Why do you feel you need back up hearing aids - if you do?

Expect the unexpected.

I currently wear Phonak Pico Forte and have done for 30 years since I was 6, so unfortunately I’m a audiologists worse nightmare that can not adjust to a digital hearing aid, because my expectations and standards is stubborn and wanting exact same hearing and experience as the hearing aids I wear now, plus my brain is trained to hear this way after all those years, so I have Phonak Naida battery digitals that I’ve not even worn yet, still waiting on my bloody moulds to be adjusting to fit the hooks. So that’s where I’m at right now.

Do they not whistle when you are resting on the pillow or anything, I never wear mine during sleep time

I think my Audiogram is worse then yours and yet I hear music when I wear headphones without hearing aids, granted it needs turning up full volume but I hear it, so I’m surprised you can’t

Yes, things may happen during the night and may be dangerous not to hear. For example, an alarm was sounding in the basement (smoke alarm battery, not real danger) but only my husband heard it, when i was not wearing HA at night. Somebody must invent a pillow for HA wearers that slep on their sides!

HMMM, you may have a point. It’s possible I could hear with headphones and volume cranked up, but at a lower volume I get superb music streaming via my Android phone - with no distortion and no one nearby getting blasted with my music. Maybe that’s the benefit of the HA speakers seated in my ear canal?

Luckily I do have smoke alarm fitted in my room which I can hear when it’s been tested. But yes there’s definitely a market to invent something of that kind surely haha

Perhaps 25 years ago, here in the UK, these inventions were already created… I had a pager, for the door bell, smoke alarm, telephone, it vibrated, flashed, or emitted a loud noise, or all 3 alarms simultaneously… It lit up a feature telling you what alarm went off, it could also be synced with a baby monitor, the pager worked via FM… It was belt worn! When you went to bed, you inserted the pager into your bedside alarm, which had a vibrating pillow shaker, or it flashed, or emitted a loud alarm noise, that would waken the dead! You could also get the full works of all 3 alarms!These environmental aids, have been out for many years, they’ll be pretty advanced nowadays, I would imagine? Cheers Kev

I can’t find anything like that here. I have things like Ring cam, Alexa, etc, but at best they produce a sound or description to my hearing aids via my iPhone. When I sleep, I turn the iPhone off. And I can only connect it to ine set of HA.

Hello @nessun. You have to search for Deaf service suppliers, or Deaf environmental aids, or combinations of these, below is a link to a friend of mines Website “Steve Smith” is the owner, now Steve is an awful fine lad, a Level 3 signer in BSL, but nothing is ever too much trouble, and so laid back he is borderline horizontal… His site, will give you some idea of the Deaf environmental aids, that are currently available… Cheers Kev

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