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My mother has an iPad, we carried a full on conversation yesterday despite her not having her hearing aids in. She asked questions and I texted the answers back. It worked really well. I think I am going to continue doing this. It’s easier than shouting and her reading lips. And by doing this I am sure she knows what I actually said.
I wish that I had tried an amplifier when my mom was living. It would have saved me from screaming so much.
My mom had awful wax buildup in her ears. I had to clean out the buildup on a weekly basis for her to somewhat hear.
Wishing you all the best. It’s a frustrating issue. There were times when I was exhausted from yelling and would write messages for mom to read.
My mother did get pretty good at lip reading. If I faced her and spoke slowly she could read my lips. If I turned my head the other way she would get upset because she couldn’t hear nor read my lips.
He refuses to wear them.
Kids ask me all the time if dad is showing early signs of dementia. Nope, he can't hear. It does make him look 'checked out'.
A lot of friends wear the Costco ones and love them. Plus they can have Costco check and clean them while you're there anyway. With the pricey ones, he has to make an appt and go and he's not going to do that.
I just talk extremely loud and when we're with a group, he kind of checks out.
A lot of hills I'm willing to die on, the hearing aid one? Nope, not going there. He misses 75% of what's being said.
If the aides are new, you always have to go back for a tweek. I sat in on one of my husbands sessions. He went from analog to digital and never liked the digital. We had a new provider and she explained why he did not like digital. Because analog you heard the persons actual voice, digital its more mechanical and takes the brain a couple of weeks to get used to.
Another thing is, they do need cleaning. A small piece of wax in the tubing can keep the person from hearing. A tube not fitting correctly or a mold not fitting correctly can effect the hearing. Batteries die. Wax in her ears will cause a problem. If the aids are older, she may have lost some of her hearing and they need to be adjusted. When digitals are adjusted, its only for so high and so low. If Moms hearing has worsened, this levels will need adjusting.
Make an appointment with her Audiologist and see what the problem is. If Dementia is involved, it may be part of the problem.
His smartphone has a control and alerts when battery is about to run out. Volume adjusts from smart phone, and it also automatically adjusts volume for various conditions, such as In a Group, Watching TV, etc. He hears phone calls directly through his hearing aids, and that works well.
I am the one who maintains them. I don't much like it, but he can't do it anymore. The smartphone makes it possible for me to know when to change the batteries before they are dead. Also I can control the volume from his phone when it seems he isn't hearing well enough.
His doctor instructed that he must have the best hearing aids money can buy in order to avoid loss of cognition. He has that.
Also she may need her ears checked for wax too, the ear canals of people who wear HA's tend to plug up easily.
Wish you good luck. IF you find a magic wand do let us know.
So my advice - try to narrow down what exactly she means. Can she literally hear nothing? Do they hurt her ears? Are they muffled? Does she hear too much? There may be things her doctor can do to help adjust them to work better.
But at the end of the day - my grandmother was told the more you wear them - the better they work. If you just throw them in on occasion - you aren't going to get a lot of benefit out of them, because your body isn't acclimated to them and doesn't respond very well to them and has to adjust every single time like it is the first time.