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@halfpint1,

Please DO NOT pursue hearing aids until you face your anxiety issues, or you will very likely be spending a huge sum of money for devices that will not help you.   

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@1Snickers,

Hearing aids are very helpful to those who have lost the ability to hear due to the most common causes like hypertension, age, viral illness and other illness, exposure, etc.   I agree they can be helpful to those who have tinnitus.

 

My 85 year old mother is wearing a $2500 set of hearing aids; she also has dementia, and is thought to be mid-stage.   Today I witnessed my mother not hear her telephone, nor her beeping smoke alarm (low battery) when she was standing within 3 ft of both.   Just recently I have suspected, mom’s brain receptors are not always picking up the sounds.   She heard the phone on the 2nd ring, and the smoke detector on the 3rd chirp.   Once the brain stops “hearing”, no hearing aid on this earth is going to help.  

 

I strongly feel a focused age based medical assessment with the anxiety issue needs to happen before time and money are wasted with an audiologist.   

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Re: For everyone who asked

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@halfpint1   Show your son and Dr what @RedTop  has advised . It might give them some insight into what you have been telling us, making it a bit easier for them to diagnose your condition properly

 

You might not be remembering all of the things you need to tell your Dr, when you see them. It is nothing to be embarrassed about, lots of people forget things, and your Dr will understand

 

If you don't have a printer, copy it down on a tablet, and then tape it to your fridge,so you will remember to take it to your Dr

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RedTop--I wouldn't wish the sound I hear on anyone. It drives me nuts.

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@RedTop   I agree on the medical assessment before purchasing hearing aids. And I'm aware of the other problems.
  My hearing loss is hereditary. I went with my mother to the audiologist many years ago and watched as she lip read. The Dr said that I probably would have the same type of problem. I didn't believe him. Now it's just like hers. (My son's also). We text each other in restaurants due to noise. 
   At a local hearing meeting the speaker showed smoke alarms. He said the high pitch is a problem for people with hearing loss. They had free alarms that plug in and are a lower pitch. I can hear it well. The beeps when the battery is low on smoke alarms can be a problem with tinnitus. I try to tune out beeps. 
   Today I purchased a new purse and after I went out the door could really hear their alarm that the forgotten tag set off. Guess that's a good thing. 
   I wish you the best in helping your mother, it's not easy!

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@halfpint1    Good to hear from you.  Hope your son can continue to help you keep your computer maintained so you can keep posting with us.  As you know, people here worry about you when we don't hear from you. 

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@halfpint1- Another scorcher today and smoky from all the fires.  You weren't out walking today, were you? Follow your doctors' instructions and you'll be okay.

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Fortunely I do not live in the fire area--Covina is where I am. I am walking usually every day.

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I think she said in another thread that she was diagnosed and told she needing hearing aids and that's why she was asking about them before. But now she says she needs to go back to the doctor. They wont be any help to the noise she hears but she might have a lot of hearing loss and this could improve her quality of life. I think sometimes people don't realize how much of a hearing loss they have. They just get used to it.

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Re: For everyone who asked

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@halfpint1   I am so afraid that you think that getting hearing aids will end the noise that you are hearing.  I don't think it will help that at all.  I wish you would re-read the posts that @RedTop has made in this thread about the noise you are hearing.  It is your anxiety, and you do need to have someone evaluate you for that.  I'm afraid your regular doctor is not able to do it, and the doctors at the walk-in clinic definitely are not able to.  

 

Are you taking your anxiety medicine every day?  You need to do that for a couple of months in order to know if it's helping you.  It doesn't work immediately.  Perhaps your doctor could refer you to a geriatric specialist who could evaluate your problem.

 

As RedTop said, you are not hearing white noise.  White noise is a machine you buy that is white noise (fans, ocean, other sounds) that will drown out the noise you're hearing.

 

I wish you could get an appt. with a geriatric specialist and that your son would go in with you to the appointment.  When you forget what was said (instructions, etc.) he could help you.  I go with my father to every doctor's appointment he has and go in with him.  I've done this since he moved to my town 4 1/2 years ago.  Before he moved here, a friend went with him.


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