Category — Hearing Aids

What an amazing time we are living in! Who knew we would be living in an age where we can literally invest in some of the best companies in the world and not break the bank doing it. Who would have thought?

Without a doubt, the most important investment we can make is in ourselves. It may be education or improving our skills up to higher levels so we will be worth more money as employees. According to Better Hearing Institute if you have a hearing loss, you better be investing in getting your hearing corrected. Their study about hearing loss is very revealing to all of us. It tells us how important our hearing is in relationship to how much money we make in the workplace and how hearing better can improve our careers. It was noted that someone with an uncorrected hearing loss on average makes about $1000 a month less when compared with someone who has normal hearing.

If you’ve seen your doctor, have your hearing test results and can follow our on-line cleaning and servicing instructions, a HearPod digital hearing aid may be a great solution for your hearing needs.

Why?  Because HearPod has designed a one-of-a kind fitting system that fits as much as 95 % of patients.  HearPod gives you the option of sending their product back with a silicone mold or an old hearing aid that fits well and they will make a custom shell for you for only $79.00.

Want the highest level of technology available today in a hearing aid starting as low as $395.00?  Would you like it programmed to your hearing prescription?  How about great customer service that provides videos, and instructional manuals showing you how to easily service your own HearPod hearing aids?

I used to wear hearing aids only when I went out. This was to avoid being left out of conversations and to save myself from making embarrassing comments after misunderstanding the direction of conversations.

I know firsthand how frustrating it is to constantly misunderstand what people are saying. I know how awful it is having to ask anyone with a soft voice to please repeat every sentence…just one more time. This gets especially annoying when it’s someone related to you.

I now wear digital behind-the-ear directional hearing aids and love them.

What changed me and how I viewed wearing hearing aids forever, is what my son related to me about what his daughter said to him after she spent a weekend at my house. My 8 year old granddaughter asked her father why I didn’t like her.

An interesting question - especially during this time of economic uncertainty when not hearing well in any work environment could cost you your job. If this question were posed even ten years ago, the response you might have given would likely have been a negative one. You might have said, ‘No, hearing aids are ugly’ or ‘Are you kidding, they make me look old’.

We are seeing this as a time of great perceptional change, especially when it comes to wearing something in our ears. The major factor behind this shift is the popularity of personal communication devices these days. Almost everyone wears a Bluetooth devise, especially when driving, to be able to talk on the phone. Many states are legislating this and I think we all agree it will make our roads much safer. The other personal devices used today (iPods and mp3 players) have made it almost popular to have something in your ear.

You’ve always been a happy, sociable person, but lately you just don’t feel like socializing.

If you have an undiagnosed hearing loss, this has a tremendous impact on your mood and general outlook from day to day. Because you don’t even realize you are losing your hearing, you can’t pinpoint why you no longer want to socialize.

One of the worst feelings in the world is being part of a group…..but not really part of the group. You begin to feel isolated and angry. This anger and frustration tends to spill over to all aspects of your life. You try to place the blame for these feelings on anything but admitting you may be losing your hearing; work, partner or stress.

If you’re a baby boomer under a lot of stress - you are certainly not alone.

Many baby boomers have reached tremendous levels of success in their careers, but typically this responsibility brings a lot of stress with it. Throw an undiagnosed or uncorrected hearing loss into the equation and get ready for the ulcers.

Many symptoms of a hearing loss result in stressful situations - missing important information and making a bad decision, not being able to hear well in group settings such as conferences, hearing the wrong thing and responding inappropriately, declining social invitations due to embarrassment at not being able to hear, co-workers stop having conversations with you because they become frustrated at having to repeat everything, developing anger at those same co-workers…and the list could go on and on.

With age comes a lower level of tolerance for many people and nothing contributes to those low tolerance levels quite like an undiagnosed hearing loss. When you lose your ability to hear and do not get it corrected with a hearing aid, you begin to lose not only one of your senses, but you lose your sense of who you are.

You no longer have any confidence that you can follow a conversation in a group setting – there goes your social skills.

The dialogue in the movie theater is distorted – there goes your outing to the movies with friends and loved ones.

It’s a beautiful sunny day and you’re driving along, minding your own business when suddenly a car backs out of a driveway right in front of you but you don’t have time to react because your view was blocked by a cube van parked at the curb. You shout to your passenger, “Did you see that? Why didn’t you warn me?”

Your passenger looks at you and you realize that they did warn you but you didn’t hear them.

Maybe you have been slowly losing your hearing or your doctor hasn’t diagnosed your hearing loss yet. In any case, a hearing aid could have prevented this accident or one much worse where someone could have been hurt very badly.

One of the side effects of someone who has a hearing loss and doesn’t get it corrected with a hearing aid is a loss of Self-Esteem.

Imagine you have a hearing loss and you have been guessing and getting it wrong when engaging in conversations.  How long would it take making poor or wrong decisions based on information you thought you heard correctly however you actually didn’t get it right?

How would you feel if someone you’re close to said something to you and because of misunderstanding on your part you felt upset, mad or a deep hurt?  What if people stop having conversations with you because of the effort they have to go thru to get you to understand correctly what they are talking about?  How would that make you feel about them?

 Do you want a life changing experience? 

Well if you have a hearing loss get a hearing aid that can do a good job for your hearing loss and look out.  You and those close to you won’t believe it.

My grandfather who was in his late seventies was one of the first people I fit hearing aids on.  I have fit my father, mother and sister with hearing aids.  I wear hearing aids myself.  I am speaking from my experience with my family and helping thousands of patients.

“I got my life back.” I’ve been told this more times than I can count.

Don’t be skeptical!  Advanced digital hearing aids can provide amazing natural hearing that you will really want to put on every morning.