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@rasmus_braun

I am extremely grateful for this forum with all of the helpful and supportive people on the list. Thank. you, also for the founders of the forum! And the moderators.

I wouldn’t even want to consider not having this wonderful support and knowledge. No matter what issues I run into (and there seems to be many), there are others who have been through it, or have knowledge about it. Everyone is so willing to lend a hand in this journey, which all of us will go through for the rest of our lives.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, all!!

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@Blue_Pearl1 On behalf of our entire team at Hearing Tracker, thank you for your kind words. We sincerely appreciate your contributions to the forum and hope you’ll continue spending time with us.

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Ditto. And may I add, where HT really shines is for new hearing aid users who many times have no clue how aids work, how much they cost, and how they are properly fitted. It’s nice to have a resource you can go to in the event you need answers fast regarding hearing aids and supporting accessories. That, for the most part, is reliable.

@testing123

@testing123 Yes, and there is a steep learning curve to getting your first aids and getting them optimized.

I had researched hearing aids heavily on and off since 2011, and had a number of attempts to get aids, so I knew a fair amount. But that doesn’t compare with actually buying them and running into so many issues, likely way worse because I didn’t have them for so darned long after I needed them.

Same here. It is extremely hard to get unbiased information on - Google (or ) just sends pages and pages of links from commercial suppliers (which are typically very thin on details, and biased).

This Forum is really the only place where I can get useful information on this topic.

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@rasmus_braun

Wholehearted agree with all the above! This place is like an encyclopedia of knowledge! I appreciate @rasmus_braun and others for their help over the years. Some of them are forum moderators, which isn’t an easy task, plus keeping up with hearing device technology. Thank you all very much!

We often use the words “life saver” to describe people or devices which literally save lives. This forum may not fall strictly into that category. But, certainly it has profoundly enhanced the lives of many. Thanks again to the founders and contributors.

@portage Yes! All of the knowledge and support on this forum keeps us from disappearing into a cone of silence.

A friend, who is a musician, and has severe hearing loss from being in ‘Nam with all of the incredible noise, said that when he takes his out, he is thrown into silence. I experience the same.

It’s incredible how silent my world had become without me knowing it, as it all crept up gradually.

Yes… It is wonderful that the information this forum provides, I go back to “Pre 56k Modem Internet” with my (Sudden Sensory Neural Hearing Loss) a viral flu, I was living on the the very remote Shetland Islands at the time, with absolutely no Audiologists on the Islands, no private or indeed NHS Audiologists worked there, the nearest was Aberdeen, some 14 hours away by boat/ferry, getting any relevant information was extremely difficult, especially as I couldn’t access any, I couldn’t hear, and any of the local Doctors/Physicians were in my opinion, were particularly ignorant about hearing loss, especially profound hearing loss! A massive personal learning curve, it took me 6 months to get a set of hearing aids from Aberdeen, only to be hit by a wall of sound via the old analog aids, took another 6 months to acclimate to the aids! Lost my job because of my hearing loss, depression kicked in, the isolation I felt, was overwhelming, a forum like this would have been a godsend, but alas the Internet was in its infancy, mobile phones (About the size of a brick) were starting to emerge… These were not fun times for me, but I survived and eventually came out the other end a much stronger individual! Problems shared & solved on this forum, helps to elevate the isolation of hearing loss, I am extremely grateful for this forum, been on here for I believe maybe 16 years or so… Thank you all… Cheers Kev :wink:

Agreed. The people on this forum and the people who maintain the infrastructure have made my life much easier.

And thanks, BluePearl, for bringing this up.

Yes! I too feel incredibly grateful to this forum. It’s been a steep learning-curve getting this year and I would have been pretty lost without this forum. I know no other HA info resource that comes close :folded_hands:

It’s a pleasure to find this assistance. I was able to get my wife’s hearing to a reasonable level which Costco failed to do. I now don’t need the noise canceling headphones to watch tv together

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@Sallyinthesky Hear, hear!! (No pun intended!). It’s not surprising that so many people are chiming in with their gratitude for the forum, for the founders, the moderators (no small feat), and for all of the helpful members, who respond to help all of us who are learning the ropes of hearing loss care.

It is no small feat also to find our ways to help ourselves to hear better in spite of the challenges. Without such a forum . . . well, none of us wish to contemplate that.

In reply to @RobHooft

@RobHooft Yes, the forum is a bastion against the almighty profit motive, giving good advice instead of relentless selling. I am sure that many feel the same about the constant bombardment coming from media, now with the addition of .

In reply to @Blue_Pearl1

@kevels55 Wow, what a difficult journey you’ve had to get help with your hearing loss!! What a tale of persistence against all odds! It makes any travails that I and others have undergone pale in comparison. Congratulations for coming out of it with strength and better hearing.

I’m amazed that it took you only 6 months to get used to the wall of sound you encountered with aids, probably because you didn’t turn them down in the process. I’m finding that it is taking me far longer than that. Although, I discovered recently that it was partly because when I got new molds, the fitter forgot to refit the aids!

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Thank you @Blue_Pearl1 for the kind words… looking back, the 6 months to get hearing aids was extremely fast, if you consider, on average today, from referral to an actual appointment for most NHS trusts, will probably be around a year, to get your first appointment? Much depends on your actual loss though… Obviously, with a profound loss, you are prioritised, and 6 months is probably breakneck speed for the NHS :rofl: We humans are fairly resilient & resourceful we adapt to whatever is thrown our way! The audiologist back then told me it would take around 6 months to adapt/acclimate to the aids, I didn’t believe him, but he was 100% correct, analogs are nothing like digital hearing aids, with very few adjustments to fit your actual loss, basically up or down is about your whack! So in loud places you are drowned out by sound, you hear everything, apart from the speaker you want to hear :joy: Back then, I was extremely ignorant, and little did I realise, me getting hearing aids was the easy part of the journey, a few short years later “Meniers Disease” would raise it’s ugly head, and MD was a whole different ball game… Cheers Kev :wink:

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