Rechargeable vs non rechargeable hearing aids

@Baltazard : NOTHING has escalated … can we just move on past this , please?

Yep, agreed. Sorry I brought it up.

I agree with those who say there is no “right” answer to this question.

I wear Phonak P90 in my left ear and a Phonak CROS in the deaf right ear. I am really deaf without my aids. I even have some problems with my aids. I tried the rechargeable and took them back and got replaceable battery aids. Here are my two main reasons:

1. I have a CROS aid which means they stream all the time. I tried the rechargeable and the charge lasted only 12-14 hours because of the constant steaming to the CROS aid. Put them in at 7am and they were dead by 9pm. That is just not long enough.

2. I’m old and worry about emergency situations. If I had to be admitted to a hospital or needed surgery, I can easily change batteries in a minute or two to be able to communicate with the staff. Or even wear the aids all night. (I ran into this problem taking care of my late husband.)

I would have loved to not need to buy and replace 4 batteries a week, but it just was not practical for me.

I did too when I had hearing aids that used disposable batteries. But I was always forgetting about them unless I was out away from home or didn’t have my to go backpack with me.
But now that I have rechargeable hearing aids I enjoy the freedom of not worrying about the batteries going dead while I am in a meeting, in a lecture or out with friends and family, it is truly a feeling of freedom. But I do keep a togo backpack that has everything i need in case I have to go somewhere in a rush that may keep me overnight. It is something I had to do when I was in the military and I have kept doing it every since and it has proven it’s usefulness many times over the years. I make it a point once a week to double check it to make sure the backup battery packs are still charged and I have a fresh change of clothes, and of course it contains chargers and cables for my devices.