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Hearing Aids and Keeping your Brain working

I have learned a lot the last 6 months about hearing aids. I always thought I could hear well enough but I found that in a restaurant I often couldn't understand what people were saying so instead of embarrassing myself by saying "What?" I would instead just be quiet and pretend I was listening. I was listening and could hear everyone talking but couldn't get the consonants and without the hard sounds what people are saying mostly sounds like another language. Then I was in traffic school and a guy there wore hearing aids so after the school was over I asked him about them. He said, "These are my wife's hearing aids." I thought this was a kind of funny statement. He said, "I only wear them to make her happy." So, I went home and talked to my wife and laughed about what he had told me. Later that week both my biological daughters and my wife ganged up on me and told me I had to get hearing aids. I didn't like the idea at all but with three women insisting on it I was between a rock and a hard place. So, I went with my older daughter. The man there said I had perfect hearing in the lower 80% of ranges but that I couldn't hear understand women's voices or things higher than a woman voice either barely at all. Some men would say this is wonderful. But he also told me something ominous. He said, "The problem is not that they can't fix hearing it is that after a certain point they can't fix brains that stop recognizing certain sounds. At that point a person would be deaf not because they couldn't get their hearing fixed but because the brain no longer would distinguish hearing sounds. He said the other problem is that going deaf in this way is also associated with some aspects of senile dementia if it is left untreated and that one starts to withdraw after a while of saying, "What?" and getting tired of being embarrassed asking this and slowly retreats into their own world more and more. So, he talked me into trying the Lyric hearing aid which is the best and most expensive hearing aid-

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However, this didn't work for me because they shove them in your ear canal and you leave them in 24 hours a day and only hear electronic sounds. After about 12 hours in my ears started to itch and within 18 hours I couldn't sleep and so I pulled them out. However, I found that if I put them a little way in music was wonderful and I cried realizing how much music I was no longer hearing because it was so very beautiful listening this way. However, my claustrophobia from having both whooping cough and childhood epilepsy meant that I was panicking to have something foreign in my ears from the first moment and panicking more from hearing only electronic sounds and no normal ones at all. For me, this would be like only seeing cartoons instead of seeing normal through your eyes. This was just too strange for me. So I finally settled on Starkeys

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