I can't remember the last time I heard those higher frequencies. :shrug:

The hearing aids I received are the CIC {Completely-in-Canal}. I have been wearing them full time (16 hours a day) and since I normally wear plugs at work and on my motorcycle it is not that difficult to adjust to having something in my ears.

Did they restore my hearing completely? No.
Am I satisfied? Yes.


Five days average battery life...I thought with micro-engineering that a small nuclear powerpack would be available by now.

When I am back in the employment picture I will ask the Safety Officer what they recommend regarding "a noisy environment". That's what they are there for...

I was told not to wear them in a damp environment... Sauna's and Steam Rooms are a no-no.

For some reason electronics are enviromentally sensitive. One of the hardest things is to convince a customer is that their $$$ piece of equipment won't last long if I install it in the attic.

UPDATE TO AN OLD POST

So I have has my hearing aids for almost six years.

I only take them out for sleeping and wet environments. At work I chose to just cover my ears with my hands for short LOUD bursts of noise...taking the time to replace them with earplugs just takes too long (wearing full PPE).

I really love being able to hear again.